Current protocols in Cytometry

Friends and Colleagues,

 

I am sending this note in my capacity as one of Editors of Current
Protocols in Cytometry (CPCy). My specific editorial tasks are focused
on protocols associated with analysis of nucleic acids (Chapter 7). I am
also interested in methods that relate to cell cycle and apoptosis. By
screening scientific literature and presentations at various meetings I
am trying to select methods to be included in CPCy to obtain
comprehensive collection of reliable protocols that can be of help to a
wide spectrum of researchers. However, there are limitations and biases
in scientific quest of each of us, and selection of protocols by a
single person suffers shortcomings, as some useful protocols may be
overlooked. I am calling, therefore, for your help. Specifically, I
would ask these of you who have an access to CPCy, to browse through the
protocols and seek for the method (on nucleic acid analysis, cell cycle
or apoptosis) that is not there, but was published, and/or successfully
tested, and you feel should be included in CPCy. When you find such
overlooked method please let me know and suggest the potential author(s)
that could prepare the protocol. The decision as to whether this author
will be invited will be made collegially by the CPCy Editors. Dr. J.
Paul Robinson, the Managing Editor of CPCy, and also President-elect of
ISAC, wants to increase participation of ISAC members in educational and
out-reach programs, and my present request goes in this direction. It is
in interest of all the Editors that CPCy, which is edited under auspices
of ISAC, to serve better to a wide community of researchers utilizing
cytometric methods. 

 

Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, M.D., Ph.D. 

darzynk@nymc.edu