EFCS Discussion Forum


Dear Colleagues,

The Cell Analysis Section of the Hungarian Biophysical Society (HBS-CAS) is not an independent society but is a section (working group) of the Hungarian Biophysical Society. We have approximately 70 active members, and usually organize a half a day or one day symposium during the annual meetings of the Hungarian Biophysical Society.

The executive board of HBS-CAS have discussed the proposals put on the mail list server and found them very interesting.

We welcome the foundation of European Cytometry Society, and we are in favour of the model where both corporate membership of national societies as well as personal membership of individual scientist do exist. We doubt that every member of the (HBS-CAS) HCS would join the ECS for technical and also for financial reasons. A few members will join the ECS for sure, similarly to the ISAC. Six of our members are also members of the ISAC. The corporate membership of the HBS-CAS will provide a nice channel for dissemination of information from the ECS to the other members of our working group.

Since Hungary would like to join the EC in the future joining of our national working group to the ECS is greatly justified.

The ECS should collaborate with ISAC, we would like to propose a joint meeting with ISAC when the ISAC meeting is planned in Europe!

The scope of Analytical Cellular Pathology journal will broaden with the foundation of ECS, and the number of submitted papers should increase. Although it should be mentioned that broadening the scope will result in increased competition with other journals such as Cytometry or Bioimaging.

Best Regards and Happy New Year!

Janos Szollosi, President of HBS-CAS
Laszlo Matyus, Secretary of HBS-CAS