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20 years of the German Society for Cytometry: Past and future concepts
Author(s) -
Valet Günter,
Endl Elmar,
Müller Susann
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cytometry part a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.316
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1552-4930
pISSN - 1552-4922
DOI - 10.1002/cyto.a.21141
Subject(s) - german , flow cytometry , cytometry , library science , political science , biology , sociology , computer science , immunology , history , archaeology
THE German Society for Cytometry (Deutsche Gesellschaft f€ ur Zytometrie, DGfZ) celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2010. The society was founded 1990 in an effort to strengthen the scientific potential of the cytometry discipline in Germany and to ease research relationships with other European societies and international partners. The society has developed continuing scientific leadership with a high proportion of young scientists from various backgrounds in the awareness of the future challenges and potential of cytometry for the systemic and methodological molecular analysis of heterogeneous cell systems. The 20th annual conference honored the achievements of scientists who developed basic physical and cell biological principles of cytometry in the past and focused on integrated ideas to promote developments further in single-cell analytics (www.dgfz.org). It seems important to recall the foundation of various scientific societies in Europe during the pioneer era of cytometry, which led to the now very successful and internationally interlinked cell based research as well as to new concepts.