Aim and content

This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline.

This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1. The student will be able to plan their experimental setup for running and analyzing flow cytometry samples, apply this in a practical setting, analyze the achieved data, and compare the data to other groups.
2. The student will be able to design panels for high parameter flow cytometry and know the inherent pitfalls
3. The student will get a detailed overview and be inspired of many relevant protocols and options for using flow cytometry in their work.

Content
The course will start with a summer school, where you are introduced to basic and advanced flow cytometry.
The summer school will take you through some of the pitfalls in flow cytometry especially related to panel design and data analysis.
The course will carry on as a series of state-of-the-art lectures from international high end users in many fields in flow cytometry and cell sorting, this includes:
• State-of-the-art image-based cell sorting
• Flow cytometry in immunology
• Flow cytometry in hematology and MRD
• Combined flow cytometry and microscopy
• A bioinformaticians take on analysis of high parameter flow cytometry data
• Data management/analysis/AI
• Advanced data analysis including clustering and dimensionality reduction
• Small particle flow cytometry (EV analysis)
• Clinical flow cytometry
• Mass cytometry
• New applications in flow cytometry
• Poster session
There will be 4 session dedicated oral presentations from students, and 2 poster viewing sessions.

It is mandatory for PhD students signed up at this course to submit an abstract and bring a poster for the meeting.

Participants
PhD students and people on similar level. No previous skills in flow cytometry are needed, but limited knowledge in the field will be an advantage

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:
– All graduate programmes

Language
English

Form
State-of-the-art lectures, oral presentations in workshops and poster presentation.

Course director
Professor Jan Pravsgaard Christensen, ISIM, 35327873, jpc@sund.ku.dk

Teachers
High end users, that are experts in their fields, from around the world.

Dates
20-22 August 2025

Course location
Niels K. Jerne auditorium and adjacent rooms, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 København N, Denmark

Registration
Please register before 1/4-2025

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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