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Keegstra Elected to Lead Aspp in 1997-1998 Vol. 23, No.4 July/ August 1996 ASPPNEWS The Newsletter of the American Society of Plant Physiologists Inside This Issue. KEEGSTRA ELECTED TO LEAD ASPP IN 1997-1998 Natasha Raikhel Will Take Seat on Executive Committee 3 Annual Meeting Results of the 1996 ASPP election of officers were announced in early July. 4 Dr. Kenneth Keegstra, director of the President's Letter Michigan State University-Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory and a 5 professor in the Departments of Biochem­ Letter from Mexican Society istry and Botany & Plant Pathology at President Michigan State, will assume the office of president-elect of ASPP on October 1, 7-10 1996. Keegstra will lead the Society as Public Affairs its president in 1997-1998 and will con­ • Agriculture Budget tinue on as immediate past president in 1998-1999. • OSTP Retreat Keegstra is now completing a three­ • NSF Funds year term as elected member of the ASPP • Cotton Council executive committee. Replacing him as • Ad Supports NRICGP, ARS elected member will be his colleague at • Ad Sponsored py CoFARM the Plant Research Laboratory, Natasha Raikhel. Raikhel will serve a three-year 10 term, 1996-1999. Obituaries/Electronic Bibliog­ Ken Keegstra, a native of Michigan, raphy attended Hope College in Holland, Ken Keegstra will lead ASPP in 1997-1998. Michigan, where he received a B.A. in 11 chemistry in 1967. In graduate school at then served on the faculty of the Micro­ Education Forum the University of Colorado, from which biology Department at the State Univer­ he earned his doctorate in 1971, he sity of New York at Stony Brook. 12 worked with Peter Albersheim on the In 1977, following six years out of Tuskegee Workshop structure of plant cell walls. Keegstra plant biology, Keegstra accepted a fac- conducted postdoctoral research for two 13 years with Phillips Robbins at MIT and continued on page 3 Turning Point 15 THE PLANT CELL Special Issue 17 Gatherings 21 Jobs Deadline for the September/October 1996 issue of ASPPNEWS is August 21, 1996; 2 ASPPNEWS ASPP Officers and Staff President Bob B. Buchanan (510-642-3590) ASPP Headquarters Telephone Extension and President-Elect E-Mail Directory Donald Ort (217-333-2093) Immediate Past President James N. Siedow (919-684-6573) Secretary For your convenience, keep this listing of extension numbers and e-mail ad- Mary Jo Vesper (513-229-2502) dresses handy when you contact ASPP headquarters so that you can reach the Treasurer Mark Jacobs (215-328-8039) person best able to assist you. Our office telephone number is 301-251-0560. Chair, Board ofTnIStees Larry N. Vanderhoef (916-752-2067) Chair, Publications Committee If your subject is, contact ext. # e-mail address Stanley Roux (512-471-4238) Chair, Committee on ti,e Status ofWomen in Plant PhysiologlJ Elizabeth A. Bray (909-787-4548) Missing journal issues, books Sharon Kelly 29 [email protected] Elected Members Kenneth Keegstra (517-353-2270) Subscriptions, individual' Sharon Kelly 29 [email protected] Elizabeth Vierling (602-621-1601) Wendy F. Boss (919-515-3496) Plant Physiologl} Sectional Representatives Midwestern (except missing issues) Deborah Weiner 18 [email protected] Daniel R. Bush (217-333-6109) Northeastern THE PLANT CELL Subhash Minocha (603-862-3840) Southern Disposition of a manuscript Annette Kessler 20 [email protected] William H. Outlaw Jr. (904-644-4020) Washington, DC All other questions Jerry D. Cohen (301-504-5632) Western (except missing issues) Judith Grollman 19 [email protected] Sharman O'Neill (916-752-2435) Newsletter Jody Carlson 17 [email protected] Headquarters Office 15501 Monona Drive Advertising Rockville, MD 20855-2768 USA Phone: 301-251-0560 • Fax: 301-279-2996 Plant Physiology Deborah Weiner 18 [email protected] Executive director, Kenneth M. Beam, ext. 15 ([email protected]) THE PLANT CELL Judith Grollman 19 [email protected] Director offinance and administration, Susan K. Chambers, ext. 11 Newsletter Jody Carlson 17 [email protected] ([email protected]) Accountant, Thomas M. 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It is edited and ([email protected]) prepared by ASPP staff from material provided by ASPP members and other interested parties. Copy deadline is about the Manuscript assistant, Kimberly A. Davis, ext. 24 fifteenth day of the preceding even-numbered month (e,g., December 15 for January(February publication). Submit copy by e­ ([email protected]) mail whenever possible; submit all other copy by mail, flot by fax. Contact: Jody Carlson, Editor, ASPP NEWS, 15501 Monona Manuscript assistant, Aphrodite Knoop, ext. 25 Drive, Rockville, MD 20855-2768 USA; e-mail [email protected]; telephone 301-25HJ560, ext. 17. ([email protected]) July/August 1996, Vol. 23, No.4 3 continued from page 1 PLANT BIOLOGY '96 IS SET AND READY TO GO 1200 Expected to Share Their Scientific Insights ulty position in the Botany Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madi­ Menus have been selected, signs are Sunday through Wednesday son. His research interests remained fo­ on order, the program is at the • Two 2-day groups of posters cused on protein trafficking, investigat­ printer-and by the time members are • Five workshops ing the targeting of cytoplasmically syn­ reading this issue of ASPP News, Plant • The largest-ever array of exhibits thesized proteins into chloroplasts. In Biology '96 in San Antonio, Texas, will Among special events planned for addition, he developed interests in many be well underway. At 2:00 PM Saturday, the meeting are all those that have other aspects of chloroplast structure, July 27, ASPP President Bob B. come to be expected: the opening night function, and biogenesis, especially those Buchanan will call to order the 1996 mixer on Saturday night, luncheons events that occur at the envelope mem­ annual meeting of the American Society planned by the minority affairs com­ branes. of Plant Physiologists. The meeting, mittee (Sunday) and the committee on Keegstra became the director of the scheduled for July 27-July 31, is ex­ the status of women in plant physiol­ MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory in pected to attract about 1200 plant ogy (Monday), the annual awards 1993. At PRL, he has continued his re­ scientists from around the world to ceremony (Sunday), the Plant Runners' search on chloroplast biogenesis, but has participate in five days of oral presenta­ Stampede (Tuesday), and the yearly also begun a new research project on an tions, posters, workshops, eXhibits, and dinner/ dance (Tuesday). old interest: biosynthesis of plant cell wall special events. Also available to this year's attendees polysaccharides. Plant Biology '96 will feature the will be the many attractions of San His election as president-elect caps Ken invited participation of members of the Antonio beginning with the nearby Keegstra's many years of service to ASPP. Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Alamo and the Riverwalk, with its He served on the editorial board of Plant Biology section of the Mexican Bio­ array of shops and restaurants. Physiology from 1981 to 1992, as a coedi­ chemical Society (see related story on Even as the events of this year's tor of THE PLANT CELL from 1990 to page 5). Mexican colleagues have meeting unfold, plans are well under­ 1995, as a member of the program com­ cooperated with ASPP's program way for Plant Biology '97: A View from mittee from 1989 to 1991, and as elected committee to assure involvement by the Pacific Rim, the 1997 annual member of the executive committee from their members in all aspects of the meeting in Vancouver, British Colum­ 1993 to 1996. meeting. bia, Canada, August 2-6. The meeting Dr. Natasha Raikhel, who will begin FollOWing are the highlights of the will be held jointly with the Canadian her term as elected member of the execu­ meeting: Society of Plant PhYSiologists, and will tive committee on October 1, is a profes­ • Five major symposia, one each day feature participation by the Australian sor at the MSU-DOE Plant Research • Eight minisymposia, two per day, and Japanese societies. Laboratory, which she joined as an as­ sistant professor in 1986.
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