The Center for Biomedical Engineering is hosting the 32nd Annual Course in Flow Cytometry at the UNM Centennial Engineering Center this week. There are 64 students attending from throughout the U.S. and Canada and as far away as Australia, as well as 12 local students and Post Doctoral Research Associates taking the course as laboratory hosts.
Photo: Professor James Jacobber from Case Western Reserve University teaches students about advanced cell cycle analysis approaches in the Centennial Engineering Auditorium.
Participants are learning about flow cytometry, a technique for rapid analysis of individual biological cells and particles that is used in almost every clinical diagnostic and research laboratory in the world.
The course format includes 34 distinguished members of the flow cytometry research and clinical diagnostics communities that are giving 24 lectures and 14 laboratories. The material covers a wide range of topics, from the engineering, physics and operation of a variety of flow cytometers through applications to basic and clinical research and diagnostics.
Students can apply what they learn in 14 laboratory sessions, using cutting-edge instrumentation provided by many leading flow cytometry companies that have also provided over 20 support personnel for the course.
Sponsors for the course are the National Flow Cytometry Resource at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Verity Software House in Topsham, Maine.
Dr. William Telford of the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute, and long-time instructor in this course feels that, “The facilities for this course at the CBME are simply exquisite and have made for an outstanding experience for the students and the instructors.”
The keynote speaker, Dr. Garry Nolan of Stanford University, will be speaking on “Multiparameter phosphoprotein analysis in single cells by flow cytometry.”
Media Contact: Karen Wentowrth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by kwentworth at June 4, 2009 10:56 AM