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ISSUE #4 · WEDNESDAY EDITION · ON THE CALENDAR · OCT 14, 2026
Welcome to the Wednesday edition of FlowCytoNews. Wednesday is On the Calendar: meetings, courses, webinars and deadlines for the next two months, each linked to its host page. Monday is The Literature and Friday is Industry Moves. Next week the CYTO 2027 abstract site opens and ASH's advance-registration discount ends, and November is crowded: SITC, NECyto, ESLHO, AAEV and flowcytometryUK fall inside nine days. Tell us what we missed — hit reply.
■ On the Calendar
This week
Valparaíso International Flow Cytometry Workshop (ISAC Live Education) · Oct 13–16 · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile · ISAC listing
7th SINO-US Flow Cytometry Workshop & 8th National Cell Analysis Conference (ISAC Live Education) · Oct 15–18 · China · ISAC listing
CYTO 2027 abstract submission opens · Mon Oct 19 · cytoconference.org
XIII Virtual Prague School on Flow Cytometry · Oct 19–22 · online · applications have closed · ESCCA meetings
Next up
Event | Dates · place | Note |
|---|---|---|
Fri Oct 23, 8:00 am–7:00 pm ET · Wiley, Hoboken, NJ | NY/NJ regional | |
ACS 2026 (Australasian Cytometry Society, 48th) | Oct 25–28 · Roundhouse, UNSW Sydney | Workshop Oct 25 |
CYTO U: "SOULCAP: The Reference Map Cytometry Never Had" — Ryan Brinkman | Thu Oct 29, 12:00–1:00 pm ET · virtual | ISAC webinar |
Tue Nov 3, 4:00–5:00 pm ET · Zoom | Members | |
Nov 4–8 · Phoenix Convention Center | Abstract embargo lifts Nov 3, 9:00 am ET | |
Thu Nov 5 · Moderna, Cambridge, MA | New England regional | |
Nov 5–6 · Pieterskerk, Leiden | EuroFlow | |
CYTO U: NIST consortium on standardizing flow for AI — Paul DeRose, Lili Wang, Yu "Max" Qian | Tue Nov 10, 12:00–1:00 pm ET · virtual | ISAC webinar |
Thu Nov 12, 09:00–17:00 GMT · Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK | RMS | |
Nov 12–15 · Westin Jersey City Newport, NJ | Extracellular vesicles | |
Mon Nov 16, 10:30–17:15 · Denmark | Venue not listed | |
Wed Nov 18, 11:00 am–12:00 pm ET · Zoom | CYTO Innovation Committee | |
Tue Nov 24 · Granada, Spain | Vendor; by invitation | |
1st Mediterranean Meeting on Flow Cytometry (AFC + Iberian Society) | Nov 25–27 · Granada Exhibition and Conference Center | Abstracts closed |
Dec 3–4 · online, free | RMS; for core staff | |
CYTO U: "Beyond Suspension" — Abhishek Koladiya | Tue Dec 8, 3:00–4:00 pm ET · virtual | Spatial + single-cell proteomics |
Dec 12–15 · New Orleans and virtual | MRD and CAR-T sessions |
Further out: CYTO 2027 is Jun 5–9, 2027 in Helsinki, and CYTO 2028 is Jun 24–28, 2028 in Calgary (ISAC). ESCCA 2027 is Sep 8–11, 2027, venue to be announced.
Deadline watch
Deadline | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|
ASH advance-registration discount ends | Wed Oct 21, 11:59 pm PT | |
Keystone early registration: Innate Immunity and T Cells (Banff, Jan 11–14) | Nov 12 | |
ISAC SRL Recognition Program applications | Nov 15 | |
AAI IMMUNOLOGY2027 abstracts (meeting Apr 30–May 4, Los Angeles) | Nov 17 | |
ABRF 2027 abstracts (meeting Apr 4–7, Dallas) | Dec 4 | |
CYTO 2027 abstracts (site opens Oct 19) | Dec 6 | |
ISEV2027 abstracts (meeting May 5–9, Busan) | Jan 11, 2027 | |
ISCT 2027 Toronto abstracts | Jan 14, 2027 |
Just happened
ICCS 2026, Miami (Oct 2–6)
The 41st meeting and course ran at the Hilton Miami Downtown and online. Registrants have session recordings "for 30 days following the meeting", so download what you need by early November. cytometry.org
Award recipients, new officers and the ICCS 2027 dates were not yet posted on the society's site when this went out. We will run them once they are.
Elsewhere
EuroFlow Pre-ESID Flow Cytometry Workshop on inborn errors of immunity ran Tue Oct 13 in Maastricht. EuroFlow
INSERM Workshop 291, "Multiparametric Cytometry Data Analysis", ran Oct 5–7, and the Mediterranean School of Flow Cytometry for Immunology ran Sep 27–Oct 1 in Rhodes. ESCCA listing
CYTO Connect China 2027: ISAC and CSBT announced a one-day workshop plus three-day scientific meeting, to be hosted in Shenzhen; dates to come. ISAC
■ Bench Notes
Write the CYTO 2027 abstract reviewers can score
The CYTO 2027 site opens Oct 19 and closes Dec 6. Abstracts from cores and clinical labs are often method stories, and they lose points for missing the details a reviewer needs to judge them. Before you submit:
Lead with the number. Put the result that matters in the first two sentences: the CV, the limit of detection, the hands-on time saved, the concordance with the reference method.
Name the instrument and configuration. State the cytometer, lasers, panel size and analysis software, as the MIFlowCyt checklist asks (Lee et al., Cytometry A 2008, 10.1002/cyto.a.20623). "A spectral cytometer" does not count.
State the controls. Say what defined positivity (FMO, unstained, biological negative) and how spillover or unmixing was checked.
Give n at every level. Donors, samples, runs and instruments are different denominators; reviewers notice when an "n = 30" is three donors run ten times.
Make the conclusion something another lab can use. "We validated X" is weaker than "X cut hands-on time from A to B with no change in counts."
What did we miss? Hit reply with your meeting, course or webinar, with the host link, and we will add it. If a colleague is planning their CYTO abstract, forward this to them.
— Josh