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Call for Council Nominations - It is once again time to nominate some of your fellow members for election to the ISAC Council. The procedure provides for the Nominating Committee to assemble a slate of nominees consisting of at least two candidates for each position available. The deadline date for nominations is Friday, December 30. 

2012 ISAC Scholars Program - The ISAC Council is pleased announce that the Society is seeking new ISAC Scholars for 2012.  The ISAC Scholars program is designed to enhance the scientific and leadership experiences of emerging leaders in the field of cytometry.  Applications and supporting materials are due on December 31, 2011. 

Education Resources Available - A number of webcasts and slide sets from CYTO 2010 and 2011 Scientific Tutorials and PreCongress courses are available on ISAC’s website.  We are very grateful to the authors of these outstanding tutorials and talks for their generosity in allowing us to offer you their presentations.

Affymetrix Buying Flow Cytometry, Reagent Firm eBioscience - Affymetrix today announced a definitive agreement to buy eBioscience, a flow cytometry and immunoassay reagent firm. The deal is expected to provide the Santa Clara, Calif.-based microarray firm with commercial opportunities in post-genomic applications of immunology, oncology, cell biology, stem cell biology, and diagnostics.

Diffraction-Imaging Flow Cytometry Enables Rapid Cell Assay - new method allows fast, label-free cell classification by combining high-contrast image acquisition with automated analysis. This method could open doors for expanded clinical applications such as classification of blood and tumor cells based on their 3-D morphological features.

New Technology: Single-cell biological lasers - We show that fluorescent proteins in cells are a viable gain medium for optical amplification, and report the first successful realization of biological cell lasers based on green fluorescent protein (GFP). We demonstrate in vitro protein lasers using recombinant GFP solutions and introduce a laser based on single live cells expressing GFP.