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In 1997, Dr Sérgio Coutinho invited me to consider organizing, in 1998, a symposium to commemorate the ten years of flow cytomery in Brazil. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together several professionals who have contributed in someway to the development of this technology in our scientific milieu. The symposium took place between September 29-30, 1998 at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro and consisted of round-tables emphasizing the applications of flow citomery to some important fields including cytokines, membrane receptors, cellular functions, cancer and Aids. The scientific content of the meeting made it both unique and very informative. The discussion generated by the presentations highlighted the importance of flow cytomery as a tool for studying several phenomena in clinical as well as basic biological research.
Sincere acknowledgments are indispensable to the co-organizers Wilson Savino, Geraldo Pereira, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveria and especially to Marta Santiago for her invaluable assistance and extraordinary organizational acumen. We are equally grateful to all the speakers, administratrive assistans and participans Furthermore, none of this would have been possible without the generous financial and moral support provided by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute and Beckman-Colter, Brazil.
Álvaro Luiz Bertho
President of the Organizing Committee
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
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Date of issue
June 2000
