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Thank you ISAC Members for having confidence in this team! All 7 of our team on Council!

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks for electing this outstanding team of ISAC memebers! We are very grateful for your support and now we know that you will be watching us to make sure we do what we said we would do. You can be sure that this team will maintain our promises! We are here to rebuild your society into a tower of strength in the technology community. We believe in what we are doing and we will put serious effort into bringing ISAC, once again, into the forefront of scientific societies. We need your help. We need to grow from our shrunken 1440 membership back to 2000 members within 2 years! How can we do that? You need to be proactive. Ask your colleagues to rethink their committments. Re-join ISAC and be a part of the change. Encourage your students and postdocs to join. Encourage your company to particpate in the next congress!

OK, its down to work. Bob Zucker and myself will represent you on the executive team, Laura, Lori, Alex and Janos will represent you on the council. We join with Bob Murphy and Julie Auger, both outstanding ISAC members, as the existing council team of Paul Smith, John Nolan, Jan Gratma and the President Maria Pallavicini and Treasurer Frank Traganos to revitalize ISAC!!

We will leave this page and all our promises right here. You can check them as you like. We will try to put little note here as we accomplish each task. Please email us (check the "contact" place at the bottom of hte page.

Thanks again for your support, J. Paul Robinson, President-elect

Dear Colleagues,

We have put a lot of thought into how ISAC needs to better engage itself with its members.

ISAC had a strong history with a rapid growth from just a few members in the late 1970s to almost 2000 members around 1998. However, the membership has slipped to less than 1450 members at present. The organization itself appears to be struggling to maintain identify with the membership and has not been able to bring in new members at a rate to maintain a reasonable growth or even stability. Times are changing and I believe that the organization is not as responsive as it should be to the changing face of science and technology around us. We believe that ISAC needs to respond to these changes and revitalize itself.

ISAC can play an important part in this new integration. The Society must recognize the changing environment and shift its position to support and manage this change.

J. Paul Robinson & Robert Zucker

 

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Latest news: The following candidates were elected to council: Janos Szöllösi, Technology Councilor! Laura Teodori from Italy, Biological Councilor, Julie Auger, Biological Councilor, Lori Krueger, Clinical Councilor, Alex Nakeff, Clinical Councilor, Bob Murphy, Biological Councilor.

 
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J. Paul Robinson
ELECTED
President-elect
 
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Robert Zucker
ELECTED
Secretary

Goals and Objectives

There are several key things that ISAC needs to do better:
  1. It should better recognize the vitality and importance of students and young members. This is more than providing a few travel fellowships. It must make the next generation of scientists the most important resource the Society has. If we are voted in as President-Elect and Secretary, our tenure will focus on building student, postdoc and junior faculty level membership with active participation in the Society activities, including appointment to committees, responsibility for organization of student activities at our meetings, etc. We cannot survive as a society with 15 student members as we do now. We should have 100-150 student/postdoc members. I will drive this process with a well thought through action plan.
  2. We have an outstanding number of high quality core facility managers and very talented technologists in our society. We have significant technical issues that we deal with on a daily basis and I think these issues should be treated at a much higher value level by ISAC. This aspect of Society activity should be elevated because there is a tremendous level of knowledge in this group and the society can also contribute to the support of these members. Core managers are a key component of our organization and they are one of the best assets we have. ISAC needs to create a platform from which core managers can be supported philosophically and practically so that they can better interact with their respective institutions. These people provide a majority of us with quality technology environments. We must give significant support to this group.
  3. We will raise the level of importance of education and training to the forefront of Society activities. As educators, we believe that we have a great opportunity that is not presently realized. Education should be seen as one of the most important functions of the Society. We believe that more must be done.
  4. We will require fiscal responsibility in the ISAC organization and re-focus the organization from a management-focused organization to a membership-focused Society. We spend more money on less people that we have ever spent. The cost of current meetings is unreasonable. Between-congress meetings must have a greater impact on the Cytomics scientific community. We will have to be more careful with YOUR money. We should be proactive and participatory.
  5. We will maintain a constant and open interaction with the membership. You will have direct access to each of us. Our emails are posted beside each of our election policies and we will always try to respond to your concerns. We are a small Society – so we need to be participatory and constantly active.
  6. We will drive a program to solicit new members with knowledge and interests that will enrich ISAC.
  7. We will strive to bring the ISAC organization into a position where it interacts with, and impacts other societies and current science policy issues. We value diversity and cultural differences greatly as well as international cooperation.
  8. We will report directly to the membership on a frequent basis, and we will seek the opinions and ideas of members.
  9. We will explore ways in which there can be more direct involvement of our ISAC members with members of other societies
  10. We will implement the ISAC strategic plan. ISAC developed this lueprint for the future over 3 years ago. We will first place that plan on the website for all to review. We will seek your input to implement that plan - our survival depends on it.

We request your vote for J. Paul Robinson for President-elect, and for Robert Zucker for Secretary. In addition, Alex Nakeff (running for Clinical Councilor), Lori Krueger (running for Clinical Councilor), Attila Tárnok and Laura Teodori (running for Biological Councilor), and Janos Szöllösi (running for Cytometric Technology Councilor) support this plan. We have carefully considered how we can serve ISAC as part of the executive team and council members. We have thought through these issues together and we think we have good ideas, energy and opportunity. All candidates listed here support the above platform.

J. Paul Robinson & Robert Zucker
Key proposals

The longevity of an organization depends upon 3 key aspects:

  • The scientific integrity/ awareness of the organization
  • The public perception and recognition of that organization
  • Quality of communication with the membership

We propose to initiate changes within the organization that address the above issues in six areas:

  1. Addressing changes in scientific direction- Continuing to work toward Cytomics Integration
  2. Developing a new component within the organization that address public science policy
  3. Addressing Recognitions and Awards issues particularly with respect to better recognition of technologists
  4. Education and Training: Implementing a serious policy
  5. Establishing a solid Core Managers Committee
  6. Addressing fiscal issues - costs of meetings and operations

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