WHAT: The Tenth Annual Clinical Course on Flow and Image Cytometry will be held this year at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, USA. As in past years, the course will include hands-on laboratory work in small groups, expert lectures, and opportunities for informal discussion. Emphasis will be on basic theory as well as its practical application in the clinical laboratory. Topics covered will include:

• leukemia/lymphoma phenotyping;
• platelet and reticulocyte analysis;
• FISH analysis and chromosome painting;
• tumor imaging for DNA, proliferation markers, and hormone receptors;
• multiparameter cell cycle and ploidy analysis;
• quality control and standardization;
• immunodeficiency;
• CD34 stem cell analysis;
• leukocyte functional assays;
• apoptosis;
• transplantation.

WHO: Participating faculty will include Drs. Kenneth Ault, Bruce Bagwell, Nigel Carter, Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, Charles Goolsby, Paul Guyre, James Jacobberger, Norman Levy, Katharine Muirhead, David Murray, Gregory Stelzer, and Carleton Stewart.

The Course will be limited to approximately 40 participants. It is directed at those individuals with some experience in flow or image analysis; participants can expect to gain a broadened understanding of both the theory and practice of clinical cytometry.

WHERE: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, including both Dartmouth Medical School and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, is located on a new campus in Lebanon, New Hampshire, a rural New England town on the Connecticut River. Lectures and laboratories will be held at the Medical Center. Accommodation and social events will make use of the neighboring facilities of historic Dartmouth College.

HOW: Inquiries by e-mail to ClinCourse@Dartmouth.edu;

by FAX to Alice Givan at 603-650-6130;

or by telephone to Deborah Holmes at 603-650-1528.

HOW MUCH: $990 (increasing to $1100 after April 15th) to include course material, dormitory accomodation for 5 nights, 5 breakfasts, 6 lunches, and 4 dinners (including a reception dinner and a lobster bake).

Local Organizing Committee: Dr. Paul Wallace, Dept of Microbiology; Dr. Alice Givan, Dept of Physiology/Englert Cell Analysis Laboratory; Dr. Paul Guyre, Dept of Physiology/Englert Cell Analysis Laboratory.