some few places still are open our fifth clinical flow cytometry course from
october 12th to 17th, 1996 (just ahead of the Heidelberg flow meeting, october
17-19). The topics include:
Saturday (starting at noon):
1. Differential Diagnosis of Anemia (combining heme and flow, PNH, MDS)
2. Platelets: Antigens, activation and autoantibodies
Sunday:
3. Immunophenotyping and morphology of leukemia/lymphoma (incl.case discussion)
4. Progenitor cells
Monday:
5. Immunodeficiency and immunoparalysis (phenotype vs function)
NK-assay
6. Multi-Drug-Resistance (immunophenotype vs function, influx vs efflux, Dauno
vs R123)
Tuesday
7. Functional leukocyte subsets (cytoplasmic cytokines)
Lymphocyte activation vs proliferation
8. Apoptosis (Tdt-assay, propidium, annexinV and fas)
Wednesday
9. Phagocytosis and oxidative burst
10. Basophil degranulation (histamin release vs flow)
11. LDL-receptor test (differential diagnosis of familial hypercholesteremia)
12. Flow cytometry of bacteria
Please send or fax your interest to:
C. Thomas Nebe
Inst. for Clinical Chemistry
Klinikum Mannheim
Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3
D-68167 Mannheim, Germany
FAX +49 (0)621 / 383-3819
Phone +49 (0)621 / 383-3485