Geza Paukovics B.Sc (RMIT)

Senior Research Officer

Since 1991, Mr Paukovics has been heavily involved in the field of flow cytometry, both as a research assistant and flow cytometry facility manager at the Burnet Institute. Currently Mr Paukovics is the Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP) Flow Cytometry Core Manager. AMREP incorporates a large number of research institutes and universities, including BakerIDI, Burnet Institute, Monash Central Medical School and Monash Immunology and Pathology Departments to name a few. AMREP Flow Cytometry Core Facility caters for all the varied cell analysis and sorting needs of the precinct. This department offers unparalleled education, training and licensing of all users, as well as experimental design and protocol guidance. Some of the instrumentation available at the precinct includes: FACSAria PC2 and PC3 sorting environments, 3x FACSCalibur, LSRII, FACSCantoII and FACSCanto96 well cell analysis platforms.

Dr. Angelo Perani Eur PhD (INPL, Nancy)

Senior Cell Biologist

Since 2004, Dr Perani has held the position of Senior Cell Biologist at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research - Biologic Production Facility (Melbourne, Australia). Over the last two decades he has been involved in research into the apoptosis, in the course of which he has worked with major flow cytometry platforms. His research has given particular attention to identifying causes, developing techniques for monitoring programmed cell death, and identifying suppression methods in industrial contexts. His current focus is Cell Line Development in Cancer Research.

Dr. Paul Hutchinson BAppSc MSc PhD

Head of Unit - Core Flow Cytometry Laboratory

Dr Hutchinson has over 25 years experience working in flow cytometry laboratories and teaching environments. Dr Hutchinson began working in flow cytometry in August 1983 at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne, subsequently taking up positions at Prince Henry’s Hospital (Nephrology), Monash Medical Centre (Clinical Immunology). In 2004, he complete his PhD at Monash University, studying the immune function in renal transplant recipients, having completed his Master of Science degree at the same university in 1993. In early 2008, he was appointed Head of the Unidade de Citometria de Fluxo at the Instituo de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal; a facility that services more than 250 researchers and has a 11 color FACSAria, 6 color FACSCanto, two FACSCaliburs, and a associated Partec CyFlow flow cytometer. Since July 2009, Dr Hutchinson has been in charge of the core flow cytometry facility at the Immunology Programme of the National University of Singapore. He is a Past President of the Australasian Flow Cytometry Group, has published over 50 articles relating to Flow Cytometry and its applications, and is a regular presenter at international Flow Cytometry conferences.

Dr. Claudio Ortolani MD (Padua)

Consultant Clinical Pathologist

Dr Ortolani obtained his MD degree at Padua University, and is a board approved specialist in Internal medicine, Clinical Biology, and General Haematology. For over thirty years he was employed in the Clinical Pathology Department of the Venice General Hospital, running one of the first diagnostic flow cytometry units in Italy. As senior consultant, his main clinical activity was the diagnosis of haematological neoplasms, with a particular interest in lymphoproliferative diseases. He has been past president of the GIC, the Italian Society for Cytometry, and is member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Biological Markers. He is very active in teaching flow cytometry in many national and international courses, and since 1994 has been Lecturer in Cellular Pathology at Padua University and is also Lecturer in Haematology and Applied Cytometry at Urbino University. He is co-author of 20 refereed journal published original papers. He is the author of the first Italian reference manual of flow cytometric analysis of hematological malignancies, now at its second edition.