Preliminary program:
· 9H30-10H00: Registration.
· 10H00-10H10: Introductions and overview of the programme (Lonnie van Zyl & Bernhard Fromme).
· 10H10-11H00: Introduction to flow cytometry in both analysis and sorting (Nazma Mansoor).
· 11H00-11H20: Tea Break
· 11H20-12H00: Applications in flow cytometry – Analytical and Particle sorting (Research Applications in Cell Biology, Cell culture, Stem Cells, Chemokine & Cytokine studies, Cell signalling, Apoptosis, Cell cycle, Marine research, Biotechnology, Stem cells, Polymers, Bacterial, Vesicles, single cell sorting for NGS)(Nazma Mansoor).
· 12H00-13H00: Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing and applications in singe cell analysis (Jaques du Preez).
· 13H00-14H00: Lunch
· 14H00-14H30: UWC research with the BD FACS ARIA (Lonnie van Zyl).
· 14H30-15H30: Viewing of both instruments and lucky draw for WhiteSci hamper (Nazma Mansoor, Bernhard Fromme and Lonnie van Zyl).