The election of the 2017 – 2018 ISB Executive Committee (EC) took place last October. Please join us again in giving a warm welcome to Nicole Vasilevsky and Rama Balakrishnan to the Executive Committee, and congratulating Sylvain Poux for his reelection.

Cecilia Arighi has been elected as the new Chair of ISB, Nicole Vasilevsky is the new Secretary, and Sandra Orchard continues serving as Treasurer for the 2017-2018 period. The Executive Committee is also composed by Suzanna Lewis, Peter McQuilton, Andrew Su, and Zhang Zhang. As always, please reach out to any of us on the ISB EC as your representatives. The official handover date for the new EC took place November 1st.

After many years of service to the Biocuration community as members of the ISB Executive Committee, we bid farewell to Melissa Haendel and Monica Munoz-Torres. We are thankful for their invaluable contributions to the improvement of the International Society for Biocuration.

We again would like to thank all the candidates for their time and effort in running for election, and of course, all the ISB members who voted. Your participation in the society’s activities is greatly appreciated. We would like to also thank this year’s volunteers which oversaw the electoral process:

• 2017 Nominating Committee: Pascale Gaudet, Stanley Laulederkind,  Raja Mazumder, Elvira Mitraka, and Randi Vita.
• Elections Officer: Mary Ann Tuli
• Membership Officer: Lorna Richardson

The results of the 2017 Elections of the
ISB Executive Committee are in!

Congratulations to 
Dr. Rama Balakrishnan, Dr. Nicole Vasilevsky,
and Dr. Sylvain Poux!

 

We express our sincere gratitude to all ISB members who participated in this year’s electoral process with your vote. One hundred and four out of 226 eligible ISB members voted in this year’s election; a breakdown of the votes we captured is attached.

Your votes have elected Rama and Nicole as new members, and re-elected Sylvain for a second term in the Executive Committee. Rama and Nicole will fill two open positions when the terms of Monica Munoz-Torres and Melissa Haendel come to completion on 31-October-2017.

We would like to also express our sincere gratitude to the rest of the nominated candidates who considered volunteering their time as part of the ISB-EC this year:

Dr. Sirarat Sarntivijai, Dr. Taner Z Sen, and
Dr. Christopher Southan.

We are also very grateful with the following ISB members who volunteered their time for a successful execution of the 2017 EC election:

• 2017 Nominating Committee: Pascale Gaudet, Stanley Laulederkind,  Raja Mazumder, Elvira Mitraka, and Randi Vita.
  
• Elections Officer: Mary Ann Tuli
• Membership Officer: Lorna Richardson

Thank you again for participating in the 2017 ISB Electoral Process!

Sincerely,
Your Colleagues at the ISB Executive Committee. 

The results of the 2016 Elections of the
ISB Executive Committee are in!

Congratulations to
Dr. Peter McQuilton and Dr. Andrew Su!

 

We express our sincere gratitude to all ISB members who participated in this year’s electoral process with your vote. One hundred and thirty four out of 269 eligible ISB members voted in this year’s election.

Your vote has elected Peter and Andrew to take the two EC positions that will be open when the terms of Claire O’Donovan and Mike Cherry come to completion on 31-October-2016.

Please join us in thanking Claire and Mike for all their work over the past six years!

We would like to also express our sincere gratitude to the rest of the nominated candidates who considered volunteering their time as part of the ISB-EC this year:

Nicole Vasilevsky, Chris Hunter, Lynn Schriml, Peter Uetz, and Jasmine Young.

We are also very grateful with these ISB members who volunteered their time for a successful execution of the 2016 EC election:

• 2016 Nominating Committee: Kimberly Van Auken, Frederic Bastian, Doug Howe, Ruth Lovering, and Jingchu Luo.
• Elections Officer: Mary Ann Tuli
• Membership Officer: Lorna Richardson

Thank you again for participating in the 2016 ISB Electoral Process!

Your colleagues at the ISB Executive Committee.