Dear Colleagues As usual, I am sending you a state-of-cytometry message - Firstly I wish all of you the best wishes of the season and a productive and successful new year. 2005 is a very important year. It is the 40th anniversary of Mack Fulwyler’s great achievement of the electrostatic cell sorter demonstration in 1965. I hope that many of you will come to the ISAC congress and see one of the original instruments made by Mack in 1967. It will be at the meeting for you to see and touch!!! An icon in cytometry indeed. The discussion list now is an institution in the field of cytometry. Steve Kelley has maintained this for the benefit of all. I am grateful that you, as a community of sciece are such strong supporters and users of this communication portal. It has been good for cytometry. So who are this years winners of the clickiest keybords? 37 messages: Guy Hermans 35 messages: Howard Shapiro 34 messages: Uriel TK, JPaul Robinson 31 messages: Joanne Lannigan 29 messages: G. Nebe-Von-Caron 23 messages: Derek Davies 21 messages: Calman Prussin 20 messages: Timothy Bushnell 17 messages: Mario Roederer, Rachel Gerstein, Marti Bigos Howard has been deposed - long live Howard! 405 authors submitted 1 message 123 authors submitted 2 messages 77 authors submitted 3 messages 46 authors submitted 4 messages 27 authors submitted 5 messages 28 authors submitted 6 messages 14 authors submitted 7 messages 6 authors submitted 8 messages 9 authors submitted 9 messages 4 authors submitted 10 messages 2 authors submitted 11 messages 3 authors submitted 12 messages 2 authors submitted 13 messages 1 authors submitted 14 messages 3 authors submitted 15 messages 3 authors submitted 16 messages 3 authors submitted 17 messages 1 authors submitted 20 messages 1 authors submitted 21 messages 1 authors submitted 23 messages 1 authors submitted 29 messages 1 authors submitted 31 messages 2 authors submitted 34 messages 1 authors submitted 35 messages 1 authors submitted 37 message We had 2141 messages for 2005 up to today: Jan 185 Feb 208 Mar 220 Apr 197 May 143 Jun 153 Jul 170 Aug 156 Sep 182 Oct 229 Nov 217 Dec 81 765 individual contributing authors is outstanding. There are currently 2635 members with active addresses. 200 members with bad addresses were deleted in September (we do this every few months)- if a friend no longer gets the list you know why. The net gain of members over 2005 was 257 new subscribers. I am excited to tell you that many of those new subscribers have joined ISAC as well. In other news, 2005 was a changing year for ISAC. The ISAC website is now managed by Purdue and Dr. Bartek Rajwa was appointed as web editor. He also edits the congress website. I hope you have seen the dramatic improvement in the state of the ISAC web. The new website has taken off! in the past 6 months there have been a total of 100,000 accesses. This is an enormous increase and I hope that you find what you need and if you don't you tell us!! It will take time to get this site perfect - but that is our goal....we know that there are some changes some dont like, but that is what progress is about. Our PUCL environment has also changed this year. After 17 years in the basement of Hansen Hall at Purdue, PUCL has moved into a beautiful new institute - the Bindley Bioscience Center. It has huge windows!! What a change for us - moving our entire group across the campus has caused us some headaches and a few glitches for our website and a couple for the discussion list- we think we have it all under control. After 0ver 20 years in a basement - I now live in an office that has an entire wall of glass!! Regardless, the PUCL environment is changing like the rest of the world - its a good thing I think. The ISAC Congress in on May 20-24, 2006. So far over 225 abstracts were submitted for oral presentations. Abstract submission for posters closes on Feb 1 (and if we see outstanding potential oral presentations in these we can still put then up as talks). Now is the time to work out your travel and funding arrangements. I hope that many of you who are not members of ISAC will consider joining ISAC to get the significant saving in registration fees. Quebec City will be really nice in May - you will enjoy the congress. I look forward to personally meeting with many of you. Please contact me directly if you have questions - I would be delighted to answer them. Go to www.isac.com for info on the congress. So, thanks to you all for your participation in the cytometry discussion this year. Cytometry and cytomics are in a good state - best wishes to you all. Kind regards Paul -- J. Paul Robinson Professor of Immunopharmacology Professor of Biomedical Engineering Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories Bindley Bioscience Center Discovery Park, Purdue University Ph (765) 494 0757; Fax (765) 494 0517 email: wombat@purdue.edu www.cyto.purdue.edu -- End --Received on Thu Dec 22 17:58:00 2005
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