The next annual meeting of the Biological Stain Commission for 2012 will be held at the De Monte Lodge Renaissance Hotel, in Pittsford, near Rochester NY on 1st June 2012.
 
The subject of the scientific session will be Fluorochromes. This web page will be updated when more information is available. Provisionally 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 Designing and synthesizing chemosensor dyes for use in biology and medicine

Standardization of dyes in the Chinese textile industry
Dr  Elizabeth Little, Ventana Medical Systems, Tucson, AZ Fluorescent imaging
Dr  Lianping Xing, School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Indocyanine green
Dr  Richard W. Horobin, Pitlochry, Scotland,  and
Dr  Richard W. Dapson, Dapson & Dapson LLC, Richland, MI		 Predicting membrane-penetrating potential of fluorochromes: QSAR and Hydrophilic Index

 

  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 24th October 2011