The next annual meeting of the Biological Stain Commission will be in Rochester NY, Friday and Saturday 14th and 15th June 2019, at the Hilton Garden Inn, which is beside the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC).
The Friday scientific sessions on MEDICAL STAINING AND IMAGING will be held in the Flaum Atrium at URMC, and will include invited speakers, a poster session with prize money, and vendor displays, and also a social event in the evening – bring your spouse or a guest.
Provisional Program.
| Invited Speakers | Affiliation | Title of Presentation | |
| Anton Bennett, PhD | Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, Ct | Metabolic Control by Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases | |
| Dick Dapson, PhD and Chad Fagan | BSC President and Assay Laboratory Manager | Introduction, History of Stains and Certifications from the BSC Assay Laboratory | |
| Ed Brown, PhD | Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester, NY | Second Harmonic Generation of Cancer Prognosis | |
| Michael Giacomelli, PhD | Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester, NY | Virtual Histopathology of Living Tissue using two Photon Microscopy and Rapid Staining. | |
| Lacey McNally, PhD | Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC | Actively targeted nanoparticles identify cancer | |
| Maged Henary | Department of Chemistry, Georiga State University, Atlanta, GA | Microwave Synthesis of Near-Infrared Pentamethine Cyanine Dyes for Use In Bio-Imaging | |
| Brad Turner, MD | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; University of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester, NY | TBA | |
| Brendan Boyce M.D. | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; University of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester, NY | Whole Slide Imaging | |
| David Hicks, MD | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; University of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester, NY | A novel detection methodology for HER2 protein quantitation in formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded clinical samples using fluorescent nanoparticles: An analytical and clinical validation study. | |
| William Grizzle, MD | Department of Pathology; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL | Targeting and Internalization of Nanoparticles in Malignant Cells | |
| Rosemary Bassey, PhD | Department of Professional and Medical Education, Meharry Medical College School of Medicine, Nashville, TN | Histomorphologic Characterization of Human Tissues Stained with Selected Plant-Based Dyes | |
| And more, TBA | |||
| Tentative Schedule | |||
| Friday 14th June 2019 | |||
| 8:00–8:20 a.m. | Registration | ||
| 8:00–8:20 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 8:20–9:00 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 9:00–9:30 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 9:30–10:00 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 10:00–10:15 a.m. | Break | ||
| 10:15–10:45 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 10:45–11:15 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 11:15–11:45 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 11:45–1:15 a.m. | Lunch | ||
| 1:15–1:45 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 2:15–2:30 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 2:15–2:30 a.m. | Break | ||
| 2:30–3:00 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 3:00–3:30 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 3:30–4:00 a.m. | Seminar | ||
| 4:00–4:15 a.m. | CONCLUDING REMARKS | ||
| 4:15–6:30 p.m. |
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| 7:00–10:00 p.m. | BSC Annual Dinner | ||