Want to learn about Flow Cytometry?

Want to see what’s new in the field?

Want to find out about research and facilities within the MI Universities?

Then come along to the Free MI Flow Cytometry Meeting 2024!

This will be an in-person one day conference bringing together academics, local biotech and instrument manufacturers to discuss all things flow cytometry. Come along to learn about the technology, hear something new in the field or present your research.

If you are struggling with the costs of travel for this conference please contact ellen.mcghee@nottingham.ac.uk and we can help co-ordinate lift shares and have a limited travel fund available.

Provisional Programme

9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:30 Welcome

Professor Andrea Cooper Director of Research College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester and Professor Lucy Fairclough Chair of the Midlands Innovation Flow Cytometry Group.

9:45 Session 1

Adam Wright (University of Leicester) - CD4+ and CD8+ type-2 T cells are enriched in sputum of patients with COPD eosinophilic exacerbations.

Rebecca Bignold (Aston University) - CXCL12 inhibitor targets airway remodelling without modulating immune response in allergic asthma.

Laura Bartlett (University of Nottingham) - Chronic exposure to cigarette smoke extract in mice results in systemic immune cell profiles reflective of human chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

SONY Biotechnology - Expanding the possibilities with spectral flow cytometry; from cell sorting to data analysis.

10:45 Coffee Break & Cell Sorter Demonstrations

11:15 Session 2

Christian Thomas (University of Leicester) - Single Cell Sequencing of the Desert locust Auditory Organ.

Une Kontrimaite (University of Nottingham) - Investigating the Impact of Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting on the Metabolome of Glioblastoma Tumoursphere Model.

Rebecca Dale (University of Leicester) - Blood Leukocyte Characterisation in Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis.

BD - BD FACSDiscover™ - S8 Cell Sorter. See what you sort. Sort what you see.

ThermoFisher - Unveiling New Discoveries through Image-Enhanced Flow Cytometry.

BIO-RAD - StarBright Dyes - Simplifying Flow Cytometry with 8-Color No Compensation Panels.

12:30 Lunch, Posters, Exhibition & Cell Sorter Demonstrations

13:30 Session 3

Harry Porter (University of Nottingham) - Analysis of Tumour-Astrocyte Crosstalk in 3D using a Human Brain Specific Extracellular Matrix Hydrogel.

Lewis Yandle (Aston University) - Flow cytometry as a tool to study the physiology of the recombinant yeast, Pichia pastoris: Optimising lipase enzyme expression.

Vipul Batra (University of Nottingham) - Embracing Failure: Insights Gained from Seminal Vesicle Exosome Research Setbacks.

Beckman Coulter - Flow Solutions for Extracellular Vesicle Research.

Cytek Biosciences - Introducing the Cytek Aurora CS new horizons in multidimensional cell sorting.

Standard BioTools - Updates to high dimensional flow cytometry and spatial biology powered by CyTOF.

14:45 Coffee Break

15:00 Keynote Speaker

Dr Peter Cook (University of Exeter) - Aspergillus, asthma and the airway: Why do fungi trigger inflammatory lung diseases?

15:45 Concluding Remarks & Prizes

16:00 Reception & Conference Close

Want to join the exhibition and sponsor this event? Contact Ellen McGhee or David Onion.

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