On behalf of the Organizing Committee for the INDO-US Flow Cytometry Workshop, I welcome you to our 26th INDO-US Flow cytometry workshop, 11th Feb – 13th Feb 2025, Trivandrum, Kerala

The INDO-US Flow Cytometry Workshops (https://tetc.in/2025/past-workshops/)were started in 2002 with the express purpose of interfacing visiting experts in flow Cytometry for teaching applications of flow cytometry in bio-medical research. We have used the Indian model to conduct flow cytometry workshops in various cities of Egypt, India and China and in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok, Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya, Riyadh, Glasgow, Prague, Warsaw and Miami.

We are thankful to the TETC Trustees (Dr. Rekha Gour, Dr. P. N. Razdan and Dr. Arvinder Singh) and the organizing committee of the INDO-US workshops (Drs. Rekha Gour, Hemant Agrawal and Anugya Bhatt), to have organized an excellent program of lectures and wet labs using latest protocols and instruments.

We are thankful to our supporting institutes and technology partners for their continuous support for our workshops.

I hope you enjoy positive interactions with the faculty and continue your association with the INDO-US cytometry workshops in the future.

Yours truly,

Emeritus Professor,
Pathology Department, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
Patron, Trust for Education and Training in Cytometry (TETC)
Past Chair, Live Education Task Force, International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC)

It is my great honor to be the chairperson for the 26th INDO-US Flow Cytometry Workshop which is jointly organized by the Trust for Education and Training in Cytometry (TETC) and Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from 11th Feb to 13th Feb, 2025 at SCTIMST.

In last few years, flow cytometry has rapidly changed both in its dimension and direction. With the advancement of the technology, it’s very important to get updated with the current knowledge available in the field. This workshop will provide an excellent platform for all the participants to learn the technology and its applications directly from the experts.

As I have been involved in the Indo-US flow cytometry workshops and conferences in India from more than a decade, I have seen the continuous development of this state-of-the-art technology in our country. The revolutionary initiative towards imparting the knowledge of flow cytometry to the Indian scientists was take by Dr. Awtar Krishan in collaboration with Dr. Ranbir Sobti and Dr. Arvinder Singh in 2002, which gave the birth to the “Indo-US flow cytometry workshops”. These workshops were started with a vision of bringing experts from India, USA or abroad to a same platform, where their expertise can be utilized by the participants to understand the basics and advanced concepts in flow cytometry and to apply this insight to their clinical or non-clinical research interests.

To take forward the vision of the founders of the “Indo-US Cytometry workshops”, we have registered a non-profit Trust known as Trust for Education and Training in Cytometry (TETC) and started an initiative to propagate the knowledge of flow cytometry to the students of colleges, research institutes, and universities in India. On the same line, this current hybrid workshop is our earnest move in this direction.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our enthusiastic participants, our elite faculty and our sponsors for making this event happen. Also, I like to thank whole Team of TETC and SCTIMST for their foresight and earnest efforts in making this workshop a great platform for learning.

Yours truly,

Dr. Rekha Gour

Organizing Chairperson, 26th INDO-US Flow Cytometry Workshop, 2025

Co-founder and Managing Trustee-TETC

It is my great pleasure to be the part of the 26th INDO-US Flow Cytometry Workshop from 11th – 13th Feb 2025, which is jointly organized by Trust for Education and Training in Cytometry (TETC) in collaboration with Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram

Flow cytometry is a rapidly growing state of the art technique, and to harness the real power of this complex and rapidly evolving technique, formal organized training plays a major role. Correct formal training is not only important but also critical to avoid poor experimental design, inaccurate data analysis, wrong presentations and incorrect conclusions.

Keeping this in mind, INDO-US Flow Cytometry meetings has been started, which promotes the flow cytometry education in India and neighboring countries. The aim of these workshops is to promote and facilitate the formal training for the scientists who are using or intending to use flow cytometry in their research.

In last few years, the number of parameters (colors) simultaneously used in flow cytometry experiments has increased, which has added even more complexity to the researchers and made formal training of paramount importance. The goal is to provide correct insight about the core concepts of flow cytometry, which will help researchers to generate accurate and meaningful results that can further be utilized in research or clinics.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our participants, our elite faculty, our scientific partners and our sponsors for making this event happen. Also, I like to thank the Team TETC and SCTIMST for their hard work and earnest efforts in making this workshop a great platform for learning.

Yours truly,

Dr. Hemant Agrawal

Organizing Secretary, 26th INDO-US Flow Cytometry Workshop, 2025

Managing Officer-TETC

Director-Flowcytometry Solutions Pvt Ltd, India