ASPB’s International Affairs Committee invites you to visit their web
page at http://www.aspb.org/committees/international.cfm
for information and to see if you qualify for any need-based support:
• Need-Based Policy for Journal Subscriptions and the Textbook
• Policy for Support of Meetings, Workshops & Courses in Developing
Countries
Southern Section Election Results
SS-ASPB Representative to Executive Committee, Mel Oliver (USDA–ARS, Lubbock,
Texas)
Chair, Ruth (Alscher) Grene (Virginia Tech)
Vice Chair, Caryl Chlan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Secretary/Treasurer, Kent Burkey (USDA–ARS/North Carolina State University)
SS-ASPB Executive Committee, Tim Sherman (University of South Alabama)
2004 Meeting Site, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Call for 2003 Nominations for ASPB Awards will be sent to all members
in February.
Nominations are due at ASPB headquarters by Monday, March 3.
Questions should be addressed to John Lisack, Jr., executive director, at jlisack@aspb.org.
ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Thank you to all the students and advisers who applied for the ASPB Summer Undergraduate
Research Fellowships (SURF).
The closing date for applications is February 4, 2003. The names of students
selected to receive this fellowship will be announced soon.
For details see http://www.aspb.org/education/summerundergrad.cfm
or contact Elizabeth Daerr at elizabeth@aspb.org.
Submit e-Letters to Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell
ASPB has added a new feature to Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell
Online to make it easy for readers to comment on published papers. e-Letters
is a monitored forum for letters to the editor about papers published in the
two journals. A menu box at the beginning of each research article now includes
a link to e-Letters. By clicking on this link, readers can easily e-mail a letter
to the editor for possible publication online. All letters are monitored by
the editorial office and are circulated to editorial board members for review.
Readers can follow the correspondence regarding any paper by clicking on a
link on the opening page of the electronic journal. Letters are indexed by published
article and can be viewed according to author, time submitted, and title.
The editors hope that this feature will encourage thoughtful and constructive
dialogue on the scientific advances published in The Plant Cell and Plant
Physiology. They want to hear from you!
ASPB now accepts checks over the web.
It is simple and secure. We will accept your university, company, or personal
check. Just go online, fill out the web form, and put the check information
in the system. We will receive your order of renewal as soon as you hit the
submit button. This is for checks drawn on U.S. banks in US funds only. If you
have questions about this new service, please e-mail us at info@aspb.org.
The Arabidopsis Book
The American Society of Plant Biologists is pleased to announce The
Arabidopsis Book (TAB), a dynamic, fully electronic compilation of chapters
edited by Chris Somerville and Elliot Meyerowitz and available free of
charge on the Internet.
TAB offers a new model for scientific publishing. Each of its
100+ chapters will review in detail an important aspect of the plant Arabidopsis
thaliana, and the content will continually evolve as new information becomes
available, making TAB the most comprehensive and current work
on Arabidopsis.
ASPB is providing funds for the mounting and maintenance of The Arabidopsis
Book on the Internet as a public service. Please visit TAB at
www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis
for chapters currently available in PDF. Eventually all chapters and updates
will be hosted in partnership with BioOne (www.bioone.org)
in both HTML and PDF formats.
