Laboratory of Flow Cytometry Staff

Department of Flow and Image Cytometry Staff

Paul Wallace Ph.D.

is the new leader of this band of Flow Cytometrists. His daily routine, when he is not on travel, is to review and sign out all the previous day’s clinical reports, analyze data for manuscripts, grants and protocol studies. The afternoons are usually devoted to meetings. There are interactions with resource users who need advice on their experiments and discussions with laboratory personnel, students and postdocs. Every day is definitely a busy one.

George Deeb, MD

Is an extremely nice and talented pathologist. However, someone needs to write his bio.. George?

Hans Minderman, Ph.D.

Hans Minderman (PhD), has 20+ years of experience in clinical translational research in which flow cytometry and image cytometry have played central roles. He served as co-investigator on several peer-reviewed grant applications from the NIH, ACS, AROCC, and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and is currently the PI of an NIH funded grant to develop the clnical applicatins of the Imagestream technology.

Dr. Minderman has the daily management responsibility of the Image and Flow Cytometry satellite facility which includes supervion of Mr. Hurley and Mr. O'Loughlin, communication with facility users (experiment design, developing analysis strategies, instruction), communication with the facility suport, (IT and manufacturers of the diverse facility instruments), development of new peer-reviewed funding that makes use of the technology available in the facility

Maurice Barcos, MD

As the Consulting Pathologist for the Laboratory of Flow Cytometry, Maurice provides the morphological interpretation of hematopoietic malignancies processed by the laboratory.

Lynn M. Bender

Lynn M. Bender is a Medical Technologist, licensed by New York State with an ASCP Qualification in Flow Cytometry. Her immunophenotyping expertise helps the work day move along smoothly in the Clinical Laboratory.

Susan Camacho, B.S.

Susan has been working in the Flow Cytometry Department since September of 2005. She is involved in many different aspects of department endeavors including assay development, research experiments, panel making and verification and analysis. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University at Buffalo. Susan has been involved in biological research for about 18 years.

Aileen Cinquino

Aileen is a Licensed Medical Technologist. She is the Supervisor of the Research group. she is also the keeper of the Antibodies. All requests for panels and antibodies go through her first. She maintains the antibody inventory. She titers the antibodies, prepares the QC's, the panels to be used, pleus a lot more.

Alexis Conway

Alexis has been working in the Flow Cytometry Department since September of 2005. She is involved in many different aspects of the department such as assay developmentk, research experiments, panel making and verification, and analysis. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University at Buffalo. Alexis has been involved in biological research for 18 years.

Mary Beth Dell

(The Super) is an ASCP certified flow cytometry medical technologist who supervises the clinical reference laboratory, the daily quality assurance, sample processing of data acquisition and analysis of several hundred patient specimens per month. Needless to say, she is also very busy. Her time is spent maintaining the laboratory’s compliance with regulatory agencies, such as the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA). She also organizes the daily workload of the other technicians.

Rose Furlage

Rose started at RPCI Flow in 2004. She had prior experience in Flow Cytometry in 1990 when she was trained on the FACSStar and then moved to the FACSScan and the FACSCaliber. She received a Qualification in Cytometry from ASCP in 1997. Since arriving here, Rose has done both clinical and research samples from staining to running to analysis and has been trained on the FACSCanto. She has a BS in Medical Technology and has been working in this field since 1972 with the exception of a few years spent working for the IRS, (what was she thinking).

Janice L. Hoffmann

Jan is licensed as a Clinical Laboratory Technologist by the state of New York. She holds ASCP certifications in Medical Technology and Cytometry. Jan assists in the preparation and analysis of clinical and research samples for immunophenotyping. She processes all solid tumor specimens for DNA content and both membrane and intracellular markers. She also maintains the clinical laboratory database.

Ed Hurley B.A.

Ed Hurley (BA) has 30 years of experience in scanning and transmisssion electron microscopy (EM) and has 17 years of experience woth confocal microscipy. The EM services provided by Mr. Hurley include all aspects from sample preparation through data acquisition and data analysis. Because of the specialized nature of this tecnology, most users have depended on Mr. Hurley's expertise for the preparation, acquisition and analysis of their samples but a select number of users have opted to be instructed in technology by him. Current applications include quality control for nanospheres technology, microfiber detection, analysis of and pseudopod formation. Mr. Hurley asists facility users with experimental planning, data acquisition and analysis for the EM technology, Confocal Microscopy and Live Cell Imaging.

Ibrahim Kebbewar, Ph.D.

Ibrahim is a Canadian citizen with a Syrian background. He obtained his BSc in Pharmacy from AL-ISRA University, Amman, Jordan, then moved to Europe to do his PhD in Biochemistry at The Biochemistry Center Heidelberg University, Germany. After that moved to the United States of America for a Post-Doc at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Early Diagnostic is more beneficial than complicated Treatment.

Kelly

Is extremely nice. However, someone needs to write his bio.. Kelly?

Kieran O'Loughlin, M.S.

Kieran O'Loughlin (BS) has 10 years of flow cytometry and translational research experience and he has contributed his expertise to various peer reviewed grant applications and publications. He has also been involved with training of medical fellows and students of all levels on specific laboratory techniques, including flow cytometry. Mr. O'Loughlin assists facility users with experimental planning, data acquisition and analysis for the ImageSteam technology, Flow Cytometry (FC500, FacsCalibur, FacsAria) and Live Cell Imaging.

Dalin Pan, M.S.

Dalin Pan, MS has two years of experience working th the Flow Cyotmetry Resource and eight years of experience performing molecular and biological research. He orders all the laboratory supplies needed to maintain the research laboratory. He performs experiments required by investigators who do not perform their own. This includes processing the specimans, analyzing the data, reviewing the data with the investigators, and providing final graphs and tables for publication.

Edward Podniesinski

(The Electronics Magician) is our electronics engineer and he has developed a preventive maintenance program for all instruments, which has significantly reduced our maintenance contract costs. But more importantly, he makes modifications to the instruments to provide for new applications. He has over 16 years of experience in maintaining and serviceing the flow cytometers and instrumentation for the department. He manages all data processing hardware and interfaces with the Information Technology Department to maintain our network with the rest of the Institute and with the worldwide network. Because of his unique expertise, Ed also provides some of these services to the Institute as a whole. (Without Ed we would not exist).

Marilyn Price

(Ms Moneypenney) maintains all records related to all laboratory functions. These include billing, scheduling, outreach, correspondence, progress reports, papers, grants and demographic information. In addition, she provides all standard secretarial functions related to facility business.

Michael Rickard, M.S.

joined us in 2004 and is currently processsing samples for the Luminex system using the robotic workstation and managing sample data.

David Sheedy

(Sort God) has over 20 years of experience in cell sorting by flow cytometry. He is responsible for daily instrument quality control and the operation of the FACSCalibur, FACScan and FACSVantage SE flow cytometers. These instruments are used for all clinical and basic research studies. He also performs all sorting experiments required by resource users. He is always available to answer any questions users might have about flow cytometry (or 60’s music or movies).

Joseph D. Tario, Jr.

Joseph is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cancer Pathology and is performing his dissertation work in this laboratory on the use of dendritic cell vaccines in the treatment of cancer. His diverse background in cellular biology and prior experience in flow cytometry have been valuable assets in the progression of his studies and also to the collective research group. Joseph is a diligent worker and evidently and ardent Neil diamond enthusiast, as he can sometimes be overheard singing 'Forever in Blue Jeans' while running experiments into the late hours of the evening.

Earl Timm

(The Go-To-Man) has ten years experience in both molecular and cell biology experimentation using flow cytometry. He primarily develops new flow cytometry based tests that are then transferred to others for routine use. He also spends a large portion of his time performing hands on training to resource users, students and postdocs. His is the “go to” man when there is a technical problem.