Past reports of Virus Division Business Meetings
In this section an overview is presented of the meetings held since 2004.
Report of the Virus Division Business Meeting
August 17, 2009, Park City, Utah, USA
The Virus Division Business Meeting was attended by 35 members. The meeting was chaired by the Chair Bryony Bonning, and the Secretary/Treasurer Kelli Hoover recorded the meeting minutes.
Summary of Virus Division activities at the Park City meeting 2009:
The Virus Division sponsored three symposia at the Utah meeting
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Insect RNA Viruses: Advances and Applications
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Invertebrate Anti-Virus Response
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The viral face of PDVs: Origin and structure of the chromosomally integrated PDV genomes
In addition, the division sponsored one cross-divisional symposium and a workshop
There were 30 contributed oral presentations 10 of which were student presentations. There were 32 poster presentations, of which 4 were student presentations.
Hands-On Cell Culture Workshop
The division also organized a pre-meeting cell culture workshop “Methods for Developing Insect Cell Lines: A Laboratory Workshop” for hands on training provided by Dr. Dwight Lynn. The workshop was held at a Utah Valley University Wasatch Campus facility, close to the SIP meeting site. This workshop has been received with enthusiasm with 19 participants enrolled. Proceeds from this workshop were used to pay for Dr. Lynn’s attendance of the SIP meeting, workshop supplies, and facility rental with the remainder going toward the Virus Division fund.
Membership:
In 2009 there were 96 regular members and 10 student members.
Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2008
The financial information was reported by Kelli Hoover. The treasurer’s report was given indicating that as of April 30, 2009, the balance in our account is $4,396. Details follow:
FUND BALANCE April 30, 2008: $ 3,684
Income
$ 750 for student awards
$ 595 from President’s discretionary fund
$1,000 from General Fund
$ 954 membership dues May 1, 2008 to April 1, 2009 (93 regular, $930: 12 student members, $24)
$ 400 from industry sponsorship
Total Income $3,699
Expenses for 2008 SIP meeting
$1,392.00 for Student Travel Awards 2008
$1,595.00 for Speaker Travel funding 2008
Total Expenses $2,987
Net Income: $712
Fund Balance as of April 30, 2009: $ 4,396
Membership fees
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A motion was made to raise student membership fee to $5 for the Virus Division and it was seconded. After discussion the motion failed.
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A second motion was made to raise the regular virus division membership to $15 and make student membership free. After a second to the motion and discussion, the motion failed.
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A third motion was made to raise the regular virus division membership fee to $15 and keep the student membership fee at $2. After a second, a vote was taken and the motion passed by the majority.
Student Report:
Ikbal Agah Ince provided this report:
The students came up with some suggestions that require further discussion or implementation, as follows:
1. Prepare invitation letters for SIP meetings to students that clarifies the advantages of holding student membership in SIP. This letter could be posted on the website or a hardcopy invitation letter sent to possible candidates.
2. Organization of student activities that are attractive to students should be required at SIP Meetings, e.g organizing short-term courses with no fee for student members
3. Provide a membership certificate for students who ask for it.
4. We also discussed with student council members the idea of holding a special session where specific people (probably 3) are invited from outside or within the SIP Society to have a 30 or 45 min coffee with students to talk about their life/career experience. The students can be divided into three groups and allowed to choose the speaker they would like to have coffee with.
5. Create a mail group for facilitating information flow (Job offers, courses, etc.)
Student travel awards
Ten applications were submitted for student travel awards to the Virus Division. The Virus division awarded two travel awards at $650 each to Jianli Xue and Agah Ince. The Virus Division’s top travel award winner, Karolin Eberle, was nominated for and received the Martignoni award.
Discussion followed on whether preference for student travel awards should go to students whom have not yet received the award. The consensus was that this should be at the discretion of the division chair, but that we should still rank the students so that a student who had previously received a travel award from our division is still eligible to be nominated for the Martignoni award.
Election of Officers
The Virus Division Executive Committee
Chair: Bryony Bonning (2008-2010)
Chair Elect: Monique van Oers (2008-2010)
Secretary/Treasurer: Kelli Hoover (2008-2010)
Member-at-Large: Kayrn Johnson (2009-2011)
Nor Chejanovsky (2008-2010)
Symposia 2010
A call for symposium proposals for the 2010 SIP meeting in Turkey was sent to Virus Division members in May by the chair of the division, and resulted in several suggestions and one full proposal. Discussion about the symposia followed and a vote was taken on proposed symposia. Each member could vote twice. The outcome was:
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The application of insect viruses in medicine (organized by Monique van Oers and Linda King) received 22 votes
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Arthropod transmitted viral diseases (organized by Rose Hu) received 18 votes.
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Pathology of insect-virus interactions received 16 votes (and will be resurrected for discussion next year): possible organizer Eric Haas-Stapleton of Cal State Long Beach
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Viruses of pollinators was proposed as a cross-divisional symposium with the new division of Diseases of Beneficial Invertebrates. Nancy Ostiguy of Penn State offered to organize this.
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Forest Insect Viral Diseases was proposed as a symposium by Peter Krell for the 2011 meeting in Nova Scotia.
Workshop for the 2010 Meeting
A Bioinformatics Workshop, full day, hands on was proposed and approved by the members. Eric Haas-Stapleton will contact Dr. Eric Lyons of UC Berkeley to see if he is willing to teach the workshop using his new software program CoGe. Dr. Lyons will also be asked to give a workshop presentation on bioinformatics during the conference after the Virus Division business meeting.
Respectfully submitted by Kelli Hoover, Virus Division Secretary/Treasurer and Bryony Bonning, Virus Division Chair (August 19, 2009)
Report of the Virus Division Business Meeting
August 4, 2008, Warwick, UK
The Virus Division Business Meeting was attended by 70 members. The meeting was chaired by the Chair Johannes Jehle, and the Secretary/Treasurer Zhihong (Rose) Hu recorded the meeting minutes.
Summary of Virus Division activity at the Warwick meeting 2008:
This year the Virus Division organized and sponsored two symposia, one cross-division symposium and one workshop. There were 48 contributed oral presentations 18 of which were student presentations. There were 36 poster presentations, 12 thereof were student presentations.
Membership:
In 2008 there were 111 regular members and 27 student members.
Student Travel Award of the Virus Division
This year 10 applications were submitted for student travel awards to the Virus Division, and were judged by the VD officers. Three awards of $650 each will be given at the Warwick SIP meeting. The winners are Victoria Au (Canada), Meijin Yuan (China), and Manli Wang (China).
2008 Symposia and Workshop
As in the past, symposia and workshop for the meeting of this year were selected by discussion and voted at the 2007 Business Meeting. The Division continues to maintain an updated list of topics, from which Symposia titles are selected each year. In 2008 the Virus Division organized two symposia: “Bee Viruses of Bees” and “Comparative Genomics of DNA Viruses”. One cross divisional symposium “Role of Disease in Regulation of Non-Pest Populations“, and a workshop “Invertebrate Virus Discovery” were also organized.
Possible Symposia Topics for 2009
A considerable amount of time was spent discussing possible topics for next year’s symposium. The members of the Virus Division decided to organize two symposia. The topics chosen were “Insect RNA Viruses: Advances and Applications” and “Invertebrate Anti-Virus Response”. A workshop on “Advances in Invertebrate Cell Culture” may be held during the business meeting 2009. “Multitrophic interactions” was suggested for 2009 cross divisional symposium.
Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2007 The financial information was reported by Rose Hu.
FUND BALANCE April 30, 2007: $ 3,603.00
Income May 2007-April 2008
$ 1,500 for speakers
$ 750 for student awards
$ 600 from President’s discretionary fund
$ 1,221 membership dues 2007/2008 (student $44+ division $986+division others $191)
Total Income $ 4,071
Expenses May 2007-April 2008
$1,890 for Student Travel Awards 2007
$ 1,520 for Speaker Travel funding 2007
$ 580 return to General Fund
Total Expenses $ 3,990
NET INCOME May 2007-April 2008: 81.00
FUND BALANCE APRIL 30, 2008 : $ 3,684
Election of Officers
One nomination each for the Chair Elect (Monique van Oers, the Netherlands), Secretary/Treasurer (Kelli Hoover, USA) and the member-at-large (Nor Chejanovsky, Israel) were made to the Virus Division Chair prior to the election at the meeting in Warwick. Nominations were posted 24 hours before election. All nominees were unanimously elected.
The Virus Division Executive Committee
Chair: Bryony Bonning (2008-2010)
Chair Elect: Monique van Oers (2008-2010)
Secretary/Treasurer: Kelli Hoover (2008-2010)
Member-at-Large: Victor Romanowsk (2007-2009)
Nor Chejanovsky (2008-2010)
Reported by Zhihong (Rose) Hu/Johannes Jehle (August 26, 2008)
Report
of the Virus Division Business Meeting
August 13, 2007, Quebec City, Canada
The Virus Division Business Meeting
was attended by 39 members. The meeting was chaired by the Chair Johannes
Jehle, and the Secretary/Treasurer Zhihong
(Rose) Hu recorded the meeting minutes.
Summary
of Virus Division activity at the Quebec meeting 2007:
This year the Virus Division organized
and sponsored 2 symposia and one workshop. There were 40 contributed oral presentations 11 of which were student presentations.
There were 50 poster presentations, 6 thereof were student presentations.
Membership:
In 2007 there were 103 regular members and 25 student members. James Maruniak, Basil Arif and Just Vlak, who sponsored Chinese and Turkish students for SIP/Virus Division student memberships, were acknowledged.
Student
Travel Award of the virus Division
This year five applications were
judged by the Division's Executive Committee. Because of the quality of the
applications and with the funds provided by the council three Virus Division
Student Travel Awards were presented. This year’s winners were: Mark Zwart from
Wageningen University (The Netherlands), Ikbal
Agah Ince from
Karadeniz Technical University (Turkey), and Jianli Xue from Miami University
(USA). Each student received $600
award.
2007 Symposia and Workshop
As in the past, Symposia and workshop for the meeting of this year were selected by discussion and voted
at the 2006 Business Meeting. The
Division continues to maintain an updated list of topics, from which Symposia
titles are selected each year. This year the Virus Division organized a
symposium “Insect cells and
baculoviruses: ’Pas de Deux’” (in honour of
Bob Granados) and a symposium “Baculovirus Bounty” (in honour of Loy Volkman). One workshop“Polydnavirus
Phylogeny and Taxonomy” was also organized.
Possible
Symposia Topics for 2008
A considerable amount of time was
spent discussing possible topics for next year’s symposium. The members of the
Virus Division decided to organize two symposia. The topics chosen were “Comparative Genomics of DNA Viruses” and “Bee Viruses”. A workshop on “Invertebrate Virus Discovery” may
be held during the business meeting 2008. Several topics were suggested for 2008 cross divisional symposium, including “Molecular
Pathogen Host Interaction” and “Evolutionary
and Population Ecology”.
Financial
Report for Fiscal Year 2006 The
financial information was reported by Rose Hu.
REVENUE
Membership
Dues $1,028.00
SIP Fund
Transfer for Speaker Awards $1,500.00
SIP Fund
Transfer for Student Awards $ 750.00
Total Revenue $3,278.00
EXPENSE
Speaker and
Student Travel Awards $2,600.00
Refunding of
unused awards 2006 $350.00
Total
Expenses $2,950.00
Net Revenue $ 328.00
FUND BALANCE
(4/30/2006) $3,275.00
FUND
BALANCE (4/30/2007) $3,603.00
A motion was
carried that the Virus Division will buy a CD of $2,000 of one year for supporting
student awards.
Student
representative Report
The
VD student representative Jondavid de Jong gave an overview on the SIP
activities for students and encouraged students to take part in these
activities. Problem of continuity in student representation was raised, since
many students leave the fields after graduation. Ikbal Agah Ince (Turkey) was nominated as second student representative of the VD.
Election
of Officers
One nomination (Victor Romanowski, Argentina) was received by the Chair for the
position of Member-at-large. Nomination was posted 24 hours before
election.Victor
was unanimously elected. Victor
will serve as Member-at-large of Virus Division 2007-2009.
The Virus Division Executive Committee
Chair: Johannes Jehle (Germany) (2006-2008),
Chair Elect: Bryony Bonning (USA) (2006-2008)
Secretary/Treasurer: Zhihong (Rose) Hu (China) (2006-2008)
Member-at-Large: Rollie Clem (USA) (2006-2008)
Victor Romanowski (Argentina) (2007-2009).
Reported
by Rose Hu/Johannes Jehle (September 1, 2007)
2006 (August 28, Wuhan, China)
The
Virus Division Business Meeting was attended by 30 members. The meeting was
chaired by the Chair James Maruniak, and the Chair Elect Johannes Jehle recorded
the meeting minutes.
Summary
of Virus Division activity at the Wuhan meeting 2006:
This
year the Virus Division organized and sponsored 2 symposia. There were 48 contributed oral
presentations 18 of which were student presentations. There were 19 poster
presentations.
Membership:
In
2006 there were 101 regular members and 10 student members. During the meeting
in Wuhan, James Maruniak and Basil Arif started an initiative to sponsor
SIP/Virus Division student memberships for Chinese students attending the
meeting.
Student
Travel Award of the virus Division
This
year five applications were judged by the Division's Executive Committee.
Because of the quality of the applications and with the funds provided by the
council three Virus Division Student Travel Awards were presented. This year’s
winners were: Clare Allen from Oxford Brookes University, Fang Xu from Wageningen University and David Carpentier from Oxford Brookes University.
2006
Symposia
As
in the past, Symposia for this year's meeting were selected by discussion and
voted at the 2005 Business Meeting. The Division continues to maintain an
updated list of topics, from which Symposia titles are selected each year. This
year the Virus Division organized a symposium on diseases of aquatic invertebrates
and a symposium on field performance of insect viruses.
Possible
Symposia Topics for 2007
A
considerable amount of time was spent discussing possible topics for next
year’s symposium. The members of the Virus Division decided to organize two symposia.
The topics chosen were Cell Culture: Serial Passage
Effects and Virus Production and Virus/Host interaction. A workshop on Polydnavirus genomics and taxonomy may
be held during the business meeting 2007.
Financial
Report for Fiscal Year 2005 The financial information was provided by the SIP
Treasurer Suzanne Thiem and reported by James Maruniak.
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REVENUE
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Membership
Dues
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$1,132.00
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SIP
Fund Transfer for Speaker Awards
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$1,000.00
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SIP
Fund Transfer for Student Awards
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$ 500.00
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Total
Revenue
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$2,632.00
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EXPENSE
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Speaker
Awards
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$1,500.00
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Student
Travel Awards
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$1,000.00
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Total
Expenses
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$2,500.00
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Net Revenue
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$ 132.00
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FUND
BALANCE (4/30/2005)
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$3,143.00
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FUND
BALANCE (4/30/2006)
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$3,275.00
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Election
of Officers
One
nomination (Bryony Bonning, USA) was received by the Chair for the position of
Chair-Elect. Bryony was unanimously elected. One nomination (Zhihong (Rose) Hu, China), was received by the Chair for the position of Secretary/Treasurer. Rose was
unanimously elected. One nomination (Rollie Clem) was received by the Chair for
the position of Member-at-Large. Rollie Clem was unanimously elected.
The New Virus Division Executive
Committee
Following officers serve presently for
the Virus Division: Chair: Johannes Jehle (Germany), Chair Elect: Bryony
Bonning (USA), Secretary/Treasurer: Zhihong (Rose) Hu (China), Member-at-Large: Madoka Nakai (Japan) and Rollie Clem (USA).
Student representative: Jondavid de Jong (Canada) will remain the student representative of the Virus Division.
Reported
by Johannes Jehle (September 12, 2006)
2005 (August 7, Anchorage Alaska)
Thanks
to the Society’s Speaker Fund and Division dues, the Virus Division organized
and sponsored one cross-division symposium “Invertebrate Responses to
Pathogens” co-chaired by Jim Maruniak (virus) and Christina Nielsen-LeRoux
(bacteria); two division symposia: 1) “Polydnaviruses and Ascoviruses” (4
speakers) and 2) “Insect Expression Systems, Gene Therapy and Vaccine
Development” (4 speakers); five contributed paper sessions (40 presentations);
one workshop on “Microarray Technology, Genomics and Proteomics in
Entomopathogen Research”; 35 virus posters and contributions to the Immunity
session and Microbial Control session.
Membership
There
are 120 dues paying members in 2005, an increase of 24 over 2004. There are
108 regular members (17 more) paying $10 and 12 students (7 more than 2004)
paying $2.
Student
Travel Grants
There
were 10 applicants for the Virus Division student travel grants judged by three
members of the Division including executive committee members. The Virus
Division awarded two travel grants of $500 each to Jondavid de Jong from
University of Guelph, Ontario and to Elizabeth Kemp from University of Reading, Warwick. The Virus Division reviewed and voted for the student travel applications
for the Martignoni Award (Stephen Wraight, chair) and the Microbial Control
(Jeff Lord, chair) travel award.
2006
and Future Symposia
A
cross-divisional symposium on “Host/Pathogen Population Dynamics” is planned
for the 2006 annual meeting in China. Two symposia approved by the Virus
Division are “Diseases of Aquatic Invertebrates” organized by Just Vlak and
“Field Performance of Insect Viruses” organized by Rose Hu.
Additional
future titles on our “master list” of symposia topics include Virus/Host
Interactions, Entomopoxviruses versus Vertebrate Poxviruses: comparative
pathology and genomics, Cell Culture: Serial Passage Effects and Virus
Production, Emerging Diseases of Invertebrates, and Insect Genomics (Cross
Division Symposium). Contact Jim Maruniak if you would like to participate in
organizing a Virus Division Symposium.
It
was decided that there would not be a Virus Division workshop at the 2006 SIP
meeting.
Basil
Arif suggested a visit of the Virology Institute in Wuhan for members of the
Virus Division. More information will be sent at a later time about the
details of the tour.
Web
Page
The
Virus Division web page was updated by Johannes Jehle, Monique Van Oers and Peg
Rotstein.
Financial
Revenue
Membership
dues 2004 $190
(120=12*2, 108*$10) 2005 $924
SIP
contributed Speaker Funds $1000
SIP
contributed Student Travel $1000
Total
Revenue $3114
Expenses
Meeting
Speakers $1500
Student
Travel Award $1500
Total
Expenses $3000
Virus
Division Officers and terms
Chair James
Maruniak (2004-2006)
Vice-Chair/Chair-elect Johannes
Jehle (2004-2006)
Secretary/Treasurer Marlinda
Lobo Sosa (2004-2006)
Member-at-large Robert
Possee (2003-2005)
Member-at-large Linda
King (2004-2006)
Member-at-large Madoka
Nakai (2005-2007)
Bergmann
Ribeiro Morais from the University of Brasília has agreed to be on the Lomer
Committee.
The
Virus Division has nominated Jenny Cory and Doreen Winstanley to be on the SIP
Glossary committee.
Jondavid
de Jong has agreed to be the student representative for the Student Affairs
Committee.
During the SIP meeting in China next year, we will have elections
for Vice Chair/Chair-elect, Secretary/Treasurer and one Member-at-Large.
Nominations should be sent to Jim Maruniak (jem@ifas.ufl.edu) prior to the SIP
meeting. At
least 3 different members of the virology division must nominate candidates
before they are considered for election. Johannes Jehle will assume the Chair
at the end of the Virus Division business meeting in China.
2004 (August 2, Helsinki, Finland)
The Virus Division Business Meeting was attended by 34 people. The
meeting was chaired by the Virus Division Chair John Burand, and the
Secretary/Treasurer Jim Slavicek recorded the meeting minutes.
Summary of Virus Division activity at the Helsinki meetings
This year the Society organized a symposium on the history of SIP and
Basil Arif was kind enough to agree to speak on the history of Virus Division
in this symposium. In addition, the Virus Division organized and sponsored: 2
division symposia, 1 cross-division symposia, 1 workshop. 25 contributed papers
2 of which are student papers 28 posters at least 3 of which are student
posters.
Membership
The increase in dues went into full effect this year We have 96 dues
paying members. This includes 91 regular members paying $10 (The same as last
year) and 5 students paying $2.
Student Travel Grant
This will be the fourth year the Division has presented the annual
student award, with entries judged by the Division's Executive Committee. This
year because of the quality of the applications and with the funds provided by
the council three Virus Division Student Travel Awards of $500 each will be
presented. This year’s winners are: Hirokazu Shikata, Ayako Hirao and Aki
Fujimoto all three from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
2004 Symposia
As in the past, Symposia for this year's meeting were selected by
discussion and vote at the 2003 Business Meeting. The Division continues to maintain
an updated list of topics, from which Symposia titles are selected each year.
This year the Virus Division combined with the Microbial Control Division to
organize a symposium entitled: Oryctes virus - from discovery to classical
microbial control agent. The Division also organized a symposium on virus
ecology and on the role of native immune systems and molecular host response.
Thanks to the Society's Speaker Fund, we were able to support several of the
speakers in these sessions.
Possible Symposia Topics for 2005
A considerable amount of time was spent discussing possible topics for
next year’s symposium. The members of the Virus Division decided to organize a
cross-divisional symposium on Host/Pathogen Population Dynamics and three
divisional symposia. The topics chosen were Insect Expression Systems, gene
therapy and vaccine development, PolyDNA Viruses/Ascoviruses and Field
Performance of Insect Viruses. However, a symposium on Virus/Host Interactions
may be organized 2005 or possibly 2005. Jim Maruniak will work to clarify this
issue. Virus Division members were encouraged to contact Jim Maruniak if they
would like to participate in organizing a Virus Division Symposium. Peter Krell
volunteered to organize the PolyDNAViruses/Ascoviruses Symposium.
Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2003
The financial information was provided by the SIP Treasurer Suzanne Thiem
and the Executive Secretary, Peg Rotstein.
Revenue
Membership Dues $920.00
SIP Speaker Funds $1,000.00
Total Revenue $1,920.00
Expenses
Meeting Speakers $500.00
Student Travel Award $400.00
Total Expenses $900.00
Net Income $1,020.00
Fund Balance (4-30-2002) $2,109.00
Fund Balance (4-30-2003) $3,129.00
Election of Officers
One nomination (Johannes A. Jehle, Germany) was received by the Chair for
the position of Chair-Elect. Johannes was unanimously elected. One nomination
(Marlinda Lobo de Souza, Brazil) was received by the Chair for the position of
Secretary/Treasurer. Marlinda was unanimously elected. One nomination (Linda King, UK) was received by the Chair for the position of Member-at-Large. Linda was
unanimously elected.
