The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Inner (Cellular) Galaxies: Cytology, Cytometry, Cytomics, Cellomics and Kinomics.

Abstract

The Fluorescence, Flow Cytometry and Cytomics symposium welcomes you to this excursion into instrumental methods of deciphering these inner galaxies of biology (with due apology to the late Douglas Adams) [1]. It has usually been our intention to review some of the instrumental improvements in flow cytometry, multiparameter fluorescence detection and correlative aspects of microscopy with confocal and other laser or fluorescence microscopies [2]. We will continue to do this, and we will have excellent instrumental presentations. It is time to improve our perspective of just what we are looking for. There is grandeur in these views of life, even from the microscopical view alone, and these universes only get better as instruments improve.