The Nordic Flow Cytometry Meeting February 2022

The Norwegian Society for Flow Cytometry (NFCF) is the proud organizer of the Nordic Flow Cytometry Meeting 2022 in collaboration with the Danish and Swedish Societies of Flow Cytometry. The meeting includes exciting lecturers, a poster session, commercial exhibition and talks, in addition to an optional Flow course. Registration closed December 10th.
We are very pleased that our meeting will proceed as a face-to-face meeting the 10th and 11th of February, with the flow cytometry course on the 9th of February.

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How to get there

When there: Registration, meals, accomodation and map

Program

Corona-virus precautions

Traveling to Norway

Exhibition info for company participants

Posters: Where and and when

How to get there

Place: Conference center X meeting point / Moxy Hotel

Buy bus tickets to/from Oslo airport: «FB1 Majorstuen» .

Coming from the airport: Departure from Oslo airport 20 minutes past each hour. Choose «X meeting point» stop. It will drive all the way down to the venue from Oslo airport.

Going back to the airport: Departure from Oslo airport approx. 20 minutes past each hour. Choose «Hellerudsletta» stop. IMPORTANT: You need to walk up to «Hellerudsletta» bus stop (see image below for directions).

Free parking at the venue: but ONLY if you register your car when arriving. Self-registration screen in X meeting point foyer or at the Moxy Hotel reception (remember your license plate number). Address: Kragerudveien 50, 2013 Skjetten

For participants that wish travel by bus from other locations, please find travel route at ruter.no, and type in «X Meeting Point Norway». The closest bus stop is «Hellerudsletta», a 500 m walk from the venue.

Walking route to/from Hellerudsletta-bus stop

When at the venue

Registration of all participants: The organizing committee will help register you at arrival. So please find us in the foyer at X meeting point to get your name tag and meeting booklet.

Please await check-in at Moxy hotel until the check-in opens for us (see check-in time slots in the program). The hotel prefers check-out before the program starts Friday morning at 9:00.

Map of the venue

All meals and snacks are included in registration fee. Lunch and breakfast for participants are served in Restaurant GÅRD. Lunch is served as a 2 course meal. The 3 course conference dinner on Thursday is served at «the catwalk», (middle image below). Snack bar is placed outside our lecture room, «The Box», in the foyer and open at specific break times, as stated in the program.

Program overview

Printable program / Meeting booklet (PS: Printed booklet will be handed out)

Basic Flow Cytometry Course (optional)

ONLY for participants that have registered for «Course and Meeting»:

The course is sponsored by CYTEK Biosciences

The Nordic Flow Cytometry Meeting 2022

Corona-virus precautions:

The spacious lecture room «The Box» allows allocated seating with 1 m distance in all directions. Thus, you may remove your face mask while seated both during lectures and of course during meals.

All participants are required to:
  • Wear a face mask when 1 m distance to others cannot be upheld (during breaks and when visiting the exhibition/posters) 
  • Return to the same seat in the lecture room and keep to the same seat during meals.
All participants are advised to:
  • Bring antigen-tests for testing themselves every morning during their stay
  • Frequently wash or sanitize hands, there will be hand sanitizer stations scattered throughout the venue.
The Box lecture room

Information to participants traveling to Norway

Please see the official information for entry to Norway.

Obligatory testing at the border is no longer a requirement, neither is proof of negative test (unless you are not vaccinated). However, proof of vaccination and/or prior covid-infection needs to be provided.

Remember to complete this registration form <72 h prior to entry into Norway

Exhibition information to companies

Exhibition location: Spacious foyer outside the lecture room «The Box». In this way the program can continue as planned with free movement of all participants during the exhibition sessions.

Exhibition time slots: Main session will be Thursday from 18:00-20:00, with «bubbles» and scientific posters. However, participants will have breaks with snacks in the exhibition area at other time points throughout the meeting too, see full program for details. We advise that you are present at your table at those times.

Exhibition set up: 07:00-09:00 Thursday February 10th. One table and one chair will be available for each registered company. Please bring extension cords and charge any lap tops prior to exhibition as there are limited numbers of electrical sockets at the exhibition area.

Exhibition security: As the exhibition area is in the foyer, any valuables (e.g. instruments) must be moved back in to «The Box» (the lecture room) before the conference dinner. «The box» will be locked during the night, and you need to move everything back out in the foyer before the program starts at 09:00 Friday morning.

Participants who have registered a poster for the meeting

Format: Bring your poster in any desired format as the poster will be hung on the walls directly. We need to use painter’s tape, the organizing committee will provide the right tape.

Place: The posters will have allocated wall space in the foyer/exhibition area (just outside the lecture room «The Box»). We will hang numbers on the wall to mark the poster locations, and you need to find the location matching your poster number. See booklet and information from Brith Bergum.

Mounting time point: Posters may be mounted on your allocated wall space before the program starts at 10:00 Thursday. The tape will be available from the committee at the registration desk. Please return the tape there when finished.

Poster session time: 18:00-19:30(-ish) Thursday evening. Please, keep close to your poster during that time to answer any questions from other participants.