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President-Elect Elections To best tackle the variety of exciting challenges in the next few years of ISCB's growth and development, the three of us now jointly chair the Nominations Committee. We are pleased to contribute to ISCB in this important way, and our collective years of ISCB service, coupled with the varied perspectives and experiences we bring to the task, make for a fun and engaging collaborative process toward shaping the way ISCB manages its leadership nominations and elections. The first big change we are orchestrating is holding the Officer elections much earlier this year so that members attending ISMB/ECCB in Vienna can participate in the process by casting their online ballots at the conference. A "voting booth" adjacent to the ISCB booth is planned in the exhibition area, where members can login to the elections site and select their candidate of choice. Of course, members can also login from their own computers anywhere and anytime, but the voting booth concept is intended to make the option to vote as inviting and easy as possible. The online voting site actually opened on July 5th, and closes as ISMB/ECCB 2011 comes to an end on July 19th. The voting site can be accessed here: www.iscb.org/elections.
The successful candidate will begin a one-year President-elect term on January 21, 2012, which automatically transitions to being the next ISCB President for an additional two-year term, and is then followed by one additional year as an ISCB Board Member. All President-elect candidates must pledge to make every reasonable effort to attend the weekly Executive Committee teleconferences, the bi-monthly Board of Directors teleconferences, and the annual in-person Board meeting at ISMB through completion of the combined three year President-elect/President term, plus the additional year on the Board. Such a level of commitment in time, in energy, and in dedication to leading ISCB into the future makes for arguably the most influential yet demanding elected position of the Society. We strongly encourage every ISCB member to participate in the election process, and hope those attending the conference who did not yet vote at home will take full advantage of the opportunity to do so in Vienna, while those not attending the conference make it a point to login and vote before the July 19th deadline. The election results will be ratified by the ISCB Board of Directors, as required by our bylaws. This year we will do this through a special process in early August (the Board does not typically meet in August), with the final outcome announced via the ISCB home page shortly thereafter. Be sure to visit www.iscb.org by mid-August to see if your chosen candidate won the election. We thank you in advance for your participation!  |
