This will be the first meeting of what will hopefully become an new tradition - an annual event to meet with fellow flow core colleagues from all over europe. The meeting is aimed at all those that run or work in a Flow Cytometry Core Facility and seeks to address common subject matters, themes, and circumstances within the european community. We will focus on new and emerging technologies as well as operational aspects of running, and working in, a core. We will include talks about national cytometry societies, presentation from current core facilities (Crib talks) and also from our industry colleagues (Technobites). The meeting will run over two days, from lunchtime to lunchtime (5 and 6 December 2024). Although in a virtual format, there will be ample time in the programme for discussion and questions from the community. The meeting will be ‘live’ and will not be recorded, it will be unavailable online afterwards.
Scientific Organising Committee:
Charlotte Petersen
Aarhus University
Charlotte heads the FACS Core Facility at Aarhus University in Denmark, which is an open access facility with users from eight different departments as well as private companies. Charlotte teaches flow cytometry for bachelor and master students and co-organizes the bi-annual PhD course in flow cytometry at Aarhus University. Charlotte has been a board member of the Danish Society for Flow Cytometry for 10 years and is currently the treasurer. She is involved in organizing bi-annual flow cytometry meetings in Denmark as well as periodic joint Nordic flow cytometry meetings.
Derek Davies
Derek is an independent Cytometry consultant offering education and training in all forms of cytometry. He was previously the National Science Technology Platform (STP) Training Lead at the Francis Crick Institute in London where his role was to develop Educational and Training courses to support Biomedical Research in the UK and beyond. He co-organises the section’s annual flow cytometry course at the University of York and is active in promotion of cytometry via focussed meetings and other courses. He is one of the principal organisers of the flowcytometryUK annual meeting. Derek is particularly keen to promote cytometry education within the UK and beyond.
Désirée Kunel
Desiree is the Head of the BIH Cytometry Core Facility at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH). The core facility provides service and state-of-the-art equipment for high-parameter single cell analysis in flow and mass cytometry in an academic and translational medical research area.
Desiree has a PhD in Immunology and many years of flow and mass cytometry experience. She is very passionate about new technologies and their integration into the core facility setting.
Desiree is co-organizer of the German Flow Core Summit and the German Mass Cytometry User Forum and is very involved with the flow and mass cytometry community, on a national and international level.
Marjolijn Hameetman
Marjolijn works at the Flow cytometry Core Facility (FCF) of the Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands. The FCF serves over 800 users of which 450 are regular users by offering 24 high performing instruments, training, advice and experimental support. In doing so, the FCF delivers state-of-the-art flow cytometry, mass cytometry and cell sorting services.
She joined the FCF in 2017. As operational manager, Marjolijn is at the helm of the day-to-day processes at the FCF, manages her team of six operators. They try to continuously improve processes, aiming for the highest quality possible. Together with her team she accomplished getting awarded the ISAC SRL recognition in 2023.
Marjolijn is a co-organizer of the Dutch Flow Group meeting and is happy to be more involved in the cytometry community to help other core facilities with their challenges.
Marta Monteiro
Marta heads the Flow Cytometry Unit at the Gulbenkian Science Institute in Oeiras, Portugal, which provides support for cell sorting, acquisition and data analysis to the local research community.
Marta has a PhD in Immunology and more than two decades of experience in Flow Cytometry from several European institutions and multiple international projects. She is author of many scientific publications; a technology enthusiast, being co-inventor of a patent that was at the origin of an award-winning entrepreneurship project and the foundation of a start-up; reviewer of scientific journals; co-founder and member of FLxFlow – the Lisbon Flow Cytometry Network; organizer and trainer of numerous Flow Cytometry training events; and collaborating with a company that develops core facility management solutions.
Peter O'Toole
Peter heads the Imaging and Cytometry Labs within the Technology Facility at the University of York which includes an array of confocal microscopes, flow cytometers and electron microscopes. Peter gained his PhD in the Cell Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Essex and has been involved in many aspects of fluorescence imaging. Research is currently focused on both technology and method development of novel probes and imaging modalities.
Peter has ongoing collaborations with many leading microscopy and cytometry companies and his group also provides research support to many academics and commercial organisations. Peter is also heavily involved with teaching microscopy and flow cytometry which includes organising and teaching on both the RMS Light Microscopy Summer School and the RMS Practical Flow Cytometry courses.
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