Midlands Innovation Flow Cytometry Meeting 2025

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 2025!

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.

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

9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:30 Welcome

9:45 Session 1

Stuart Astbury (University of Nottingham) - Circulating CD8+ effector memory cells differentiate immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced liver injury from other immune-mediated liver diseases.

Joshua Bray (University of Leicester) - Comparative in vitro efficacy of CD20xCD3 bispecific biosimilar constructs against diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) cell lines with different levels of expression of CD20.

Laura Civolani (University of Warwick) - Flow cytometry analysis of chloroplast shape changes after bacteria infection.

Niga Nawroly (Agilent Technologies) - Spectral Flow Cytometry can be easy: Innovations with Agilent NovoCyte Opteon.

Asha Lad (Cytek) - Bringing you the Capability to Sort the Small Stuff, using FSP tech, with ESP Detection.

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Session 2

Bradley Mason (Loughborough University) - Optimising Synthetic Data Generation to Enhance the Accuracy and Reliability of Flow Cytometry-Based Haematopoietic Stem Cell Enumeration.

Ilinca Patrascan (Imperial College) - Multimodal Exploration of T Cell Fate Decision.

Yasmin Azizbayli (University of Nottingham) - Defining the impact of cigarette smoke extract in mice as a model on immune modulation and reproductive fitness.

Steven Lim (Francis Crick Institute) - Darkness be my friend: When reduced laser power and clever chemistry can improve signal resolution.

Rob Durkin (Beckman Coulter) - FLEXible Flow Solutions Analysis and Sorting of cells and everything smaller than cells.

Sharon Sanderson (Bio-Rad) - Illuminate to identify the dead and dying.

12:30 Lunch, Posters, Exhibition,  Demonstrations & Tours

13:30 Session 3 - Workshop

Antibody validation for flow cytometry, A guide to choosing and using antibodies for flow cytometry.

Workshop leaders: Harvinder Virk and Michael Biddle (University of Leicester)

Antigoni Katsikoudi (ThermoFisher Scientific) - Revolutionising high speed and multidimensional analysis.

Mark Beswick (BD) - Unlock Cellular Secrets Like Never Before: Redefine your research with the BD FACSDiscover™ and Real™ fluorochromes.

Bev Goward (SONY) - Seriously straightforward sorting with Sony Biotechnology.

Yegor Doush (Miltenyi) - MACSQuant Tyto

14:45 Coffee Break

15:00 Keynote Speaker

Carmela de Santo (University of Birmingham) - CAR-T cell adaptation to the tumour microenvironment.

15:45 Concluding Remarks & Prizes

16:00 Reception & Conference Close

Thank you to our Sponsors!