Abstracts for ESCCA 2018 Conference: At the Shore of Future Cytometry September 13-15, 2018, Valencia, Spain.

We are pleased to present abstracts from ESCCA 2018: At the Shore of Future Cytometry. This year, the European Society for Clinical Cell Analysis (ESCCA) organised its annual Conference over 3 days in Valencia, Spain. Four workshops for a limited number of participants - dedicated to Cytometry Analysis Tools, Cytometry of Microparticles, Cytometry in Veterinary and Animal Sciences and CLL MRD - as well as ESCCA certification exams took place before the Conference. The Conference itself included four Education Programmes from which the participants had to choose in advance: (i) Good Cytometry Practices; (ii) Advanced Hemato-Oncology; (iii) Clinical Diagnostic Cytometry and (v) Advanced Immunology. A group of experts in these fields coordinated, presented, and discussed these topics with the attendees. The Education Programme sessions were alternated with plenary keynote lectures and other sessions, such as an interactive voting session on interesting cases, a Round Table discussion and a session jointly organised with the Iberian Cytometry Society (SIC) on The future of flow cytometry in Europe. Finally, 125 accepted abstracts were scheduled as poster presentation. Three abstracts that have received the highest ranking from the abstract reviewer committee have been nominated for the ESCCA Best Oral Award, and were presented in one of the plenary sessions. In addition the next best 18 best abstracts were presented during 3 poster walks. The abstracts of the keynote lectures and the poster abstracts are published in this issue of Clinical Cytometry. The abstracts are available as Online Supporting Information.