Educational Meetings

PAST EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS OF SYDFLOW

Sydflow was revived after a short period of dormancy in 2009.
Meetings held are shown below.
Over time they were divided into clinical and research topics.


12 May 2009                 Sydflow Revival Meeting

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25 August 2009            Sponsor:  Australian Biosearch

"Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Studies"
Giles Best

“Cell Cytokines in Perinatal Patients”
Vanessa Yenson, Julia Warning

Lyndsay Peters
“Stem Cell Subsets Post Cryopreservation”

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Feb 10 2010                 Sponsor:  BD Biosciences

Howard Shapiro, Harvard University, Boston
"Cytometry in Malaria: There's No Time Like the Present"

Deborah Shapira, Flow Cytometry, CSIRO, North Ryde
"The AVoCA Initiative, AFCG Volunteers for Cell Analysis"
and
"AVOCA work in New Guinea"

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4 May 2010       Sponsor:  Stemcell Technologies

Prof Derek Hart, Anzac Research Institute, Concord
"DC markers and the new human CD141+ blood DC subset"

Susan Smith, St George Hospital, Kogarah
"NK cells and Recurrent Miscarriage"

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10 August 2010

Review: The 25th Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry
Seattle, May 2010

Adrian Smith
Centenary Institute

Chris Brownlee
Garvan Institute

Maggie Wang
Westmead Millennium Institute

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3 May 2011       Sponsor:  HD Scientific Supplies

“Standardisation of Flow- Is it Possible ?”

Dr David Gillis
Pathology Queensland

and

Mary Sartor
Westmead Hospital

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21 February 2012          Vital Diagnostics

Flow Cytometry Research Applications

John Zaunders,
St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research

Adrian Smith
Centenary Institute

Lyndsay Peters
RNSH, Kolling Institute

Robert Salomon
Garvan Institute

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2 April 2012       Sponsor:  Vital Diagnostics

Flow Cytometry Clinical Applications

Aysha Othman
Liverpool Hospital
“Lymphoma & Leukaemia Immunophenotyping”

David Connor
St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research
“Platelet Studies by Flow”

Ross Brown, RPAH
“Red Cell & Other Flow Studies”

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10 July 2012      Sponsor:  Beckman Coulter

Cell Sorting Applications

Robert Salomon, Garvan Institute
“Introduction to Cell Sorting”

Yin Xu,
St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research
“Cell Sorting Applications at St Vincent’s”

Ben Finnin,
Monash University Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
“Functional characterisation of heart, brain, and cancer cells – beyond the sort”

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Tue 14 May 2013      Sponsor:  BD Biosciences

 Clinical Flow Reviews

Sandy Smith,
St Vincent’s Hospital
“2012 ICCS Course & Conference: What do these Americans know?"

Aysha Othman,
Liverpool Hospital
“Diagnosis of TCR gamma/delta T Cell Lymphoma by Flow Cytometry”

Neil McNamara,
Liverpool Hospital
“Monitoring Cytometer Performance”

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Tuesday 18 June 2013     Sponsor:   Bioscientific

Flow Cytometry Research Applications

Thomas Ashhurst
Viral Immunopathology Unit
University of Sydney
“Immunophenotyping cellular infiltration during flavivirus encephalitis at the viral immunology unit/advanced cytometry facility of Sydney University"

Hayley Suen
Royal Prince Alfred  Hospital
“Phosphoflow: Analysis of intracellular signaling proteins by flow”

Phillip Fromm
Dendritic Cell Biology & Therapeutics Group, Anzac Research Institute
University of Sydney, Concord
“The Translation of Dendritic Cell Biology into Clinical Practice”

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Tuesday 17 Sep 2013     Sponsor:   Beckman Coulter

Flow Cytometry Clinical Applications

Unusual Leukaemia Case Studies
Sandy Smith
St Vincent's Hospital
“Euroflow Approach To Leukaemia Diagnosis by Flow Cytometry"

Matthew Powell
Concord Hospital
Case Studies

Neil McNamara,
Liverpool Hospital
Case Studies

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Tuesday 10 December 2013     Sponsor:   Miltenyi Biotech

Flow Cytometry Research Applications

Chris Brownlee
Manager, Flow Cytometry (BRIL)
Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, UNSW
“Research Applications of Flow Cytometry at UNSW "

Chansavath Phetsouphanh
St Vincents Centre for App Med Research

Characterization of transcription factor phenotypes within antigen specific CD4+ T cells using Qualitative Multiplex single-cell  RT-PCR

Laura Cook

St Vincents Centre for App Med Research

“Tracking cell populations within antigen recall responses: A multiplex flow cytometry assay using CFSE-like fluorescent dyes”

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Tuesday 29 Apr 2014

Georgina Clark
Assoc Prof, Senior Research Fellow
ANZAC Research Institute, Concord

and

Derek Hart Prof, Transplantation & Immunotherapy
ANZAC Research Institute, Concord
“The HLDA10 and its Translation into Research and Clinical Practice’

Neil McNamara

Senior Hospital Scientist
Liverpool Hospital
 “ACS (AFCG) Guidelines Review”

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2015  Sydflow Time Out

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Monday 8 Feb 2016     Sponsor:   Miltenyi Biotech

Flow Cytometry Research Applications

Professor David Gottlieb
Program Director, BMT Cell Therapies, Westmead Institute for Medical Research

“Adoptive immunotherapy for infectious and malignant diseases after stem cell transplant”

Dr Heather Medbury
Senior Research Fellow, Vascular Biology Research Centre, Surgery, Westmead Hospital

“Monocyte inflammation: The relationship with cholesterol level”

Dr Fabienne Brilot-Turville
Co-leader, Neuroimmunology Group
The Institute of Neuroscience and Muscle Research, Kid’s Research Institute, The Children’s Hospital Westmead

“Brain, autoantibody and flow cytometry: an unlikely combination”

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Monday 4 April 2016     Sponsor:   BD Biosciences

Flow Cytometry Clinical Applications

Sandy Smith
Senior Scientist, St Vincent’s Hospital
“HLA-B27 by PCR: Is it worth it?”

Daniel Orellana
Senior Scientist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
“Determination of Proliferation Status of Lymphoma Cells by Mulit-parameter Flow Cytometry: Can it be used to categorise aggressiveness?”

Matthew Powell
Senior Scientist, Concord Hospital
“Diagnosis of Low Grade MDS by flow cytometry”

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Monday 30 May 2016       Sponsor:    Beckman Coulter

Flow Cytometry Research Applications

Fabio Luciani
Senior Lecturer, Systems Medicine
Computational Biology, School of Medical Sciences and Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW

“Linking the single cell transcriptome to the surface phenotype in antigen-specific human T cells "

Hayley Suen
Hospital Scientist, Institute of Haematology, RPAH

“Flow goes to new lengths: Measurement of telomere length and telomerase by flow cytometry”

Martina Doblin
Assoc Professor, Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change, UTS

“Micro-CSI: Exploring the ocean microbiome one cell at a time”

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Monday 8 August 2016     Sponsor:    Sysmex Australia

Flow Cytometry Clinical Applications

Mary Sartor
Flow Cytometry,Haematology,
 ICPMR Westmead

Flow Cytometry for Minimal Residual Disease"

Thomas Ashhurst
Discipline of Pathology, Sydney University

“Polychromatic Flow Cytometry ACS Roadshow Review”

Esther Aklilu, Nepean Hospital
Asha Soosapilla  Laverty Pathology
Neil McNamara, Liverpool Hospital

“Near Miss Case Studies

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 Monday 5 June 2017     Sponsor:   Alexion Pharmaceuticals

 Flow Cytometry Clinical Applications

Sandy Smith Senior Scientist, St Vincent’s Hospital
'Polychromatic flow cytometry is more sensitive than microscopy in detecting small monoclonal plasma cell populations”

Michael Wright Hospital Scientist, St George Hospital
CD27 a diagnostic marker in plasma cell dyscrasia

Neil McNamara Senior Scientist, Liverpool Hospital
“In-House IVDs, TGA and Guidelines Update, case point PNH testing”

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 Monday 24 July 2017     Sponsor:   BD Biosciences

 Flow Cytometry Research Applications

 Robert Salomon Technical Director, Garvan Weizman Centre for Cellular Genomics
“Current trends in flow cytometry and single cell transcriptomics"

Phillip Fromm
Senior Hospital Scientist/Research Fellow
Dendritic Cell Biology & Therapeutics Group, Anzac Research Institute, Concord
"Integrating mass and fluorescent cytometry in acute myeloid leukaemia: A rational approach to immune interventions"

Helen McGuire
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Camperdown
“Mass cytometry, a single cell proteomic platform for comprehensive immune analysis; Stories, lessons & opportunities”

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Monday 31 July  2017   Sponsor:   Australasian Cytometry Society

Clinical Case Study Workshop
Liverpool Hospital

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Monday 20 Nov 2017     Sponsor:   Beckman Coulter

Flow Cytometry Research Applications

Stuart Turville
Assoc Professor, Kirby Institute
Screening HIV Envelopes for use in Gene Therapy through the HIV Fusion Assay

David Van Bockel
Senior Research Officer, Kirby Institute
“Translation of an Optimised OX40 Immunoassay to Detect Antigen-Specific CD4+ T Cells”

Simone Rizzetto
PhD Candidate, Kirby Institute
“A Bioinformatics Pipeline for the Integration of Single Cell Transcriptomics with Flow Cytometry Index Sorting”

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Monday 21 May 2018    
Sponsor:  Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Flow Cytometry Clinical Applications

Aysha Othman
Senior Hospital Scientist,
St George Hospital, Kogarah
Review of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria Testing by Flow Cytometry


Jack Pembroke
UNSW Research Student,
St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst
“Flow Cytometry of Myelodysplastic Syndrome – Evaluation of the Ogata Score”



Neil McNamara
Senior Hospital Scientist, Liverpool Hospital
Review of the Australasian Cytometry Society Annual Meeting, Singapore 2017

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Monday 2 July 2018         Sponsor:  Becton Dickinson

Flow Cytometry Research Applications

Presentations by University of Sydney Researchers

Diana Shinko
Investigation of Immune Complexity in Cancer Patients Using Mass Cytometry

“Identifying Human Regulatory B Cells Activated by IL-4 Treated Mast Cells or Their Microvesicles by Mass Cytometry”


Thomas Ashhurst
High-Dimensional Cytometry for Interrogating Immunity and Disease”

Helen McGuire
Mass Cytometry to Explore the Relationship between Poor Sleep Quality and the Immune System in Rio 2016 Olympians

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Monday 8 July  2018             Sponsor:  Australasian Cytometry Society 

Clinical Case Study Workshop
Liverpool Hospital

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Monday 11 March 2019      Sponsor:  Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Flow Cytometry Clinical Applications

Daniel Orellana
Haematology, RPAH
“Achieving Consensus in Reporting:  A PNH Experience”

Neil McNamara
Haematology, Liverpool Hospital
“T  Cell Abnormalities with Eosinophilia and CEL"

Sandy Smith
ICPMR, Westemead
“ACS Annual Conference 2018, Clinical Review”

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Monday 15 July  2019            Sponsor:  ACS

Clinical Case Study Workshop
Liverpool Hospital

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Monday 21 October 2019     Sponsor:  Beckman Coulter

Flow Cytometry Research Applications

Presentations by University of Technology Sydney Researchers

Robert Salomon
Project Manager, Institute of Biomedical Materials and Devices, UTS
"Technology Integration in Cytometry: Past, Present, Future and the Rise of Genomic Cytometry"

Peter Su
Postdoctoral Research Officer, IMBD UTS
"Biophysical Nanotools for Membrane Dynamics"

Kun Xia
Senior Research Officer
Climate Change and Technical Service Unit, UTS
"Flow Applications in Environmental Research."