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The decision to form a Society for analytical cytology grew out of a series of Engineering Foundation Conferences on Automated Cytology.
During the fifth conference, held from December 12-17,1976 in Pensacola, Florida, the attendees agreed that the formation of a Society would provide professional continuity to the field and promote the continuation of the conference series, which
had been very successful.
As a result, the organizing committee of the sixth conference, held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, Germany, in 1978 (see photo), was empowered to create the Society with the following purpose:
To promote research, development, and applications in analytical cytometry. Analytical cytometry is broadly defined as the characterization and measurement of cells and cellular constituents for biological, diagnostic, and therapeutic purposes. It
embraces components of cytochemistry, cytophysics, anatomy, biology, physiology, pathology, image analysis, instrumentation, clinical laboratory practice, and other subjects of relevance.
To facilitate integration of the many disciplines within analytical cytometry.
To disseminate knowledge of analytical cytometry.
To provide information and advice on those aspects of public policy which are concerned with analytical cytometry.
The officers and councilors of the new Society were:
President: Mortimer L. Mendelsohn President-Elect: Myron R. Melamed Honorary Past President: Thomas M. Jovin Secretary/Treasurer: L. Scott Cram Editor: Brian H. Mayall Councilors: Peter H. Bartels, J.S. Ploem, Mack J. Fulwyler, James H. Tucker, Klaus Goerttler, Marvin A. Van Dilla, Paul Mullaney, Leon L. Wheeless, Ian T. Young
The proposed constitution and bylaws were approved by a wide margin and became official in early 1979. The Society was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation on October 6, 1980. The Council decided to hold the first Society meeting under the sponsorship
of the Engineering Foundation, which turned out to be the last conference the foundation sponsored. The Society sponsored its own conference for the first time in 1981 in Wentworth, New Hampshire, and has done so ever since.
As interest in the Society grew it became the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), and in 2006 was renamed the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry. Two articles in Cytometry A by by Phillip N. Dean (published
March 1996 and January 2004) and one by Brian Mayall (published January 2004) provide details of the Society and journal's first 25 years.
Jonni Moore - University of Pennsylvania Andrea Cossarizza - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Paul K. Wallace - Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Andreas Radbruch - Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin John P. Nolan
- La Jolla Bioengineering Institute Paul J. Smith - Cardiff University Robert F. Murphy - Carnegie Mellon University J. Paul Robinson - Purdue University Maria Pallavicini - University of California Merced Harry Crissman
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Lisa Staiano-Coico - Temple University James Watson - Cambridge University Joe W. Gray - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Francesco Mauro - ENEA Environ Department Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz
- New York Medical College Barton L. Gledhill - Lawrence Livermore National Lab Ole Didrik Laerum - Univ of Bergen Haukeland Hospital, Gade Institute Kenneth Ault - Maine Medical Center L. Scott Cram - Los Alamos National Laboratory Donna Arndt-Jovin - Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Paul Karl Horan - Zynaxis Cell Science, Inc. Leon L. Wheeless - University of Rochester Medical Center Paul Mullaney - Oakridge National Laboratory Myron
R. Melamed - New York Medical College Tom Jovin - Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry