Calendar and Events — For Health Professionals

Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Time: 2 to 3 p.m. (Live broadcast from 2 to 3:05 p.m.)
Location: UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center auditorium, 4501 X St., Sacramento

Topic: "The role that tumor-specific expression and intrinsic transactivation of PPARγ play in breast cancer progression"
Speaker: Michael W. Kilgore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology
The Markey Cancer Center
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Keywords: Breast cancer, PPARγ, therapeutic strategy
Hosts: Drs. Colleen Sweeney and Russ Hovey
LIVE BROADCAST LINK

Dates: Monday to Friday, July 22 to July 26, 2013
Locations: Genome Center and Tupper Hall, UC Davis campus

The University of California Davis is offering its 10th annual comprehensive flow cytometry training course. This course offers a comprehensive and affordable instruction in flow cytometry principles and best practices, supplemented with afternoon laboratory sessions that use a variety of cytometers to highlight specific applications and concepts. Special guest speakers will supplement the curriculum, introducing cutting edge applications, novel reagents and exploring flow cytometry history and instrumentation theory.

The course is designed to teach academic researchers, graduate students, staff scientists, industry professionals and principal investigators what flow cytometry is, how flow cytometers work and how to run one, how best to design experiments for the flow cytometer, and what's next in the field of cytometry.  Registration is open to all, with registration fees ranging from $850-$1,100 for the entire week, including lunch each day and an optional "dinner with the instructors."

Lead Instructors:  
Bridget McLaughlin, Technical Director, UC Davis Flow Cytometry Shared Resource
Carol Oxford, Staff Scientist, Bio-Rad Laboratories
Barbara L. Shacklett, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, UC Davis

Guest Lectures:
Holden Maecker, Ph.D., Director, Stanford University Human Immune Monitoring Core
Jolene Bradford, Staff Scientist, Molecular Probes/Life Technologies Cytometry Reagents
Marty Bigos, Director, Stanford Shared Flow Cytometry Laboratory
Nikesh Kotecha, Ph.D., Cytobank software solutions for flow cytometry

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Sponsored by the UC Davis Biotechnology Program and the UC Davis Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

Date: Tuesdays
Time: 12 to 1 p.m.
Location: Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) Building, Room 1477, 2921 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento. Parking and entrance are behind the building.

The Biostatistics drop-in workshop is an opportunity to present biostatistics questions about design, analysis or presentation of your medical research in a friendly, informal setting, and to get referred for additional help as needed. Bring your brown-bag lunch and your biostatistics analysis and design questions for informal discussion!

Contact: E-mail Sandra Taylor at to confirm attendance and to allow adequate time for your questions.