Re: Name change versus practical applications

Good plan - lets call it  "We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It"	( or maybe Current Protocols in Cytometry, but I have a feeling that one's already taken)

On the whole, I don't have a problem with either the current name, or the content of the Journal (does it still incorporate BioImaging?), a scan of the contents page and maybe an abstract or two potentially exposes you to something you'd otherwise miss if there was a topic division - I missed out on quite a few interesting articles when I chose to subscribe only to cytometry A on the basis I'd not need to know much clinical stuff - imagine my chagrin when they put technical and theoretical stuff stuff in there from time to time :)


Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Burger" <rburger@miltenyibiotec.com>
To: cyto-inbox
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:30 PM
Subject: Name change versus practical applications


> I like Ray's comments and would suggest that there is a need for both a
> practical and theoretical journal. Why not start an new Journal called
> "Cytometry Methods" to carry, short, practical application-focused
> articles. 
> 
> Roger A. Burger, Ph.D.
> Technical Marketing Scientist
> Miltenyi Biotec, Inc.
> 12740 Earhart Ave.
> Auburn, CA 95602
> Phone: 530-887-5351
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> www.miltenyibiotec.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Hester [mailto:rhester@jaguar1.usouthal.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:50 AM
> To: cyto-inbox
> Subject: Re: Regarding the proposed name change for the Journal:
> "Cytometry"
> 
> 
> My 'problem' with the journal is not the name, but the content.  I find 
> it to have too many technical papers that I have a difficult time 
> understanding and that don't seem to be relevant to everyday usage in 
> our lab.
> 
> While it is true that if you are, e.g., an immunologist, you will find 
> lots of  papers with 'practical' flow cytometry and/or microscopy in The
> 
> Journal of Immunology. And the same is true for other areas of research
> 
> whether it be biochemistry, physiology, neuroscience - you name it.  
> Nevertheless, for some reason or other, I always open the latest issue 
> looking for practical papers - and rarely find them.	And by, 
> 'practical', I mean papers with cytometry used in a way that we use it 
> everday.
> 
> So my question is, does the cytometry community wish for not only the 
> name, but the _content_, as the journal is now composed, to stay the
> same?
> 
> If not, can anyone envision, as I do, a Cytometry with the table of 
> contents divided into subheadings such as the above mentioned areas 
> (immunology, biochemistry, neuroscience, etc.) as well as the 'Technical
> 
> Note" it now contains?
> 
> Ray Hester
> Univ. of South Alabama
> 
>