Get hands-on, practical experience with a team of expert faculty, at about 1 faculty member for every 5 participants. The small-group format lets you get the information you need and build connections that stay useful when you return to your lab.
01
Instrumentation
- Get hands-on, practical instruction using software that simulates the cytometer in your lab.
- Learn how to optimize instrument set-up and get the same result from multiple instruments.
- Understand compensation and identify ways to set it up properly and monitor it for accuracy.
02
Panel Design and Validation
- Learn how to effectively develop a new multicolor flow cytometric assay.
- Understand the requirements for validation of a new assay.
- Develop effective strategies for ongoing monitoring of quality.
03
Recognizing Normal
- Understand the importance of using a “difference from normal” approach to flow cytometric data.
- Build an effective analysis template that will highlight potential pitfalls and maximize recognition of neoplastic cells.
- Analyze patient data from peripheral blood, bone marrow, and lymph node and become more familiar with normal cells and changes that occur in reactive conditions.
04
Chronic Lymphoid Disorders (B & T)
- Work through real case examples of mature B-cell and T-cell neoplasms.
- Develop an approach to interpretation that maximizes the utility of flow cytometry, while identifying when other ancillary studies are necessary.
- Participants who are relatively new to clinical flow cytometry can focus on recognizing characteristic features of common neoplasms.
- More experienced participants can work through more challenging cases of T-cell lymphoma.
05
Acute Leukemia
- Work through real case examples of acute leukemia, including acute myeloid leukemia, lymphoblastic leukemia, and mixed lineage leukemia.
- Understand the WHO classification of acute leukemia, including 2022 revisions.
- More experienced participants can evaluate specimens for minimal/measurable residual lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia.
06
Troubleshooting in Clinical Flow Cytometry
- Recognize some of the artifacts that might lead to incorrect interpretation of flow cytometric data and learn how to overcome them.