General Information & Purpose of the Society
Membership Requirements
Divisions
Congress
Activities
Publications
Affiliations
Officers
Council
Committees
Society Office
In 1973, the Engineering Foundation began to sponsor a series of conferences to explore the utility of the new field of flow cytometry in biomedical research. At the 1978 Engineering Foundation Conference on Automated Cytology held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, West Germany, those present felt that there was enough interest in the field (there were over two hundred attendees at the conference) to form a new society, called the Society for Analytical Cytology. In 1991, with 1500 members enrolled, the Society changed its name to the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC) to reflect the international character of the Society.
The Society is a scientific and educational organization whose purpose is:
1. To promote research, development, and applications in analytical cytology. Analytical cytology is broadly defined as the characterization and measurement of cells and cellular constituents for biological, experimental, and therapeutic purposes. It embraces components of cytochemistry, cytophysics, anatomy, biology, physiology, pathology, image analysis, instrumentation, clinical laboratory practice, and other subjects of relevance.
2. To facilitate integration of the many disciplines with analytical cytology.
3. To disseminate knowledge of analytical cytology.
4. To provide information and advice on those aspects of public policy which are concerned with analytical cytology.
Membership in the Society is open to all persons who share the stated purposes of the Society and who have educational, research or practical experience in some aspect of analytical cytology. The Society has a student membership category available to persons enrolled in a degree program at an accredited school.
A candidate for membership must be sponsored by two members in good standing or may request direct sponsorship from the Council based on the information that the candidate provides in the application. A membership application can be printed and submitted by mail or fax.
The Clinical Cytometry Division of the International Society for Analytical Cytology was formed in March of 1993 to bring together those members of the Society who are interested in promoting the use of flow and image cytometry in clinical research and medicine. Membership in this Division is optional and requires a separate application. Contact the Society Office for details.
(CCD) Board
Peter Rabinovitch, Chair
Ken Bauer, Chair-elect
Greg Stelzer, Secretary
Betsy Ohlsson-Wilhelm, Treasurer
Mike Borowitz, Councilor
Bruno Brando, Councilor
Anne Hurley, Councilor
Tore Lindmo, Councilor
Günter Valet, Councilor
Leon Wheeless, Councilor
The Society holds an International Congress approximately every two years, moving among sites in the eastern and western US and in Europe. The Congress is a six day meeting with industrial and scientific tutorials, plenary, parallel and poster
sessions, and workshops. The Society has met 12 times since its organization:
July 1978 Schloss Elmau, Germany November 1979 Asilomar, California May 1981 Wentworth, New Hampshire October 1982 Schloss Elmau, Germany June 1984 Asilomar, California November 1985 Hilton Head, South Carolina August 1987 Cambridge, England September 1988 Breckenridge, Colorado March 1990 Asheville, North Carolina August 1991 Bergen, Norway March 1993 Colorado Springs, Colorado October, 1994 Lake Placid, New York
The Society sponsors several activities. One of these is the Specialty Training and Education Program (STEP) through which the Society helps its members obtain "on the job" training in a specific field of cytometry. The Society identifies laboratories capable and willing to participate in the project, assesses the quality of training provided, and makes the information available to its members.
Another project undertaken by the Society is to assist scientists in developing and transition economy countries in becoming members of ISAC, attending congresses, and in receiving specialized training. The Society also maintains a "Fund in Support of Developing and Transition Economy Countries".
The Membership Services Committee maintains a zero interest loan fund to provide start-up funds for member groups to organize specialty meetings such as consensus workshops. This Committee also provides support for students to attend the Society's Congress.
For further information on any of these activities, please contact the Society Office.
The Society's next meeting will be in Rimini, Italy in April of 1996, followed by congresses in Colorado Springs, USA in 1998 and in Montpellier, France in the year 2000.
The Society's journal, Cytometry, is published monthly by Wiley-Liss. In 1994, the Society issued a new section of the journal, Communications in Clinical Cytometry, and this year it will produce the first issue of Current Protocols in Cytometry.
Cytometry;
Editor: Brian H. Mayall
Box 0808, MCB 230
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0808
Telephone: (415) 476-6683
FAX: (415) 476-5106
e-mail: cytometry@dmc.ucsf.edu
Communications in Clinical Cytometry;
Co-Editors: Mariano La Via and John Parker
Mariano La Via
P.O. Box 39778
Charleston, South Carolina 29407
Telephone: (803) 792-3216
FAX: (803)792-3814
e-mail: hiotts@pathol.mhs.musc.edu
John Parker
USC School of Medicine
2250 Alcazar Street. CSC 108
Los Angeles, CA 90033-4523
Telephone: (213)342-2920
Fax: (213)342-2990
e-mail: tedlock@pathfinder.hsc.usc.edu
Affiliations
At this time, three societies have formal affiliations with the International Society for Analytical Cytology: The Australasian Flow Cytometry Group, the Clinical Cytometry Society, and the Chesapeake Cytometry Consortium. The Society also interacts closely with many other regional, national and international organizations.
Officers of the Society
President (term of office expiration date: 4/96)
Francesco Mauro
ENEA
Environmental Department
C.R.E. Casaccia
S. Maria di Galeria
00060 Rome, Italy
Telephone: 39/6-30483547
Fax: 39/6-30484630
e-mail: mauro_f@casaccia.enea.it
Secretary (4/96)
Phillip N. Dean
2163 Mercury Road
Livermore, CA 94550, USA
Telephone: (510) 455-4261
Fax: (510) 455-9619
e-mail: dean@hawaii.llnl.gov
Treasurer (4/96)
Lisa Staiano-Coico
The New York Hospital
Cornell Medical Center
Dept. of Surgery Room A-l023
1300 York Avenue
New York,NY 10021,USA
Telephone: (212)746-6417
Fax: (212)746-8467
e-mail: lisasc@mail.med.cornell.edu
President-Elect (4/96)
Joe Gray
Division of Molecular Cytometry
Department of Lab Medicine
UC San Francisco
MCB230, Box 0808
San Francisco, CA 94143-0808, USA
Telephone: (415)475-3461
Fax: (415)475-8218
e-mail: gray@dmc.ucsf.edu
Past President
Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz
Cancer Research Institute
New York Medical College
100 Grasslands Road
Elmsford,NY 10523,USA
Telephone: (914)347-2801
Fax: (91 4) 347-2804
e-mail: darzynk@nymc.edu
Past Presidents of the Society
Mortimer L. Mendelsohn
Myron R. Melamed
Paul F. Mullaney
Leon L. Wheeless, Jr.
Paul K. Horan
Donna J. Arndt-Jovin
L.Scott Cram
Kenneth A. Ault
Ole Didrik Laerum
Bart Gledhill
Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz
The Society is governed by a Council consisting of the officers and nine Councilors, each Councilor serving for three terms.
Councilors (term of office expiration date)
Betsy M. Ohlsson-Wilhelm (4/96)
Director, Biology
Therapeutics Division
Zynaxis, Inc.
371 Phoenixville Pike
Malvern,PA 19355,USA
Telephone: (610)889-5753
Fax: (610) 889-2222
Günter K. Valet (3/98)
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie
Cell Biochemistry Laboratory
D8033 Martinsried, Germany
Telephone: 49/89-85782518
Fax: 49/89-85782563
e-mail: valet@vms.biochem.mpg.de
Michael C. Ormerod (4/96)
34 Wray Park Road
RH2 ODE Reigate
Surrey
United Kingdom
Telephone: 44/737-241726
Fax: 44/737-241726
Francis Lacombe (5/2000)
Laboratoire d'Hematologie
Hospital Haut Leveque
33604 Pessac, France
Telephone: 33/55-556464
Fax: 33/55-556809
Stefano Papa (4/96)
Istituto di Scienze Morfologiche
Via M. Oddi 23
51029 Urbino (PS), Italy
Telephone: 39/722-328033
Fax: 39/722-329655
Hiromitsu Nakauchi (5/2000)
Laboratory of Cell Growth
and Differentiation
Riken 3-1-1 Koyadai
Tsukuba 305, Japan
Telephone: 81/298-363722
Fax: 81/298-369090
Gary C. Salzman (3/98)
Life Sciences Division
LS-l MS M888
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Telephone: (505) 667-5503
Fax: (505) 665-3024
e-mail: salzman@lanl.gov
Maria C. Pallavicini (5/2000)
Division of Molecular Cytometry
Department of Laboratory Medicine
UC San Francisco
MCB 230, Box 0808
San Francisco, CA 94143-0808, USA
Telephone: (41 5) 476-3440
Fax: (415)476-8818
e-mail: pallavicini@dmc.ucsf.edu
Douglas E. Swartzendruber (3/98)
Chair, Dept. of Biology
Univ. of CO @ Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918-3733, USA
Telephone: (719)593-3181
Fax: (719)593-l239
e-mail: deswartzen@uccs.edu
Brian Mayall, Editor-in-Chief
Division of Molecular Cytometry
Department of Lab Medicine
UC San Francisco
MCB 230, Box 0808
San Francisco, CA 94143-0808, USA
Telephone: (415) 475-9122
Fax: (41 5) 475-5106
e-mail: mayall@dmc.ucsf.edu
The Society has four standing committees dedicated to serving the needs of its members: Finance, Membership Services, Nominating, and Scientific Advisory.
Committees established pro tempore by Council include: Constitutional, Site Selection, Committee for Support of Developing & Transition-Economy Countries, Clinical Standards, Council of Affiliated and Federated Cytometry Societies, Data File Standards, Accreditation, Awards, Distinguished Lecture (Robert Hooke), Scientific Communications, Editor of Cytometry Search, STEP, Member Application Contacts, Public Communications, and International Liaisons.
See the committee roster for a detailed list of all committee members and contact information for committee chairs.
Justine J. Parker, Executive Director
e-mail: jparker@colorado.net
Linda Otto, Membership Services
e-mail: linda@colorado.net
Jeff Blum, Accounting/ Committee Administrator
e-mail: jeff@colorado.net
Carol Eckenwiler, Exhibit/ Poster Administrator
e-mail: carol@colorado.net
Telelphone (970) 453-2058 or (970) 453-1894
Facsimile (970) 453-2636
General Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 7849
Breckenridge, CO 80424
Express Mailing Address:
540 S. Ridge. St.
Unit A
Breckenridge, CO 80424
revised: Wed Feb 7 16:55:19 PST 1996