Greetings to all
members of the Division of Neurobiology and other interested readers.
I would like to introduce the new officers of the division. Dr. Jim
Murray, of the University of Central Arkansas, was elected as our new
division chair. Jim studies the neuroethology of orientation in
Tritonia. Dr. Duane McPherson of the Department of Biology at
SUNY Geneseo is the new program officer. Duane's interests
include work on the neurobiology and behavior of Aplysia. Dr.
Thomas Pirtle of Abilene Christian University is our new divisional
secretary, and is interested in the neuronal control of locomotion in
Clione.
We look forward to the
January 2008 meeting in San Antonio with another Recent
Developments in Neurobiology symposium being organized by Dr.
Kelly Suter of the University of Texas, San Antonio and Dr. Richard
Satterlie of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. We
acknowledge and thank the National Science Foundation support of the
upcoming symposium. Out of a total of 891 contributed abstracts, 38
fall into Neurobiology. Of these, 22 are posters and 16 are oral
presentations. This does not include the 18 oral presentations at
symposia (out of a total of 110); there are 10 oral presentations in
the Advances in Neurobiology symposium and 8 in the Electromyography
symposium. Of the contributed abstracts, 11 are contestants for the
Best Student Paper award (eight posters, three talks). That means,
we need some volunteers to help judge the presentations! It's
important and not difficult -- please contact Duane McPherson
(mcpherso@geneseo.edu)
if you are willing. Please note that the early fee registration
deadline is November 30, 2007. Finally, if you have an interesting
photomicrograph, the American Microscopical Society invites and
encourages you to enter it into the annual Ralph and Mildred
Buchsbaum Excellence in Photomicrography Contest. For more
information about this contest please contact Dr. John F. Pilger at
jpilger@agnesscott.edu.
Dr. Jenna Monroy, a
postdoctoral research associate with Drs. Kiisa Nishikawa and Stan
Lindstedt at Northern Arizona University has been appointed by
President John Pearse to represent our division on the Student
Postdoctoral Affairs Committee. She will begin her three year term
at the end of the annual SICB meeting in January 2008. We thank her
for her willingness to service in these areas.
Link to officer list on DNB page