Each year, the three-year terms of two of the six Executive Board members expire, and two new members are elected by ABRF Member Laboratories. On October 11, Karen De Jongh and R. Reid Townsend were elected to the Executive Board with terms beginning January 1, 1997; they will replace Greg Grant and Sheenah Mische. A total of 118 ballots were returned before the election deadline.
Karen De Jongh is a Senior Scientist in the Protein Technology Department of ZymoGenetics, Inc. Within the ABRF, she has served as a member of the Protein Sequence Research Committee and is currently a member of the ABRF News Editorial Board and the Task Force on Improving the Status of Core Laboratories. At the 1995 ABRF Meeting in Boston, MA she chaired the workshop "Two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis", and at the ABRF '96 Meeting she led the roundtable discussion "Improving the Status of Core Laboratories and Personnel".
Reid Townsend is an Associate Professor at the University of California at San Francisco. He is currently the Chair of the Carbohydrate Analysis Research Committee. He co-chaired the workshop on carbohydrate analysis at ABRF '96, organized the ABRF Symposium at the 1996 ASBMB Meeting, and co-organized the past three International Glycobiology Symposia on Current Analytical Methods. He is co-Editor of the first volume of Techniques in Glycobiology.
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