XXXI National Conference of the Italian Society of Cytometry (GIC) October 8–11, 2013, Lucca, Italy

This year, the Conference has been preceded by a half a day satellite event devoted to the establishment of the “Professional Certification GIC Register” which will be committed to test, train, certify, and monitor the professional levels of the “Italian Cytometrists” under the responsibility of GIC.As dfar as "Professional Qualification” is concerned, authors summarized the strategic importance in Italy (as everywhere in the world) to apply a “formal-serious-system” to take care and guarantee the high Professional level of people (Beginners as well as Seniors) involved in the area of analytical cytometry especially those having clinical impacts. The “national governance” should have in mind the patients’ care and the scientific society will have a crucial role in these initiatives. With regard to “The role of Flow Cytometry in the immunophenotyping of Acute Leukemia.” authors delivered extensive details of what the board of this Project did in the recent past and what the enrolled “Expert Committee” is doing in the evaluation of the selected literature, in order to define future steps of the activity, which is the real impact of Flow Cytometry in this very important and promising area of this technology application.