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July 2012 • Volume 46 • Number 7
Bennett and Palm Elected to Serve on APS Council APS would like to congratulate Rick Bennett, University of Arkansas, elected vice president (to serve as president in 2014–2015), and Mary Palm, USDA APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ), elected councilor-at-large for a three-year term. Both officers will begin their terms following the 2012 APS Annual Meeting in Providence, RI. Bennett is a professor and head of the Rick Bennett Mary Palm Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR. Palm is acting branch chief, National Identification Services, USDA APHIS, PPQ, in Riverdale, MD. Complete biographic sketches, as well as personal statements of leadership, appeared in the May 2012 issue of Phytopathology News (Vol. 46, No. 5). n
Formation of the U.S. Culture Collection Network—A Framework to Implement a Long-Term Management Plan for a National Plant Microbial Germplasm System
News Calling All Authors! We want to talk to you in Providence, RI, at the annual meeting. If you are an author with a great idea for a book or an online product, please come by the APS PRESS area and tell us about it in person! We will also have a chicken jar (a Rhode Island Red!) out collecting suggestions, and we want yours to be among them. APS PRESS is member driven, and we always appreciate hearing your suggestions. As members, you have the opportunity to shape and create future APS PRESS publications, and we hope that you take full advantage of that. Nothing makes us feel like a successful scientific society press more than publishing a book written or edited by one of our own members. In fact, we rely on book suggestions from members to keep our titles current and relevant to your science. Without your input, how would we know what to print? We rely on you, plant pathologists with specialties from molecular biology to IPM, to tell us what the most cutting-edge, relevant science is, so that we can make sure our new releases will be exciting and relevant for you. n
Rick Bennett, APS PPB Member, rbennett@uark.edu, and Kevin McCluskey, mccluskeyk@umkc.edu A proposal for the formation of a network of ex situ microbial germplasm repositories has been approved for funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Research Coordination Network (RCN). The NSF RCN grant, led by Kevin McCluskey of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), with Co-PIs Seogchan Kang, Penn State University, and Rick Bennett, University of Arkansas, will be used to cultivate a network of scientists working with laboratory-based collections of microbes. This network of collection scientists is an important step in long-term goals of implementing a National Plant Microbial Germplasm System (NPMGS), as envisioned and reported in the March 2010 issue of Phytopathology News, and will meet its goals by hosting independent meetings, sponsoring teaching workshops, organizing symposia at professional meetings, developing a dedicated Internet site with cloud-based laboratory management tools, sponsoring educational exchanges between existing collections, and establishing connections with international groups working toward this shared goal. Formation of the U.S. Culture Collection Network continued on page 111
In this Issue Editor’s Corner ........................................ 110 Meeting ................................................... 112 Public Policy Board ..................................112
Outreach ................................................. 116 APS Foundation ...................................... 117 People ..................................................... 119
Classifieds ................................................ 122 APS Journal Articles ................................ 123 Calendar of Events .................................. 124