21st Annual Conference of the German Society for Cytometry

Date: Wednesday, 12/Oct/2011
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Toolboxes in Stem Cell Research Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Elmar Endl Keynote Speaker: Oliver Brüstle, Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, University of Bonn, Germany
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Coffee break
3:00pm - 4:30pm	Stem Cells - Cancer - Cancer Stem Cells Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Björn Scheffler Chair: Leoni Kunz-Schughart Keynote Speaker: Malcolm R. Alison, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Coffee break
5:00pm - 6:30pm	Cancer Cells and their Microenvironment Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Simone Diermeier-Daucher Chair: Stephan Schmid Keynote Speakers: Klaus Elenius, MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Finland; Nadia Harbeck, Clinic and Polyclinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Cologne, Germany;
6:30pm - 7:00pm	Coffee break
7:00pm - 10:00pm	Efficient Management of Core Facilities Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Elmar Endl Keynote Speaker: Derek Davies, London Research Institute, UK

Date: Thursday, 13/Oct/2011
9:00am - 10:30am	Nanosensors, Nanoantennas, Nanotools (Cytometry goes Nano reloaded) Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Wolfgang Fritzsche Chair: Ulrike Taylor Keynote Speaker: Wolfgang Parak, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break
11:00am - 12:30pm	Advanced Microscopy Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Thomas Kroneis Chair: Dieter G. Weiss Keynote Speaker: Raluca Niesner, Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum, Berlin, Germany Martin Fuhrmann, German Center for Neuredegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany
12:30pm - 2:30pm	Lunch / Poster Session Poster viewing by poster award commitee will start at 1:00 pm. 1:30pm - 2pm (Lecture Hall) Life Technologies Presentation: “The Attune^® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer – no more either/or - never sacrifice throughput for sensitivity again”
2:30pm - 3:30pm	Micro- and Biotechnology Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Wolfgang Beisker Chair: Lars M. Blank Keynote Speaker: Wilhelm Huck, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Klaus-Goerttler Session Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Hendrik Kortmann Chair: Lars M. Blank Keynote Speaker: Andreas Manz, Korea Institute of Science and Technolgy, Saarbruecken, Germany
5:30pm - 7:00pm	Meeting of DGfZ members
7:00pm - 8:00pm	Break and Departure for the Dinner
8:00pm - 11:59pm	Conference Dinner Brauhaus Machold A very popular and spacious pub built into the rooms of a former brewery protected under the cultural heritage code. Upscale place for young and old and everyone in between. Dress Code: whatever you like

Date: Friday, 14/Oct/2011
9:00am - 10:15am	Innate Immunity Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Ulrich Sack Chair: Frank Schildberg Keynote Speaker: Stefan Bauer, Universität Marburg, Institut für Immunologie, Marburg, Germany
10:15am - 10:30am	Coffee break
10:30am - 11:30am	Special Lecture: Meet the Expert Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Hyun-Dong Chang Keynote Speaker: Garry Nolan, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, CA, USA
11:30am - 12:30pm	Lunch
12:30pm - 2:00pm	The Pathogen and the Host Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Dirk Bumann Chair: Frank Schmidt Keynote Speaker: Ulrich Schaible, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Coffee break
2:30pm - 3:30pm	Cell Signalling Location: Lecture Hall Chair: Hyun-Dong Chang
3:30pm - 4:30pm	Farewell Coffee