Agenda

SoCal Flow Summit 2025

April 7 – 8  2025

Monday April 7, Day 1 – Flow Cytometry Across Scales

8:00 – 8:30 am        Registration / Breakfast

Morning Session

8:30 – 8:35        Opening Remarks, Dequina Nicholas, PhD, UCI, SoCal flow Chair

8:35 – 9:25        Dr. Juliet Emamaullee, USC School of Medicine, “Harnessing systems immunology to reimagine personalized medicine in liver transplant rejection.”

9:25 – 9:40        Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Madison Nguyen, UCI, “Utilizing DRAK2 as an inducer of T Cell differentiation via metabolic reprogramming.”

9:40 – 9:55        Jerry Barnhat, Applications Scientist Manager, Sony Biotechnology Inc.

“FP7000 Spectral Cell Sorter”

9:55 – 10:25        Coffee Break, Vendors and Poster viewing

10:30 – 11:20        Dr. Carrie House, San Diego State University, “Chemotherapy-induced

TWEAK-FN14-NF-kB Signaling promotes integrin aVb3 expression and survival of ovarian

cancer stem-like cells”

11:25 – 12:25         Workshop: Cytek Biosciences, Inc.

 “How to tackle heterogeneous autofluorescence with new tools in SpectroFlo®”

Aric Bitton, Field Application Specialist II

12:25 - 1:25         Lunch, Core Managers Table

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 1:45           Samuel Kim, Dr. Lisa Wagar Lab Cytek Product Talk

                "Immune targets of lipid nanoparticle based mRNA vaccines"

1:45 - 2:00        Aryan Zarrabi, Technical Specialist Attune Flow Cytometers, Thermo

“The Attune Xenith Spectral Flow Cytometer”

2:05 – 3:05        Workshop: Sony Biotechnology, Inc.

“FP7000 Spectral Cell Sorter - Usability and Performance for High-Parameter Applications​”

Jerry Barnhart, Applications Scientist Manager

3:05 – 3:35        Coffee Break, Vendors and Poster viewing

3:40 – 4:00        Business Meeting.

4:00 – 4:50        KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Evan Newell, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Asking T cells about what they see in human cancer and infectious disease

4:50 – 6:30        Happy Hour/Poster Session/Adjourn (posters indoors)

Tuesday April 8, Day 2 – Emerging Topics of Flow Cytometry

8:30 – 9:00        Registration / Breakfast

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:05        Introduction Day 2, Dequina Nicholas, PhD, UCI, SoCal flow Chair

9:05 - 9:55        Dr. Stephen De Rosa, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, “Flow cytometry enabling vaccine development for major global pathogens”.

9:55 – 10:10        Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient: Pascal Naef, UCI, “Type2 innate lymphoid cells fuel breast cancer development by inhibiting anti-cancer immunity.”

10:10 – 10:25        Basile Siewe, VP of Business Development, Curiox Biosystems

Curiox C-FREE™ Pluto Systems: Streamlining Personalized Automation 

10:25 – 10:40        Qianjun Zhang M.Sc. | Cytobank Global Application Manager, Beckman Coulter

                “Seamless Transition from Conventional to Spectral Flow Cytometry: Unlocking Insights

with the CytoFlex mosaic Spectral Detection Module & Advanced Data Analysis”

10:40 – 11:10        Coffee Break with vendor time and poster viewing

11:15 – 11:30        Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient: Liya Xu, USC, “Flow cytometry analysis of aqueous humor extracellular vesicles: toward biomarker discovery for Uveal Melanoma”.

11:30 - 12:15        ASK an EXPERT: Panel Discussion with SoCal’s Flow Cytometry Core Facility Leaders

12:15 – 1:50        Lunch, Trainees Networking

Afternoon Session

1:50 – 2:05        Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Carlos Viesi, UCI, “Deciphering a new

liver-specific endocrine regulator of pancreatic islets”.

2:05 – 2:20        Chloe Smith, Scientific Solutions Manager, BD Bioscience

“See the Unseeable with the FACSDiscover S8 and A8”

2:20 – 3:10        Dr. Yu-Hwa Lo, University of California San Diego, “AI Enabled Image Guided Cell Sorter”.

3:10 – 3:40        Coffee Break with vendor time

3:40 – 4:00         Raffle and Closing remarks