1997-98 Election Nominees

1997-98 Election Nominees

Divisional Offices
Proposed Amendments to the ASM Constitution and Bylaws

National Offices

The Nominating Committee has submitted the following slate of candidates for Society offices for the year 1 July 1997 through 30 June 1998. The election, by mail ballot, will take place in November 1996. Members of the Nominating Committee were David Schlessinger (chair), Toby Eisenstein, Judy Daly, Burton Pogell, Vincent Fischetti, David Persing, and William Summers.

President

Stanley Falkow, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

President-Elect

Stuart B. Levy, Tufts University Medical School, Boston, MA
Statement

John M. Matsen, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
Statement

Secretary
Anne Morris-Hooke, Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Treasurer
Samuel Kaplan, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston.

Divisional Offices

Divisional nominating committees have reported the following slates for group representatives, chairs-elect and alternate councilors to be voted on in the November elections. After serving a 1-year term as chair-elect, the candidate automatically becomes chair. The alternate councilor serves a 2-year term, and will substitute for the councilor as needed. Following the 2-year term, the alternate councilor becomes councilor.

Divisional Group I Representative (Diagnostic Microbiology & Epidemiology)

Gary T. Cole, Department of Microbiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo.

Diana L. Williams, Molecular Biology Research Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Divisional Group IV Representative (Molecular Microbiology, Physiology & Virology)

Susan Gottesman, Department of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD (Unopposed)

(A) Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Chair-Elect

Patrice Courvalin, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

(B) Microbial Pathogenesis

Chair-Elect

David W. Dyer, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Oklahoma University Health Science Center, Oklahoma City

Susan C. Straley, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Kentucky, Albert Chandler Medical Center, Lexington

Alternate Councilor

Richard F. Rest, Medical College of Penn and Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Penn.

Eduardo Groisman, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington Univeristy School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

(C) Clinical Microbiology

Chair-Elect

Ronald J. Zabransky, Clinical Microbiology Section, VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

W. Michael Dunne, Microbiology Division, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

(D) General Medical Microbiology

Chair-Elect

Susan E. H. West, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Madison, WI (unopposed)

Alternate Councilor

Richard Morrison, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama (unopposed)

(E) Immunology

Chair-Elect

Charles Czuprynski, Department of Pathological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Thomas Jerrells, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Toxicology, College of Pharmacology, Washington State University, Pullman

(F) Medical Mycology

Chair-Elect

Errol Reiss, Molecular Biology Section, Emerging Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA (unopposed)

Alternate Councilor

Kevin Hazen, Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville (unopposed)

(G) Mycoplasmology

Chair-Elect

Steven J. Geary, Department of Pathobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Shyh-Ching Lo, Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC.

(H) Genetics and Molecular Biology

Chair-Elect

Candidate(s) to be announced

Alternate Councilor

Candidate(s) to be announced

(I) General Microbiology

Chair-Elect

William R. Strohl, Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus

Mark J. McBride, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

(J) Morphology and Ultrastructure

Chair-Elect

Lori Graham, Department of Biology, St. Francis Xaviar Hospital, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Alternate Councilor

Robert Simmons, Department of Laboratory Imaging, Georgia State University, Atlanta

(K) Microbial Physiology and Metabolism

Chair-Elect

John W. Foster, Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile

John N. Reeve, Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus

(L) Nosocomial Infections

Chair-Elect

Candidate(s) to be announced.

Alternate Councilor

Candidate(s) to be announced

(M) Bacteriophage

Chair-Elect

Ryland Young, Department of Biochemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

David Friedman, Department of Microbiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

(N) Microbial Ecology

Chair-Elect

Thomas Kieft, Department of Biology, New Mexico Tech., Socorro.

Penny Arny, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Alternate Councilor

Tamar Backay, Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FL

(O) Fermentation and Biotechnology

Chair-Elect

Sima Sariaslani, Experimental Station, Dupont Company, Wilmington, Delaware

(P) Food Microbiology

Chair-Elect

Candidate(s) to be announced.

Alternate Councilor

Candidate(s) to be announced.

(Q) Environmental and General Applied Microbiology

Chair-Elect

Ricardo De Leon, Walter Quality Laboratory, Metropolitan Water District - Southern California, La Verne, CA

Satish K. Walia, Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Mich.

(R) Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Chair-Elect

Daniel Dykhuizen, Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Margaret A. Riley, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

(S) DNA Viruses

Chair-Elect

Daniel DiMaio, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

Rozanne M. Sandri-Goldin, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Univeristy of California School of Medicine, Irvine.

(T) RNA Viruses

Chair-Elect

Stuart T. Nichol, Molecular Biology Section, Special Pathogens Branch, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Dennis T. Brown, Cell Research Institute, University of Texas, Austin.

(U) Mycobacteriology

Chair-Elect

Gila Kaplan, Department of Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY.

Richard Wallace, Department of Microbiology, Center for Pulmonary Infectious Disease Control, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler.

(V) Clinical & Diagnostic Immunology

Chair-Elect

Jeffrey L. Rossio, AIDS Vaccine Program, NCI-FCRDC, Frederick, Maryland.

Alternate Councilor

Linda Cook, Immunology Laboratory, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA

William W. Ward, Department of Pathology, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas.

(W) Microbiology Education

Chair-Elect

Rodney Anderson, Department of Biology, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.

John Lennox, Department of Bioogy, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.

Honorary Membership

Chu-Chi Ming, Honorary Director, Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China.

Willis A. Wood, Vice-President and Principal Scientist, The Agouron Institute, La Jolla, Calif.

Proposed Amendments to the ASM Constitution and Bylaws

At the 1996 General Meeting, the ASM Council voted to recommend to the membership the following amendments to the ASM Constitution and Bylaws. Additions to the bylaws are shown in boldface type, and the sections to be deleted are enclosed in brackets [ ].

Article V, Section 1 be amended by adding the following sentence: "These Councilors may be re-elected to the Council Policy Committee at the end of their three-year term for up to one additional term."

Article VII, Section 3 be amended to change the composition of the Branch Organization Committee. The Council and the Chair of the Membership Board shall be assisted by a standing committee, the Branch Organization Committee, none of whom can be current elected Branch Officers: Branch Presidents, President-Elects, Secretaries, Treasurers, Councilors, and Alternate Councilors.

Article VII, Section 5 be amended by adding the following procedural statements: The terms of elected branch officers shall begin 1 July. Each branch shall transmit to the chair of the Membership Board the names of officers and standing committees within 3 weeks after their election but no later than December 1 and shall notify the Chair of the Membership Board promptly of any changes.

Article VII, Section 6 be clarified to read: A branch may include in its membership persons other than members of the Society, but such persons shall not be elected as branch officers. Nonmembers of ASM may have voting privileges in the branch, except they are not eligible to vote for, or serve, as the ASM Councilor or Alternate Councilor.

Article VII, Section 10 be amended to state that: Each branch must have at least one meeting annually within its territorial limits or with one or more other ASM branches within its region.

Article VIII, Section 8 be added to the ASM Bylaws and read: "A member may indicate annually a secondary non-voting division on an appropriate membership form or included with the dues notice. Secondary division membership will not count towards the minimum 150 members needed to form and maintain a division in good standing. Secondary membership shall not provide privileges for selection of Division Officers, Division Councilors, and Divisional Group Representatives. Members may hold elective office only in their primary division."

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