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Swift Analytical Announces Gold Sponsorship of the 1st London Spectral Cytometry Meeting
2026-04-22 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
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YORK, UK — Swift Analytical is proud to announce its role as a Gold Sponsor for the inaugural London Spectral Cytometry Meeting, taking place on 22nd April at UCL, Jeffery Hall (IoE), London, UK. This landmark event brings together the UK’s leading experts to explore the latest advancements in high-dimensional cell analysis.

The organising committee’s mission is to bring together researchers, technicians, cytometrists and immunologists to explore the cutting edge of spectral flow cytometry. Whether you have never used spectral cytometry and don’t know where to start, or you are an advanced user looking to refine your experiments, this meeting is the perfect place to share experiences, learn best practices and discover new approaches.

As a highlight of the exhibition, Swift Analytical will be showcasing the Challenbio Spectral Cytometer. Designed to push the boundaries of multi-colour flow cytometry, the Challenbio system offers:

Exceptional Sensitivity: Advanced spectral unmixing for complex panels.
Intuitive Workflow: Streamlined setup to accelerate research timelines.
Flexible Configuration: Tailored for both core facilities and individual labs.

“We are thrilled to support the London cytometry community at this first-of-its-kind meeting,” said Dr Mehboob Surve, Managing Director at Swift Analytical. “The Challenbio platform represents a significant leap forward in making high-end spectral analysis more accessible and efficient.”
Attendees are invited to visit the Swift Analytical stand to see learn more about the CytoStellar and discuss how spectral technology can transform their current research applications.

Molecular Microbial Ecology Group Meeting 2025
2025-12-15 11:30 - 2025-12-16 15:30 | The Alan Walters Building, University of Birmingham, The Alan Walters Building, Birmingham, B15 2SB, United Kingdom
Swift Analytical are proud to attend the MMEG meeting in partnership with On-Chip Biotechnologies, manufacturers of droplet-based microfluidic systems utilising advanced technologies for single cell analysis and high throughput screening. Key applications include applications including novel microorganisms screening from the environment, development of antibody-producing cells and directed evolution of enzyme.
Now in its 31st year, the Molecular Microbial Ecology Group (MMEG) meeting returns 15-16 December 2025 at the Alan Walters Building, University of Birmingham, hosted by Professor James McDonald.
MMEG is a welcoming, lively space for early career researchers and group leaders to share their work and connect across the microbial ecology community. This year’s programme spans all aspects of microbial ecology, including environmental microbiology, biogeochemical cycling, host-microbe interactions and applied microbiology, with nearly all talks delivered by early career speakers.
The event features plenary sessions, posters, and exhibition. Abstract submissions are invited for a poster with optional 1-minute-1-slide ‘poster pitch’ presentation. You can also submit an abstract for a 15-minute talk. Abstract submission is open for all career stages from undergraduate, master’s students, technical staff, PhD researchers and Postdocs.

British Society of Immunology Congress 2025
2025-12-01 17:00 | ACC Liverpool, King’s Dock, Port of Liverpool, Kings Dock St, Liverpool L3 4FP, King's Dock, Port of Liverpool, Kings Dock St,, Liverpool, L3 4FP, United Kingdom
Swift Analytical are proud to announce their new partnership with Challenbio.
Challenbio are one of the top 5 manufacturers of cytometry products ranging from single laser analysers to multi-laser full spectrum cytometers. We will be launching the Cytostellar 5 laser 78 colour full spectrum cytometer! Visit us on Stand 34. Also come along to our sponsored talk on Wed 3rd December at 4.10PM entitled ‘Spectral Flow Cytometry for Immunological Research’. As part of our exciting launch, there is an early adopter promotion!

We’re excited to welcome over 1,500 immunologist. With 4 days of lectures, workshops and networking sessions, this year’s Congress will include an exciting programme spanning a range of topics across immunology.
Professor Judi Allen from The University of Manchester will be joining the Congress as the new keynote speaker. Judi is Professor of Immunobiology in the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology & Inflammation and the Manchester Cell Matrix Centre where her lab focuses on host immune response to parasite infection with a focus on type 2 immunity. She is also the Director of the recently announced MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology.
There will be ample opportunity to network, connect with event sponsors and exhibitors, present and attend poster sessions, and attend sessions on personal and professional development. We look forward to meeting you soon!

2025-09-16 12:00 - 2025-09-17 17:00 | University Place, Manchester,, 176 Oxford Rd,, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom
We’re excited to invite you to connect with Swift Analytical at the upcoming UK Stem Cell Network 2025 on Sept 16th & 17th. We will be there to answer questions and help you learn how the WOLF G2 Cell Sorter provides gentle, microfluidic-based sorting designed to preserve the health and function of fragile stem cells.

Keep Your Stem Cells Happy

2023 TERMIS - EU Chapter Manchester
2023-03-28 08:00 - 2023-03-31 17:00 | Manchester Central Convention Complex Manchester M2 3GX UK, Manchester Central Convention Complex, Manchester, M2 3GX, United Kingdom
Swift Analytical, in partnership with Gelomics and Readily 3D are proud to announce that we will be silver sponsors of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) European Chapter Meeting 2023 which will be held in Manchester on the 28th to 31st March 2023.
The TERMIS EU conference is the leading event for the dissemination of the latest research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, offering researchers, clinicians and industry an ideal opportunity to present and discuss their most recent findings, developments and challenges in the field.
The theme of the meeting in Manchester will be ‘Broadening the Targets and Approaches for Regenerative Medicine’ and will reflect state-of-the-art international science including the latest breakthroughs.
The conference will offer a mix of internationally-renowned plenary and keynote speakers spanning this interdisciplinary field, parallel scientific sessions, poster presentations, diverse pre-conference workshops and exciting network events. The TERMIS Student and Young Investigator Section (SYIS) will play an active role in organisation and will have their own dedicated sessions to ensure engagement with the next generation of leaders in the field.
We look forward to meeting you to Manchester, a vibrant and dynamic city which mixes modern infrastructure with an immense scientific and industrial heritage as the ‘Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution’.
We look forward to meeting you at the 2023 TERMIS EU Chapter Meeting in Manchester.

World Organoid Research Day
2023-03-22 08:00 - 17:00 | Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3caYzebGRXabvEEi8ngEzA
Our partners, CellDynamics are sponsoring a free (for organoid and related research professionals) to attend, open celebration of the latest 3D organoid research from around the globe! All talks will be online with some regional in person events hosted by industry partners including: ScreenIn3D, Strathclyde, UK and Qkine, Cambridge, UK. Commercial and sponsored tickets also available.
3D Organoid Research has come a long way from early beginnings with epithelial cells in 1987, ESCs in 2008 and ASCs in 2009. To celebrate these wonderful achievements and the wonderful work since, we propose the: First annual World Organoid Research Day: March 22nd 2023.

Join to watch a series of 15 minute talks from some of the worlds leading organoid researchers. Speakers from A (Auckland) to Z (Zurich), across organ model types and therapeutic areas. Hear and see the latest technologies making a real difference to discovery. A celebration of organoid research, accessible wherever you are!

Flow Facilities Meeting 2023
2023-01-30 12:00 - 2023-01-31 14:00 | 15Hatiields, Chadwick Court, 15 Hatfields,, London, London, SE1 8DJ, United Kingdom
This year the annual Flow Cytometry Facilities meeting is back to an in-person event! As in previous years, the meeting is aimed at all those that run or work in a Flow Facility and seeks to address common issues within the community. We will focus on technology as well as the operational aspects of a flow facility as well as hearing from Funding bodies and relevant Societies. We will include presentations from current core facilities (Crib talks) and also from our industry colleagues (Technobites). The meeting will be run over two days from lunchtime to lunchtime (30 and 31 January 2023). There will be ample time in the programme for discussion and questions from the community.
Swift Analytical are proud sponsors of this event.

ACTC 2022 Virtual Conference
2022-11-10 - 2022-11-11 | Virtual

3DbioNet in-person Workshop
2022-07-06 - 2022-07-07 | The Mathematics Institute, Oxford University
Swift Analytical will be exhibiting at the 3DbioNet in-person workshop event.

Yorkshire Brain Tumour Symposium 2022
2022-07-05 09:00 - 16:00 | The Met Hotel, King Street, Leeds, LS1 2HQ, United Kingdom
Swift Analytical are an exhibitor and benevolent sponsor of this great event.

Joint TCES/EPSRC CDT Conference 2022
2022-06-13 - 2022-06-15 | University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Swift Analytical are delighted to be Premium Sponsor of the Joint tissue and cell engineering society and engineering and physical sciences research council centres for doctoral training conference 2022.

8th SIG Mass Spec Imaging Symposium
2022-05-11 09:00 - 17:00 | Sheffield Hallam University, Hallam Hall, Sheffield, S1 1WB, United Kingdom
Swift Analytical are pleased to be exhibiting at the 8th SIG Mass Spectrometry Imaging Symposium.
The Centre for Mass Spectrometry Imaging/Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University in conjunction with the British Mass Spectrometry Society is pleased to announce the Eighth Mass Spectrometry Imaging Symposium.
This event will showcase the latest advances in MS Imaging, featuring presentations from internationally renowned scientists including Professor Simona Francese from Sheffield Hallam University and Professor Josephine Bunch from The National Physical Laboratory.

Guidelines for reagent choice in the development of diagnostic tests
2021-10-21 15:00 - 16:00
Join our upcoming webinar organised by BLIRT

Guidelines for reagent choice in the development of diagnostic tests

presented by Joanna Niska-Blakie, PhD

Thursday, 21st October 2021 –
15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 7:00 PDT

During this webinar, our manufacturing partner BLIRT will highlight the key features of molecular reagents used in point-of-care diagnostics, with the emphasis on the importance of their cross-compatibility and reaction optimization.
To register, please complete the form by copying and pasting the link below into your browser: https://blirt.eu/guidelines-for-reagent-choice-in-the-development-of-diagnostic-tests/
By joining this webinar you will:

Learn what features of molecular reagents to focus on when developing diagnostic tests
Discover how to improve the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tests
Gain a detailed understand of current and future point-of-care diagnostic methods
Determine essential criteria to choose the best reagent supplier for your business

Who should attend?

Molecular diagnostic start-ups
Molecular reagent manufacturers
IVD manufacturers

About the presenter

Joanna Niska-Blakie, received her Ph.D. in Molecular Oncology and Human Genetics at FIRC Institute in Milan, where she was investigating the role of DNA replication in maintaining genome stability. She continued her scientific career as a postdoc at A*STAR in Singapore, where she worked on the improved therapeutic strategies for patients with various cancer types and the metabolic disease triggered by the age-related microbiome disbalance. Her broad knowledge, expertise, and deep understanding of molecular techniques and scientific trends are of great value to BLIRT’s

Label-free, biophysical readouts for analyzing 3D cell culture-based in vitro assays
2021-10-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3caYzebGRXabvEEi8ngEzA
3D culture systems, like spheroids and organoids, represent useful in vitro models for drug screening and, more broadly, for disease modelling. The possibility to characterize spheroid’s biophysics would considerably increase the knowledge of critical factors in 3D biology, such as cellular density and size-dependent mass transport. In this regard, the dataset of biophysical observables, collected with the W8 Physical Cytometer, paves the way to a new, label-free method for the analysis of 3D cell culture-based assays.
The format is a roundtable discussion comprising current users and experts utilising CellDynamics novel patented W8 system.

Marianna Kruithof-de Julio PhD
Director of Organoid Core @ University of Bern (Bern, CH)

Spartaco Santi PhD
Head of Digital Microscopy Center @ Institute of Molecular Genetics – CNR (Bologna, IT)

The importance of reagent selection for developing diagnostic kits
2021-06-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3caYzebGRXabvEEi8ngEzA
This is an online event. To attend, please register on https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LmI4fPRzRT6HaBSWSoOyRQ
Swift Analytical and BLIRT invite you to join our joint webinar entitled “The importance of reagent selection for developing high performance diagnostic kits”. In this webinar you will
• Learn how to develop your diagnostic kit, choosing the best reagents
• Determine how to optimize different reagent for best performance
• Know more about current and future point-of-care technologies
• Find out how to ensure a robust supply chain from early research to full scale production
Who should attend:
• start ups and established groups developing or considering the development of diagnostic kits

Spheroids: the most important 3D cell culture tool in life science research
2021-05-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3caYzebGRXabvEEi8ngEzA
Key aspects that people can expect to learn from this webinar:
• Science becomes clinical reality. The link between cell culture and cell therapy of the fu-ture.
• What are spheroids/organoids and the potential and capacity of 3D cell culture for future clinical application
• How to get out most of your experimental setup
• The translational roadmap of customized spheroids for patients – from the bench to the bed – obstacles and promises
• The Sphericalplate 5D (SP5D) – The large scale generation of uniform, size-controlled and functional spheroids suitable for clinical research and transplantation studies

Networking matters: Connecting cells into 3D spheroids and their potential in research and pre-clinical applications
2021-05-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3caYzebGRXabvEEi8ngEzA
The standardization of 3D in vitro model systems in cancer and stem cell research as well as in pharmaceutical applications is an indispensable process due to their potential to resemble the in vivo environment more properly than common 2D systems. Traditional 2D cell cultures offer only restricted cell-cell contacts in one dimension which leads to unnatural cell phenotypes, cell behavior and drug-target interactions. On the other hand, cell spheroids – a dense 3D cell network – allow cell-cell contact in all dimensions for more precise validation of cell based assays. Different technologies are available for development of spheroid-based model systems, which differ in their applications and their potential to standardize 3D based assays for pharmaceutical as well as medical research. In this talk we will compare different commercially available Low-Attachment systems in their ability to produce consistent spheroid data for pharmaceutical and medical research.
To attend, please register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yTVEMlEmTxCvjfH3RgfbRg

Physical cytometry for 3D cell culture - rapid simultaneous determination of weight, size and mass density of spheroids and organoids
2021-03-04 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3caYzebGRXabvEEi8ngEzA
Abstract
With the worldwide need for uniformity in 3D cell culture methods, the focus is no longer whether physical characterization will factor into a workflow, but how is it possible to precisely assess the homogeneity of the 3D sample populations. The scientific landscape strongly requires researchers to correlate physical parameter with those derived from the commonly used in vitro tests. And most importantly, when it comes to culturing 3D cell models as spheroids or organoids, their biophysics holds a biological relevance, thereby representing a potential source of data variability.
In this webinar, we will showcase the W8 physical cytometer – the only fully automated system for the physical characterization of 3D sphere-like biological samples. The combination of CellDynamics’ groundbreaking microfluidic technology with bright-field image-based analysis simultaneously provides a sample’s mass density, weight and size values in less than 10 minutes. In addition, the W8 is able to sort a target sub-population using pre-selected ranges for these parameters.

Patterning tissues for cell microenvironment engineering using the Biopixlar single-cell resolution bioprinter
2021-02-11 13:00 - 14:00
Join us for an exciting talk by Fluicell CTO Dr. Gavin Jeffries on using high-resolution bioprinting to control cell microenvironment. This webinar is co-organized by the Tissue and Cell Eningeering Society (TCES) and Swift Analytical Ltd.
The seminar is chaired by Professor Sarah Cartmell of The University of Manchester.
Abstract:
The progress of bioprinting technologies and applications has accelerated tremendously in recent years. However, reproducing the complexity of tissue biology, especially mimicking the architecture of cellular microenvironment on an individual cell level remains a challenge.
In this presentation we will demonstrate how Fluicell employs hydrodynamically confined devices to build biological tissues from individual cells. Furthermore, we will demonstrate the advantages of patterning tissues and controlling the microenvironment using an open-volume microfluidic approach.

Webinar: 3D bioprinting with single cell precision for the construction of tissue and disease models
2020-11-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom, United Kingdom
The progress of bioprinting technologies and applications has accelerated tremendously in recent years. However, reproducing the complexity of tissue biology, especially mimicking architecture of cellular microenvironment on an individual cell level remains a challenge. Fluicell’s microfluidics based technology enables position of individual cells in complex 2D and 3D patterns for generation of multi-cellular tissues with great accuracy and precision. Moreover, the technology enables tissue model investigations after printing by precise delivery of drugs or other compounds to specific areas in the model. The presentation will focus on Fluicell’s microfluidics technology and different examples of bioprinted tissue models and applications.
Please sign up using the link below or cutting and pasting the following into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3caYzebGRXabvEEi8ngEzA
