ISAC elections, Budapest Congress etc.

Greetings,

Laura Teodori and I are the current cochairs of the ISAC Membership Services
Committee,  I am not on council and therefore not party to financial
information as to who is or is not staying at the official Congress hotel. I
do however know that Laura, who is on council, is paying her own way, and
staying in a cheap hotel (42 euros) in Budapest. 

As MSC chairs, We have distributed travel funds, as for every congress, to 
help as many students as possible come to congress from less developed countries 
as well as North Americans and Europeans. For Budapest we are helping 57 students 
from around the world, with just enough money to get their cheap airfare and 
a cheap hotel or hostel and student registration. In addition, We have 18  students
and young investigators in the ISAC Scholar's program who have travel funds
earmarked for Congress, funds which are solicited from generous donors from
outside sources cited on the ISAC web site. We also have a special fund for
this Congress to help pay registration and a little travel money for
investigators from the Eastern european countries, from Poland to Russia and
down to Turkey, so that they are able to attend Congress that is being held
in their part of the world. Application deadlines for all  these travel
funds have been posted and available on the Congress Web site. 

We  pushed to have the links for cheap hotels and hostel information  posted on the
Congress website to make this Congress more accessible to students and
investigators from less advantaged countries. We agree that this Congress is
far and expensive. We have been doing whatever we can to help those least
able to afford it to join us there. We agree with Bob Zucker that the
valuable educational aspect of Congress should be available to those members
who cannot attend, and that  this information as well as education and web
based learning responsibilities of ISAC are of the highest priority for the
immediate future.We take this opportunity to put in a plug for the MSC
sponsored Professional Skills Workshop at Budapest, geared towards students
with talks by illustrious ISAC speakers on topics such as oral
presentations, what a journal looks for in a paper, how to prepare US and
European grant applications.

As your membership services cochairs (until Budapest) Laura and I are happy
to have your input.


Zosia Maciorowski
Service de Cytometrie en Flux
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Institut Curie
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