Dear CYTO Virtual Participants:
This year CYTO will take the shape of an interactive forum, a virtual space where the international cytometry community will come together to discuss scientific advancement in single cell-based measurement. The purpose of this four-day meeting is to share the considerable endeavors in advancing cytometry research to address current and future global health and environmental challenges. This will also be an unprecedented congress as it is the first one that will be broadcasted across all time zones.
ISAC seeks presentations on the most innovative research in the biological, life, and physical sciences. We especially encourage submissions from researchers, professors, practitioners, and vendors from all backgrounds related to cytometry.
CYTO has always been a place for connection and facilitating life-long learning. We look forward to reviewing your work and welcoming you to the most exciting cytometry conference in the world.
Sincerely,
Rachel Errington
Program Chair, ISAC President-Elect
Scientific Tutorials
This year Scientific Tutorials will be offered on-demand in the following topics:
PLUS…Meet the Tutor sessions will be scheduled during the conference soft launch on Wednesday, June 2nd and Thursday, June 3rd. More details to follow!
Oral and Poster Abstracts
Oral abstract presentations will be pre-recorded and available on-demand. Attendees and abstract presenters will have the opportunity to engage and discuss the science behind the research through contact forms and one-on-one private chats. Poster presenters have the option to not only present their virtual poster but also upload a short video explaining their studies and participate in one-on-one video chats with attendees.
CYTO Horizon Scans
Scientific communities are the basic units of sustained innovation. ISAC is inspiring, supporting and promoting innovation as an integral part of ISAC’s core mission. This year our CYTO Innovation program continues to build upon its track record of impactful presentations – launching a new offering for attendees – CYTO Horizon Scan. Each Horizon Scan session will feature two speakers at the start of: Monday 7th June (Europe/Africa/Middle East time zones); Wednesday 9th June (Americas time zones); and Thursday 10th June (India/SE Asia/Australasia time zones).
Our six Horizon Scan featured speakers will each present a personal view of future developments in technologies and unmet needs that affect or recruit our discipline – touching upon the changing opportunities for innovation, entrepreneurship, and provision of novel services. We expect the scheduling in a time-zone friendly, regional format will allow for regional perspectives while providing a glimpse of what might be needed, or even how a changing world is shaping, those needs.
The Horizon Scan sessions will have in-session Q&A several follow-on opportunities for attendee interactions to foster an exploration of the challenges raised and prospects going forward. We hope to inform and inspire paths to future success and impact.
So join us and see what others see on the Cytometry Horizon.
Networking
This year we are focusing on networking and interaction. The virtual platform includes modernized networking features such as specified networking rooms, group and private chats, one-on-one video conferencing, and more. We have determined the following networking lounges for you to join in on the most interesting topics to you.
Exhibit Hall
Access to the 3D Exhibit Hall is included in your registration. You can meet one-on-one with exhibitors in a chat room and view new research and technological advancements.
| Monday, June 7 | 12:00 – 7:30 pm Central European Summer time zone (GMT+2) |
| Tuesday, June 8 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Pacific Daylight time zone (GMT-8) |
| Wednesday, June 9 | 8:00 am – 3:30 pm Eastern Daylight time zone (GMT-4) |
| Thursday, June 10 | 7:00 am – 12:30 pm ASEAN Common Time (GMT+8) |
To connect the cytometry community around the world, each day of the four-day conference will be hosted in a different time zone.
Monday, June 7 – Central European Summer Time (GMT+2)
Tuesday, June 8 – Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)
Wednesday, June 9 – Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4)
Thursday, June 10 – ASEAN Common Time (GMT+8)
IMPORTANT: Each day’s time listed on the program correlates to the local time in that specific time zone. Be sure to convert the times listed to your own local time zone for each day of the conference!
Need help figuring out your local time? Use this handy TIME ZONE CONVERTER.
Associate Professor, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Senior Scientist, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinic, Molecular Psychiatry Lab
In recent years, there has been increasing acknowledgement of the important role mental health plays in achieving global development goals, as illustrated by the inclusion of mental health in the Sustainable Development Goals. Depression is one of the leading causes of disability and suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15-29-year-olds. People with severe mental health conditions die prematurely – as much as two decades early – due to preventable physical conditions. Recently, much has been discovered about the link between the immune system and mental health. Likewise, there is increasing evidence that dysbiosis and inflammation of the gut is linked to several mental illnesses, including anxiety and depression. Cytometric technologies, especially flow and mass cytometry, have played a major role in these areas of research and are expected to be instrumental in unraveling the relationship of the microbiome and the immune system with mental health disorders and ultimately lead to better treatment options.
Join one of the following collaborative networking sessions and discuss these topics with your peers.
Head Engineer and Flow Cytometry specialist, Kjetil Tasken group, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University hospital
Assistant Professor in Immunology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach — working at the local, regional, national, and global levels — with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. A recent challenge for both human and animal health is the spread of antimicrobial resistance at an alarming rate. Misuse of antimicrobials for human use and in animal husbandry has driven the increase in antimicrobial resistance, making it more difficult to treat human and animal infections. There is a real concern that in the very near future, antimicrobials will no longer be effective due to resistance. As Stephan Harbarth and colleagues point out in their report Antimicrobial resistance: one world, one fight! it is a global challenge, in which many professionals and even the public have to play a part in fighting.
10X Genomics
Applied Cells
BD Biosciences
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences
Cytek Biosciences Inc.
Sony Biotechnology Inc.
CTO and Co-founder, Ozette Technologies
Postdoctoral Researcher, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research
The root of the word “Cytometry” is two Greek words “Kytos” and “metria”; literally translating as “cell measurement”. As cytometrists, we seek to use technologies and methodologies that allow us to turn our cells in to sets of numbers that hopefully then allow us to accurately describe the biology under investigation. One of the biggest challenges we face is how to deal with such rich data, often composed of 100,000s of single cells and possibly 1000s of individual measurement per cell. Moreover, we are now in the realms of “multi-omics” cytometry approaches as well as technologies that are able to conduct tissue-based spatial analysis adding further layers of complexity. Global initiatives such as the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) are being driven at pace by single cell (cytometry) technologies and are all too aware of the challenges posed by data analysis. Our single cell data however is often part of a much bigger picture where it must be integrated an analysed within the wider context of social, occupational and environmental metrics as well as those of a clinical, biological and behavioral nature. This session at Cyto Virtual Interactive 2021 will focus on enabling and empowering tools for single cell data analysis and we will hear from two leading experts in this field. Please join us for what will be a superb event.
Join one of the following collaborative networking sessions and discuss these topics with your peers.
Professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington
Senior Staff Scientist, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science
Healthier environments could prevent almost one quarter of the global burden of disease. The COVID-19 pandemic is a further reminder of the delicate relationship between people and our planet. Clean air, stable climate, adequate water, sanitation and hygiene, safe use of chemicals, protection from radiation, healthy and safe workplaces, sound agricultural practices, health-supportive cities and built environments, and a preserved nature are all prerequisites for good health.
BD Biosciences
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Cytek Biosciences Inc.
Luminex Corporation
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Lab Manager, Cytometry Shared Resource Laboratory, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Disease, University of Georgia
Senior Researcher, Flow Cytometry Core, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ
The scope of this session is to illustrate the relevance of flow cytometry in trying to understand the biology and interactions of parasites, bacteria, and viruses responsible for tropical diseases including the immunopathogenesis developed by the host and how flow cytometry contributes to bettering our understanding of the immune response in neglected-tropical diseases and to improving treatments.
During the first part of the session, Julie Nelson from the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (USA) will show how flow cytometry is used to develop research tools to study the metabolic and biochemical functions of parasites in their interaction with host cells, to study the immune response to infection and to discover new drugs, assess drug efficacy and drug resistance. Ms. Nelson will use publications from their faculty to highlight the multi-functionality of flow analysis, sorting and imaging to “pursue cutting edge research on tropical and emerging global disease, train students in this field, and effectively tackle global diseases of poverty” (from their mission statement https://ctegd.uga.edu/about/who-we-are/)
Dr. Alvaro Luiz Bertho, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – FioCruz (Brazil), will show some flow cytometry applications in the study of immunopathogenesis of neglected-tropical diseases, such as Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Malaria and Schistosomiasis. Dr. Bertho will illustrate some of the different approaches that they regularly use such as immunological responses, apoptosis, cell cytotoxicity and cellular exhaustion, as well as the contributions of Extracellular Vesicles in the immune response of infected patients.
Join one of the following collaborative networking sessions and discuss these topics with your peers.
Senior Investigator, ImmunoTechnology Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Executive Director, UDIMEB
10X Genomics
Bio-Rad Laboratories
FlowJo, LLC
NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.
Sony Biotechnology Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Professor, University of Western Australia
Professor, Seoul National University
Antimicrobial resistance occurs when pathogens change over time to no longer respond to medicines, making them much harder to treat and fueling the spread of disease. The alarming spread of multi-and pan-resistant bacterial “superbugs”, coupled with antibiotic shortages affecting countries at all stages of development and the paucity of the antimicrobial clinical pipeline have created a global emergency requiring innovative thinking to resolve. Quantitative cell sciences can provide improvements in the sensitivity and rapidity of clinical detection of antimicrobial resistance, help map and even predict of resistance patterns, and inform the development of robust and targeted antimicrobial approaches to meet this global challenge.
Join one of the following collaborative networking sessions and discuss these topics with your peers.
Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Coherent
Immudex
iotaSciences
Tercen Data Analytics
Thermo Fisher Scientific
ISAC invites CYTO attendees from all scientific backgrounds to submit abstracts for consideration at CYTO 2020. If selected, you will have the opportunity to present your latest research and findings in the field of cytometry and network with other presenters from across the globe. Visit our Call for Presentations to learn more about deadlines, topics, and guidelines.
