The next annual meeting of the Biological Stain Commission for 2012 will be held at the Del Monte Lodge Renaissance Hotel, in Pittsford, near Rochester NY on Friday 1st June 2012.

To reserve a room, please call 1-866-237-5979 (toll-free) before 4th May 2012 and say that it is for the Biological Stain Commission meeting.

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  Alternatively, click here, print out and complete the form, and snail-mail it with a cheque to the BSC's  headquarters in Rochester, NY. (The address is on the form.) 
 
The subject of the scientific session will be Fluorochromes. The program includes the following invited speakers.
Dr  Xiaojun Peng, Director, State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals; Changjuang Distinguished Professor, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China What can fluorescent probes tell us about living cells? Two examples: intracellular viscosity and identifying nuclear DNA.
Also:
Standardization of dyes in the Chinese textile industry

Click  here for an illustrated summary of Dr Peng's presentation.
Dr  Elizabeth Little, Ventana Medical Systems, Tucson, AZ Evolution of tissue biomarker approaches.

Click here for a summary of Dr Little's presentation.
Dr  Lianping Xing, School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Investigation of lymphatic function in arthritis using near-infrared dye based lymphatic imaging and staining.

Click here for a summary of Dr Xing's presentation.
Dr  Richard W. Horobin, Pitlochry, Scotland,  and
Dr  Richard W. Dapson, Dapson & Dapson LLC, Richland, MI		 Where do fluorescent probes  go, in living cells?

Click here for a summary of Horobin and Dapson's presentation.

 

  The annual meeting for 2013 will be in Pittsburgh, PA and is expected to focus on standardization of staining for image analysis in pathology.

Revised 22nd March 2012