New England Cytometry

Hello New England Cytometrists! We are pleased to announce the speaker lineup for NECyto 2026 coming up on November 5th! A full agenda will follow with the order and timing of the talks. Please join us for what is sure to be a fun event!

David Rach, PhD – University of Maryland, Baltimore – “Deciphering the black box: leveraging shared-resource laboratory data to tackle spectral flow cytometry’s quirks”

Gabriel Baretto – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center – “FlowPixel HD: an open-source framework for phenotype classification in imaging flow cytometry”

Sharanya Iyer, Sneha Ranade, and Kathy Daniels Kluepfel – Moderna – “From Tissue to T Cells: Scaling Flow Cytometry Workflows Through Automation”

Soumik Barman, PhD – Boston Children’s Hospital | Harvard Medical School – “Deep Phenomics of Human and NHP-PBMCs using a 28-Color Spectral Flow Cytometry Panel”

Michal Lipinski – Broad Institute -“Spatial Transcriptomics: Measuring Gene Expression Where It Happens”

Bartosz Grzywacz -Medical Director, BIDMC- “TRBC1 / TRBC2 for assessment of T cell clonality – the ‘Kappa / Lambda’ of T cell lymphoma diagnosis.”

Register here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2001066975190
We look forward to seeing you!

NECyto Organizing Committee

We are pleased to announce that registration for our 2026 Fall User Group Meeting is open!

Click here to Register at EventBrite

Please join us on Thursday, November 5 for our annual fall meeting, we will be posting the agenda soon but look forward to some great talks, a vendor fair, and the always popular “Impromptu” BBG following the meeting. Hope to see you there!

Missed the deadline for your poster flash talk abstract? Dont worry! We’ve extended the deadline to September 8th! But get those submissions in and we’ll pick our favorite topics to be presented during the meeting on November 5th. The submission link is https://forms.gle/9TuRzhWJbZ37GPju7

Registration link and agenda still to come, stay in touch for updates!

NECyto organizing committee.

Hello New England Cytometrists! As a followup to our save the date for the Fall Meeting to be held on Thursday, November 5, 2026, we are pleased to announce that this year, we are adding an oft-requested POSTER SESSION! Due to limited space, we will be accepting abstracts until August 31, and will select the top entries to give a flash talk during the meeting. Details and application in this link:
https://forms.gle/9TuRzhWJbZ37GPju7

Stay tuned for the agenda announcement and registration site link, coming soon!

NECyto Organizing Committee

Stealing the message that was sent to the Boston flow email list:

We’re excited to share that NECyto’s 2026 Annual Meeting will be held on November 5th, 2026 at Moderna!

As we begin planning, we would greatly appreciate your input to shape this year’s meeting. Your feedback will help us create an agenda with topics and formats that are most valuable to our community.

Please take a few minutes to complete this short survey:
https://forms.gle/gRnfJ3e9mtjwbiUH9

Thank you in advance for your time and input. We look forward to seeing you in November!

Best,
The NECyto Committee

Only 2 more days until the return of NECyto’s fall meeting! I know you have all been anxiously awaiting the itinerary, you will find it pasted below.
Please note, our hosts have asked that we use the entrance on Fulkerson Street (the star on the map) just around the corner from the Binney Street entrance.

And our itinerary for the day, I look forward to seeing everyone!
–Mike

Hello flow community! I hope everyone had a fun Halloween, only 10 days until NECyto 2025 on Thursday, November 13! I’m pleased to announce our speaker lineup for this year, we will post the agenda and actual order of talks later this week:

Hsiao Hsuan Kuo, Moderna Tx: “Functional Profiling Using High Parameter Spectral Cytometry for Clinical Phase Studies in Vaccine Development”

Daniel Vocelle, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital: “Applications of Imaging Cytometry: From Technology to Discovery”

Spencer Shah, Broad Institute: “Exploring the use of imaging-based flow cytometers for functional genomics”

Mikhail Roshal, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: “Myeloid neoplasms through the lens of high parameter flow cytometry”

Wayne Austin, Beam Tx: “Epitope engineering for in vivo enrichment of gene edited therapies”

To register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/necyto-2025-tickets-1736133153999?aff=oddtdtcreator
We appreciate the hospitality of our hosts, Moderna. There are additional security registration steps required, so please register this week if you can!
All activities for the meeting will be at the Moderna facility at 325 Binney Street, Cambridge MA. Registration and breakfast starts at 8, and we will be heading back to MEX on Main Street, Cambridge, for the “Impromptu BBG” after the meeting.

On behalf of the organizing committee, we hope you can join us, and meet the new committee members!
Mike Waring
President

Another year has passed, and the annual Fall meeting is back! We are all settled into our new spaces, and this years meeting will also be in a new space: the Moderna Facility on Binney Street in Cambridge MA. Join us on November 13th for 5 talks and a vendor fair. We will be releasing the speaker list next week, as we finalize the talk titles.
I was cleaning out some papers and came across the agenda for our “Immunity and Immune Function in AIDS–Cytometric Methods” meeting from October 5, 2004, if you want to see what we were talking about 21 years ago click here!

Registration link is live! Go here to register!:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/necyto-2025-tickets-1736133153999?aff=oddtdtcreator

We also have a few new committee members joining us this year, so we look forward to introducing them. There will be an “Impromptu BBG” after the meeting.

There will also be a “scheduled” BBG on Monday November 3, we hope you will join us for one or both of the upcoming events! Keep an eye on the mailing list for details (you can sign up on the “contact us” page).

Hello New England Cytometry users! I cant believe its been almost a year since the last post here, I had sent out notices on the mailing lists and social media that we would be skipping the fall meeting this year, but never posted it here! We are still getting settled into our new building for the Ragon Institute, and there are lots of changes. We do have an open position in the flow core, there is a technician level job posting here:
https://partners.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=3301915
but we are also considering a more experienced position instead, so if you have 5+ years and would be interested in joining our team, let me know!
Monday October 7 we will have our monthly happy hour (or “BBG”) at MEX in Cambridge (500 Technology Square), across the street from the new building (600 Main Street). I’ll be happy to bring folks over in smaller groups to see the new space. Go to the “Contact us” page for the link to sign up for our distribution list if you arent on it already. Looking forward to seeing some of you soon!
Mike W

A HUGE Thank you to all of the attendees and vendors that joined us on October 12th for our fall meeting! Presentations are posted to the “Meetings” page, and it looked like everyone had a great time at MEX for the happy hour! The hostess said we were a really fun group and they’d be happy to host us again, so thank you everyone for being on your best behavior!

In over eleventy one months of running our social media accounts, I update half of them half as often as I should like, but I hope you like more than half the posts half as well as they deserve! We will try to post more in the coming year. We were thrilled to have Akos bring his camera, and he was busy all day! Enjoy the pictures on Facebook and Instagram, hopefully more to come. If you have any pictures to share, please send them our way or post them to the page!

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https://elist.tufts.edu/sympa/info/hsfc to sign up or check the archives.