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J. GORDIN KAPLAN MEMORIAL ISSUE NUMERO COMMEMORATIF J. GORDIN KAPLAN This special issue of Biochemistry and Cell Biology is dedicated to our friend and colleague, J. Gordin Kaplan, who died on July 6, 1988. I think it is particularly appropriate that this memorial issue is being published by Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Gordin had a major impact on the evolution of this Journal and as a proponent of the disciplines of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in Canada. He was the President of the Canadian Society for Cell Biology (1971-1972), and of the Canadian Biochemical Society (1978-1979); coeditor (with Morris Kates) of this Journal from 1973-1981; President of the 11th International Congress of Biochemistry held in Toronto in 1979; and Chairman of the Program Committee for the 4th International Congress of Cell Biology held in Montreal in 1988. His leadership in initiating the formation of a permanent Science Lobby in Canada (with CFBS and CAUT) is only one more example of his many contributions to the development of science and education in our country. The last time I saw Gordin was in May of 1988, in Banff, at the 19th International Leucocyte Culture Conference, which Gordin had organized and chaired. Many of Gordin's former students and research associates were at that meeting and were prominent as symposium speakers, workshop leaders, and discussants. Gordin was obviously very proud of his "scientific offspring", and it was with this in mind that I concentrated on his students and postdoctoral collaborators in inviting contributions for this issue. In the issue you will find papers from Gordin's first two M.Sc. students at Dalhousie University during the early 1950s, from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who worked with Gordin at the University of Ottawa and the University of Alberta, as well as a few contributions from some of Gordin's other long- term research collaborators. In speaking and corresponding with these contributors during the preparation of this issue, our admiration and respect for Gordin as a scientist and social activist, our thanks to him for making us (perhaps) better scientists and people, our love for him as a warm and caring human being, and our memories of how he made science fun were recurrent themes. It is with these memories that we dedicate these papers to J. Gordin Kaplan. David L. Brown Special Editor Ce numtro special de Biochimie et biologie cellulaire est dCdiC a notre collkgue et arni, J. Gordin Kaplan, dCcCdC le 6 juillet 1988. Je pense qu'il est particulikrement approprik que ce numCro commCmoratif soit publie par Biochimie et biologie cellulaire. Gordin a joue un r81e important dans l'holution de cette revue et comme dCfenseur des disciplines de la biochimie et de la biologie cellulaire au Canada. I1 fut prCsident de la Socikte cana- dienne de biologie cellulaire (1971-1972) et de la SociCtC canadienne de biochimie (1978-1979); coCditeur (avec Morris Kates) de cette revue de 1973 a 1981; prCsident du 11 Congrks international de biochimie tenu a Toronto en 1979, et president du ComitC de programme pour le 4e Congrks international de biologie cellulaire tenu a MontrCal en 1988. Son leadership dans l'installation d'un lobby permanent des sciences au Canada (avec CFBS et CAUT) n'est qu'un autre exemple de ses nombreuses contributions au dheloppe- ment des sciences et a l'tducation dans notre pays. C'est en mai 1988, a Banff, que j'ai vu Gor.din pour la dernikre fois. I1 avait organise et prksidait la 19e ConfCrence internationale sur la culture des leucocytes. Plusieurs des anciens Ctudiants et associCs de recherche de Gordin participaient a cette confkrence a titre d'importants confkrenciers dans les symposiums, animateurs d'ateliers et participants dans les discussions. Manifestement, Gordin Ctait trks fier de sa progkniture scientifique )) et c'est pour cette raison que j'ai surtout fait appel a ses Ctudiants et col- laborateurs postdoctoraux dans la composition de ce numCro spCcial. Dans ce numCro, vous trouverez des articles des deux premiers Ctudiants a la maitrise de Gordin a 1'Univer- site Dalhousie au dCbut des annCes cinquante, des articles des Ctudiants graduCs et des Ctudiants postdoctoraux qui ont oeuvrk avec Gordin a 1'Universit.C d'Ottawa et a 1'UniversitC de l'Alberta, et aussi quelques con- tributions d'autres collaborateurs a long terme. Durant la preparation de ce numCro, nos conversations et notre correspondance avaient souvent pour thkme notre admiration et notre respect pour Gordin comme scientiste et animateur social, nos remerciements pour avoir fait peut-Ctre de nous de meilleurs scientistes et de meilleurs citoyens, notre amour pour cet Ctre humain chaleureux et attentif et notre souvenir d'une science qu'il savait rendre intkressante. Pour toutes ces raisons, nous dedions ces articles A J. Gordin Kaplan. David L. Brown ~diteur spkcial Biochem. Cell Biol. Downloaded from www.nrcresearchpress.com by Depository Services Program on 11/26/14 For personal use only.

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J. GORDIN KAPLAN MEMORIAL ISSUE NUMERO COMMEMORATIF J. GORDIN KAPLAN

This special issue of Biochemistry and Cell Biology is dedicated to our friend and colleague, J. Gordin Kaplan, who died on July 6, 1988.

I think it is particularly appropriate that this memorial issue is being published by Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Gordin had a major impact on the evolution of this Journal and as a proponent of the disciplines of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in Canada. He was the President of the Canadian Society for Cell Biology (1971-1972), and of the Canadian Biochemical Society (1978-1979); coeditor (with Morris Kates) of this Journal from 1973-1981; President of the 11th International Congress of Biochemistry held in Toronto in 1979; and Chairman of the Program Committee for the 4th International Congress of Cell Biology held in Montreal in 1988. His leadership in initiating the formation of a permanent Science Lobby in Canada (with CFBS and CAUT) is only one more example of his many contributions to the development of science and education in our country.

The last time I saw Gordin was in May of 1988, in Banff, at the 19th International Leucocyte Culture Conference, which Gordin had organized and chaired. Many of Gordin's former students and research associates were at that meeting and were prominent as symposium speakers, workshop leaders, and discussants. Gordin was obviously very proud of his "scientific offspring", and it was with this in mind that I concentrated on his students and postdoctoral collaborators in inviting contributions for this issue.

In the issue you will find papers from Gordin's first two M.Sc. students at Dalhousie University during the early 1950s, from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who worked with Gordin at the University of Ottawa and the University of Alberta, as well as a few contributions from some of Gordin's other long- term research collaborators. In speaking and corresponding with these contributors during the preparation of this issue, our admiration and respect for Gordin as a scientist and social activist, our thanks to him for making us (perhaps) better scientists and people, our love for him as a warm and caring human being, and our memories of how he made science fun were recurrent themes. It is with these memories that we dedicate these papers to J. Gordin Kaplan.

David L. Brown Special Editor

Ce numtro special de Biochimie et biologie cellulaire est dCdiC a notre collkgue et arni, J. Gordin Kaplan, dCcCdC le 6 juillet 1988.

Je pense qu'il est particulikrement approprik que ce numCro commCmoratif soit publie par Biochimie et biologie cellulaire. Gordin a joue un r81e important dans l'holution de cette revue et comme dCfenseur des disciplines de la biochimie et de la biologie cellulaire au Canada. I1 fut prCsident de la Socikte cana- dienne de biologie cellulaire (1971-1972) et de la SociCtC canadienne de biochimie (1978-1979); coCditeur (avec Morris Kates) de cette revue de 1973 a 1981; prCsident du 11 Congrks international de biochimie tenu a Toronto en 1979, et president du ComitC de programme pour le 4e Congrks international de biologie cellulaire tenu a MontrCal en 1988. Son leadership dans l'installation d'un lobby permanent des sciences au Canada (avec CFBS et CAUT) n'est qu'un autre exemple de ses nombreuses contributions au dheloppe- ment des sciences et a l'tducation dans notre pays.

C'est en mai 1988, a Banff, que j'ai vu Gor.din pour la dernikre fois. I1 avait organise et prksidait la 19e ConfCrence internationale sur la culture des leucocytes. Plusieurs des anciens Ctudiants et associCs de recherche de Gordin participaient a cette confkrence a titre d'importants confkrenciers dans les symposiums, animateurs d'ateliers et participants dans les discussions. Manifestement, Gordin Ctait trks fier de sa

progkniture scientifique )) et c'est pour cette raison que j'ai surtout fait appel a ses Ctudiants et col- laborateurs postdoctoraux dans la composition de ce numCro spCcial.

Dans ce numCro, vous trouverez des articles des deux premiers Ctudiants a la maitrise de Gordin a 1'Univer- site Dalhousie au dCbut des annCes cinquante, des articles des Ctudiants graduCs et des Ctudiants postdoctoraux qui ont oeuvrk avec Gordin a 1'Universit.C d'Ottawa et a 1'UniversitC de l'Alberta, et aussi quelques con- tributions d'autres collaborateurs a long terme. Durant la preparation de ce numCro, nos conversations et notre correspondance avaient souvent pour thkme notre admiration et notre respect pour Gordin comme scientiste et animateur social, nos remerciements pour avoir fait peut-Ctre de nous de meilleurs scientistes et de meilleurs citoyens, notre amour pour cet Ctre humain chaleureux et attentif et notre souvenir d'une science qu'il savait rendre intkressante. Pour toutes ces raisons, nous dedions ces articles A J. Gordin Kaplan.

David L. Brown ~di teur spkcial

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