Re: Bad Flow Data & reviewing -- What can we do? Attend ISAC XXI !!

From: David Galbraith (galbraith@arizona.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 18:19:04 EST


Slightly to a tangent to this thread, can I strongly encourage all persons
producing flow cytometric data (or data from any type of cytology) to
submit this work for inclusion as a poster or oral presentation at the next
ISAC Congress, to be held May 4-9 2002 in San Diego.  The deadline for
abstracts has been extended for those wishing to be considered for Oral
Presentation to 1 November 2001. After 1 November 2001, only poster
presentation abstracts will be accepted. The deadline for all Poster
Presentation abstracts is 15 March 2002.  To submit an abstract you should
go directly to:
http://ams.cos.com/cgi-bin/conferenceToolkit/displayToolkit?institutionId=69
4&meetingId=64
or go to the ISAC Web site at http://www.isac-net.org, click on the green
Congress button and follow the Call for Abstracts.

I hope to see you all there, and this would be an excellent venue to
continue this discussion!

David

At 09:48 AM 10/23/2001 -0400, DARZYNKIEWICZ ZBIGNIEW wrote:

>To the ongoing discussion on bad data let me add my comments.
>First, I fully concur with all Paul Robinson's conclusions. The one word
>missing at the end was: "Amen"
>To help the authors to present their data in a meaningfull way and extract
>as much information as possible, I propose that the group of the most
>experienced colleagues will develop a page or two flier - Instructions to
>the authors - How to present your flow cytometric data. This has to be a be
>very thoughtfuly developed document. The input to it should be  sought from
>many experts in fields of immunology - cell cycle - apoptosis - graphics -
>statistics, perhaps even estethics. We have many such experts in the
>Editorial Boards of these journals. Howard Shapiro, Alice Givans, Mike
>Ormerod have already a lot of experience while preparing illustrations to
>their books. Once such document is prepared and agreed it should be
>distributed not only to Cytometry or CCC but  to other journals as well
>(Cancert Res, Science, Immunology) etc, with the request to the editors to
>include it to their "Instructions to Authors".
>I will be glad to co-ordinate this effeort - I will ask Paul Robinson and
>Harry Crissman as Co-editors. We will then co-opt other colleagues and start
>the work. I envisage that in the course of our work we present the
>developing instruction to this forum asking for comments. If you think its
>is a good idea - plese let me know.
>
>
>  Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz
>Brander Cancer Research Institute
>New York Medical College
>19 Bradhurst Ave.
>Hawthorne, NY 10532
>tel: 914-347-2801
>fax: 914-347-2804
>http://www.geocities.com/z_darzynkiewicz

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