INVITED SPEAKERS

SUNDAY, 19 MAY, 2013

WALLACE H. COULTER CENTENNIAL LECTURE

9:00 – 10:30        Spatial Systems Biology
Joe Gray, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURES

14:00 – 15:30       Translating Acoustophoretic Cell Handling to Clinical Applications
Thomas Laurell, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Signaling Networks Regulating Cellular Growth and Form
Chris Bakal, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom

Discovery of Small Molecules that Control Cell Differentiation
Petr Bartunek, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic

MONDAY, 20 MAY, 2013

FRONTIERS SESSION 1: Innovation

8:30 – 10:00         Use of Kinetic Imaging Cytometry to Develop Pharmacological Approaches to Cardiac Regeneration and Preservation of Contractile Function
Mark Mercola, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

Non-Genetic Cell Population Heterogeneity: Implications for Cell Differentiation and Cancer Progression
Sui Huang, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA

PLENARY SESSION 1: Immunology

13:30 – 15:00      Image Cytometry of Cell Adhesion
Klaus Ley, La Jolla Insitute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, CA, USA

Single-Cell Approaches to Investigate the Immune Response
Michael Cahalan, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Immune Profiles in the Central Nervous System: What We Know, What We Need to Know, and What it Means
Nancy Monson, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

TUESDAY, 21 MAY, 2013

FRONTIERS SESSION 2: Discovery

8:30 – 10:00        Insights Into the Immune System Via Single Cell Network Profiling: Towards Improved Disease Classification and Therapeutic Selection
  David Spellmeyer, Nodality, South San Francisco, CA, USA

Cell Based Assays in Drug Discovery: Changing the HTS Paradigm
Hakim Djaballah, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

PLENARY SESSION 2: Cancer

13:30 – 15:00      DNA Sequencing Detects Residual Leukemia
Brent Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Quantitative IF - A Molecular Tool for Assay Development and Tissue Quality Assessment in Cancer
Veronique Neumeister, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Tissue Factor Bearing Microparticles Measured by Impedance-Based Flow Cytometry Predict Thrombosis in Cancer Patients
Jeffrey Zwicker, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY, 2013

FRONTIERS SESSION 3: Translation

8:30 – 10:00         In Pursuit of Immune Tolerance
Gerald Nepom, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA

                                Integrating Flow Cytometry and Transcriptomics
Mario Roederer, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

PLENARY SESSION 3: Stem Cells

13:30 – 15:00      Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells in Human Cortical Development and Evolution
Arnold Kriegstein, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, San Francisco, CA, USA

Identification and Targeting of Leukemia Stem Cells
Monica Guzman, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Genomic and Phenotypic Pedigree of Breast Cancer Cell Subsets
Vera Donnenberg, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA