Preliminary Program

Plenary Session – Wellington 1

10:50 – 11:00am

Greg Woods
Karen Drysdale

Welcome and Workshop opening

11:00 – 11:40am

Shane Oram

(Miltenyi Biotec)

Advancing flow cytometry with the MACSQuant analyser

11:40 – 12:20pm

Michael Olszowy

(Life Technologies)

Attune acoustic focusing cytometer

12:20 – 1:00pm

Sharon Guffogg and Beata Skiba

(Millennium Science)

FlowSight Cytometry:

High speed image analysis of cells and particles in flow

1:00 – 2:00pm

Lunch – Wellington Foyer

Stream A – Clinical Focused Workshop – Wellington 1

2:00 – 2:30pm

Mark Cozens

History of Flow Cytometry

2:30 – 3:00pm

Anis Larbi

Flow Cytometry Platform at the Singapore Immunology Network

3:00 – 4:00pm

Adam McKinlayand Maree Bagnara

(Beckman Coulter)

8 Colour Clinical Flow Standardisation and MRD

4:00 – 4:30pm

Afternoon Tea

4:30 – 5:00pm

Bill Sewell

How many colours do you need in clinical cytometry?

5:00 – 5:30pm

David Gottlieb

Measuring minimal residual disease in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

Stream B – Research Focused Workshop – Wellington 2

2:00 – 3:00pm

Robert Sleiman

(Beckman Coulter)

High Speed, High Color Six-way Sorting of Circulating Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells and Lymphocyte Subsets

3:00 – 4:00pm

Sach Jayasinghe

Flow cytometry data analysis

4:00 – 4:30pm

Afternoon Tea

4:30 – 5:30pm

Matthew Hsu & Jason Whalley

(Merck Millipore)

Novel solutions for Cell Health Investigation utilizing Guava Flow Cytometer

5:30 – 7:30 pm - SOCIAL FUNCTION – Ice Breaker –
Boardwalk Gallery (see program for details)

Session 1 - Wellington Rooms

Chair : Adrian Smith

8:20– 8:30am

Adrian Smith – AFCG President

Welcome and Meeting Opening

8:30 – 9:00am

David Gottlieb

Cellular therapy for opportunistic infection after haemopoietic stem cell transplantation

9:00 – 9:30am

David Gillis

Minimal residual disease in ALL and AML

9:30 – 9:45am

Vuong Nguyen

Plasma Cell Dyscrasias – Converting from 4 to 8 colour Flow Cytometry

9:45 – 10:00am

Dipti Talaulikar

Lymphocyte sub-populations in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

10:00am –10:30am

Morning tea – Boardwalk Gallery

Session 2 – Wellington Rooms

Chair :

10:30 – 11:15pm

Anis Larbi

T cells or not T cells? The truth about immunosenescence and its clinical relevance

11:15 – 11:45pm

Adam Uldrich

TCR diversity and CD1d-glycolipid antigen recognition.

11:45 – 12:00pm

John Zaunders

Multidimensional Analysis of Complex Flow Cytometry Data Using a Second Order Polynomial Histogram Estimator (SOPHE)

12:00 – 12:30pm

Angus Johnston

Targeted drug delivery: Understanding cellular uptake using imaging flow cytometry.

1:00

Lunch – Boxed Lunch – Boardwalk Gallery

1:15 pm onwards - SOCIAL FUNCTION – Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) (see program for details)
Buses depart from Wellington Entrance 1:15 PM Sharp

6:00 pm onwards – Delegates’ own activities

Session 3 - Wellington Rooms

Chair :

9:00 – 9:30 am

Richard Boyd

The utility of flow cytometry for stem cell characterisation and function.

9:30 – 10:00am

Joy Rathjen

Directing the differentiation of ES cells in culture.

10:00 – 10:30am

Michael Olszowsky

Characterization of human limbal stem cells using acoustic focusing cytometry.

10:30am –11:00am

Morning tea - Boardwalk Gallery

Session 4 – Wellington Rooms

Chair :

11:00 – 11:45am

Justin Taylor

Tracking the development of antigen-specific memory B cells

11:45 – 12:15pm

Lynn Corcoran

A new plasma cell transcription factor that promotes plasma cell differentiation and cell cycle arrest

12:15 – 12:30pm

Jane Hubbard

Breeding Polyploid Acacia mangium for wood production

12:30 – 1:00pm

Shane Oram

TBA

1:00 – 1:30pm

Lunch – Boardwalk Gallery

1:30 – 2:30 Session 5
Poster Session– Boardwalk Gallery

Session 5 – Wellington Rooms

Chair :

2:30 – 3:00pm

Lisa Lincz

Microparticle detection and enumeration

3:00 – 3:15pm

Robert Wadley

Rebuilding one of Australia’s first two Laser Scanning Cytometers: How to benefit from old technology

3:15 – 3:30pm

Robert Salomon

Implementation of a 10-laser fluorescence activated cell sorter

3:30 – 4:00pm

Becton Dickinson

TBA

4:00 –4:30pm

Afternoon tea

Session 6 – Wellington Rooms

Chair :

4:30 – 5:00pm

Brendan McMorran?

Platelets and malaria

5:00 – 5:15pm

Fiona Robins

Autologous stem cell transplantation for multiple sclerosis

5:15 – 5:30pm

Kristin Anderson

In vivo staining reveals unique characteristics of parenchymal CD8 T cells in the lung

5:30 – 5:45pm

Fouziah Alqurni

Cystic fibrosis patients have more activated CD4+ T cells and fewer T regulatory cells than healthy controls

5:45 – 6:00pm

Chuan En Lam

Chemerin-derived peptide reduces bacteria-induced emphysema in mice.

6:00 – 7:00 Delegates’ own activities

7:00 pm onwards - SOCIAL FUNCTION – Conference Dinner –
Revolving Restaurant (see program for details)

Session 7 - Wellington Rooms

Chair :

9:15 – 9:45am

Ben Roediger

Transcription factor Ikaros dictates dendritic cell lineage choice in lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues

9:45 – 10:15am

Heinrich Korner

Cytokines and monocytes: Fatal cutaneous Leishmaniasis in TNF-negative mice

10:15 – 10:30

Jessica Kling

Regulation of the immune response to cutaneous leishmaniasis in gene-deficient mice

10:30am –11:00am

Morning tea – Boardwalk Gallery

Session 8 – Wellington Rooms

Chair :

11:00 – 11:30am

Greg Woods

Devil Facial Tumour Disease

11:30 – 11:45am

Gabriella Brown

Immune responses against Devil Facial Tumour Disease

11:45 – 12:00pm

Terry Pinfold

Investigation of Devil Facial Tumour Disease using a mouse model and flow cytometry

12:00 - 12:30pm

Awards and presentations

12:30 – 1:00pm

Lunch

Session 9 – Wellington Rooms

AGM and Report sessions

1:00 – 2:00pm

AFCG Annual General Meeting

2:00 – 3:00pm

ISAC, AVoCa, Committee Reports