The 17th annual meeting was held in Regensburg:

We had a successful meeting at the University Hospital of Regensburg from Oct 10th thru Oct 13th 2007. More than 200 international scientists attended the meeting.
Overall the University Hospital turned out as a very appropriate and likewise extraordinarily attractive venue for the DGfZ- and related meetings. Participants appreciated their stay at the beautiful World Heritage Site. Please find here the Resume.

17th annual meeting:

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Abstracts submitted by the early deadline

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17th annual meeting (Regensburg, 2007)

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16th annual meeting (Leipzig, 2006)

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A brief resumee of the 17th meeting held in Regensburg (Oct 10th to 13th 2006)

The 17th annual meeting of our society took place in Regensburg from Oct 10th thru Oct 13th.

More than 200 international scientists found their way to the University Hospital of Regensburg, where the 17th annual meeting took place from Oct. 10th thru Oct 13th 2007. In the capacity of the president of the German Society of Cytometry Gero Brockhoff together with his local crew organized the meeting with traditionally takes place since 1989 the very first time in Regensburg. This year’s scientific program comprised session out of the field of cancer biology, microbiology and biotechnology, nanotechnologies and novel applications, clinical cytometric applications as well as cytometry in plants.
15 international speakers were invited, amongst them Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell, director of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry (Goettingen, Germany). On November 23rd 2006 Professor Stefan Hell was presented with the prestigious German Future Award by Federal President Horst Koehler. This annual technology and innovation award, which was conferred for the tenth time in 2006, is given in recognition of projects that not only have revolutionary implications for science but are also ready for application and marketing. Prof. Hell was the first to find a way of overcoming the 130-year-old Abbe limit in the fluorescence microscope, the most important microscope in biomedical research. Ever since the 17th century the light microscope has been one of the main symbols of scientific progress – particularly in biology and medicine. Harnessing STED (stimulated emission and depletion) microscopy, molecules can now be imaged with far greater definition than before.
It is expected that Hell’s development will have substantial impact in many fields of basic and biomedical research in the near and distant future.
Overall the University Hospital turned out as a very appropriate and likewise extraordinarily attractive venue for the DGfZ- and related meetings. Participants appreciated their stay at the beautiful World Heritage Site.

A brief resumee of the 16th meeting held in Leipzig (Oct 18th to 21st 2006)
(written by Simone Diermeier, Regensburg)

The program and organization committee for the 16th Annual DGfZ congress in Leipzig Germany (18th to 21st Oct) set up a diversified meeting of experts in the field of medicine, cancer biology, and human and environmental biology connected by the common application of flow cytometry and imaging.

Tutorials, key note lectures, and sessions both represented a demanding and interesting  scientific program and reserved extra time for scientific exchange, for talking to industrial exhibitors about their newest highlights, and for meetings among congress participants.

One highlight of the meeting doubtlessly was the highly refreshing and impressive tutorial by Paul Robinson, president of the International Society of Cytometry. He was not talking about scientific or methodical details but stressed the problem in image analysis we are faced with when interpreting the images we see in a microscope. Getting the perspective that different individuals see things differently and that our brain sometimes fools us in what is really there and what we interpret it to be was a precious experience.

The latest technological achievements in the field of in vivo multiphoton microscopy was presented by Peter Friedl from the University of Würzburg in one of the excellent key note lectures of the congress. He showed a high resolution technique that allows to identify the subcellular location of pericellular proteolysis during cell migration. Likewise, J. Wessels from the University Hospital in Göttingen presented advanced non-invasive microscopic imaging techniques for in vivo imaging of whole animals. Defined structures up to a resolution of 500µm such as intra-tumoral cysts were visualized by intravital, confocal and multiphoton microscopy using fluorescence and bioluminescence.

The industry put together an impressive show on latest technical developments. (Below your find a list of industrial exhibitors in previous years). In addition to multi-channel flow cytometric instrumentation highly innovative developments in the field of slide-based analysis were presented. The booths offered the possibility to grab detailed information within communicative and pleasant atmosphere.

Thanks to the organizers for the great congress and to H. Shapiro who not only gave a great key note lecture on the history and the future of cytometry but also took over the entertainment part at the banquette with a live performance of songs on cytometry.

Attila Tarnok and Paul Robinson 2006 in
Leipzig having conversation....
and a bottle of wine :-)