Thursday November 27th 2003

1. Polychromatic Flow Cytometry

15.00 Introductory Remarks

15.30 Francesco Annunziato- Characteristics
of human T regulatory cells showing CD25 expression

Dept of Internal Medicine,
Section of Immunoallergology and Respiratory
Diseases,
University of Florence,
Florence-50134

16.30 Jan Bayer- Study of quantitative traits by
multiple multi-color flow cytometry

Fondation Jean Dausset - CEPH
27, Rue Juliette Dodu
75010 Paris, France


18.00 Giovanna Borsellino- Digging into the
diversity of lymphocytes with polychromatic flow cytometry

Flow Cytometry Unit
Santa Lucia Foundation Scientific Institute
IRCCS, Rome-00179


19.00 Discussion


Friday November 28th 2003

2. Oncohematology

9.30 Eddy Roosnek- NK receptors on TLGL
and on normal CD8-positive T cells

National Reference Laboratory for
Histocompatibility,
University Hospital,
Geneva, Switzerland


10.30 COFFEE BREAK


11.00 Andy Rawstron- Flow cytometric protein
expression profiling to design Clinically relevant MRD assays

HMDS
Leeds General Infirmary
Leeds LS1 3EX

12.00 Luigi Del Vecchio- Multicolor flow
cytometry characterization of myeloid lineagemalignancies

Division of Hematology,
Cardarelli General Hospital,
Naples 80128

13.00 Discussion


13.30 LUNCH

3. New technologies

15.00 Didier Lecommandeur- Quantum Dot
Nanocrystals As Novel Probes for Cellular Imaging

Vice-President, Business Development
Tebu-bio

16.00 Vasilis Ntziachristos- Bringing in-vitro
assays to life with Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT)

Laboratory for Biooptics and Molecular Imaging
Center for Molecular Imaging Research
Harvard/MGH
Boston, USA

17.00 Discussion


Saturday 29th 2003


4. Digital imaging


9.30 Dan Davis- Imaging NK cell
immunological synapses

Department of Biological Sciences
Sir Alexander Fleming Building
Imperial College of Science, Technology and
Medicine,
London SW7 2AZ, UK.


10.30 COFFEE BREAK


11.00 Mark J. Miller- Multi-photon imaging of
lymphocyte kinetics in situ

Department of Physiology and Biophisics,
University of California,
Irvine, CA 92697


12.00 Michael Dustin - Detection of autoreactive
T cells by digital imaging of the immunological synapse

Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
NY, NY 10016

13.00 Discussion and Concluding Remarks

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Luca Battistini M.D., Ph.D.
Giovanna Borsellino M.D.,Ph.D.
Luigi Del Vecchio M.D.

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