Flow (and Other) Cytometry in Microbiology: Cytometry Special

Howard Shapiro (hms@shapirolab.com)
Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:34:31 -0400 (EDT)

Harald Steen and I have been asked by Brian Mayall to put together a Special
Issue of Cytometry on the subject of Cytometry in Microbiology. While we
have worked in that area for a long time, and know many of the other people
who do, we felt it would be appropriate to cast a wide net (or micropore
filter) for those whose work we might have missed.

If you are working in the area of cytometry of microorganisms (definitely
including bacteria, fungi, and viruses; by extension including parasites and
other single small particles such as organelles, microvesicles, and nucleic
acid molecules), we'd like to know (besides who you are and where you're at):
1. What is (are) the biological problem(s) you are trying to solve?
2. What samples are you looking at (sources, species, etc.)
3. What equipment are you using?
4. What parameters are you measuring?
a. With which reagents? Are they commercially available?
b. With which preparative techniques?
5. Which data analysis methods do you apply?
6. Are any of your analyses
a. Indispensable to your microbiological (or biochemical, etc.) colleagues?
b. Routine?
c. Reimbursable?

If you aren't working in the area, but know one or more people who are,
please pass this along to them.

Replies by e-mail would be most convenient; you can also reach me by fax at
(617)576-0662 or by mail at 283 Highland Ave., West Newton, MA 02165-2513.
Both Harald and I will be at Rimini, but, if you're planning to buttonhole
us there, bring hard copy. We're not getting any younger.

After a decent but not overlong interval, we will probably try to dragoon
groups of recipients into collaborating on review articles and solicit
submissions from others, so be forthcoming.

Thanks in advance,

Howard


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