Chesapeake Cytometry Consortium

About the consortium

Built for the people who run the cytometers, not just the ones who cite them.

CCC covers the Washington Metro DC, Maryland, and Virginia area, serving cytometry professionals throughout the region. We organize an annual scientific meeting focused on advancing education, training, and networking among regional cytometrists — and on giving vendors the opportunity to showcase their latest technologies.

Annual scientific meeting

A yearly gathering built around talks, training sessions, and vendor demonstrations of the latest cytometry technologies.

Regional network

A working link between cytometry professionals across DC, Maryland, and Virginia — academic, government, and industry labs alike.

Education & training

Programming aimed squarely at advancing the skills and practice of regional cytometrists, from bench technique to panel design.

Upcoming meeting

Fall Regional Meeting

A full day of talks, panel-design discussion, and vendor demonstrations, hosted at Montgomery College's Germantown Campus.

DateTuesday, September 22, 2026
Time8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
LocationMontgomery College, Germantown Campus — Bioscience Education Center, Rooms BE151, BE152 & BE162
FormatIn person — talks, workshops, exhibitor tables

Registration is closed

Agenda at a glance

8:30–9:00	Registration & breakfast
9:00–9:15	Opening remarks & welcome address
9:15–10:00	Serial Flow Cytometry: a measurement device for estimating uncertainty, elasticity, and kinetics of individual cells, organelles, and particles Gregory A. Cooksey, Ph.D. — National Institute of Standards and Technology
10:00–10:15	Coffee break
10:15–11:00	Quirks and All: unlocking comprehensive biological discovery out of your spectral flow cytometry datasets David Rach, Ph.D. — University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
11:00–11:30	PARP inhibition plus a selective bifunctional T-cell agonist drives polyclonal antitumor immunity and tumor regression: relevance of a 30-color spectral flow cytometry panel Ginette S. Santiago-Sanchez, Ph.D. — NCI / NIH
11:30–12:00	Using imaging flow cytometry to quantify bispecific immune cell engagers Nicholas Battaglia, Ph.D. — Dynamic Omics, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD
12:00–13:00	Lunch & visit with vendors
13:00–13:30	AI model training on the Attune CytPix for macrophage characterization Zuleima Munoz, Ph.D. — Dynamic Omics, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
13:30–14:00	Neuromorphic label-free imaging for kinetic serial flow cytometry of cell dynamics Matthew DiSalvo, Ph.D. — National Institute of Standards and Technology
14:00–14:30	Afternoon coffee break
14:30–14:55	Building robust unmixing in high-parameter spectral flow cytometry Ben Janoschek, Ph.D. — Sony Biotechnology
14:55–15:20	What lies beyond arbitrary fluorescence standardization? Josh Welsh, Ph.D. — Waters Biosciences
15:20–15:45	A practical spectral flow cytometry approach to classify functional subsets of human T cells Jessica Gucwa, Ph.D. — Cytek Biosciences
15:45–16:10	More than markers — unlocking cellular function with fluorescent probes Andrea Luker, Ph.D. — Revvity (BioLegend)
16:10–16:35	Authentic spectral signatures for reproducible results: how cell mimics improve spectral flow cytometry Sarah Kotanchiyev, Ph.D. — Slingshot Bio
16:35–17:00	When cells meet: functional cell–cell interaction screening with nanovials Sean Maynard — Partillion Bioscience
17:00	Adjourn

Download the full program & abstracts (PDF) →

Getting there

Directions & parking

The meeting is held in the Bioscience Education Center (Building BE), Rooms BE151, BE152 & BE162 — Montgomery College, Germantown Campus, 20200 Observation Drive, Germantown, MD 20876.

Montgomery College Germantown Campus map, with parking Lot 3 marked as the recommended lot and the Bioscience Education Center (Building BE) marked for MC Biotech Day events

Park in Lot 3, off Goldenrod Lane, right next to the Welcome Center and Building BE. Lot 4 is available as overflow parking if Lot 3 fills up.

From Rt. 118 / Germantown Rd, turn onto Goldenrod Ln toward the Welcome Center; Lot 3 is on your right. The Holiday Inn Express on Rt. 118 is the closest hotel to campus if you're traveling from out of town.

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Who attends

Cytometry professionals across DC, Maryland & Virginia

Cytometry professionals from academic, government, and industry labs throughout the Washington Metro DC, Maryland, and Virginia area.

Get involved

Present, exhibit, or volunteer

Interested in giving a talk, hosting a table, or helping organize a future meeting? Reach out to the organizing committee at cccflowcyt@gmail.com.

If budget is a barrier to attending, please come anyway — no one is turned away for being unable to pay. Reach out to cccflowcyt@gmail.com with any questions.

Vendors & exhibitors