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Minutes of the Annual General Me
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Held on June 21, 2011 at 12pm, Memorial University,
St. John's, NL
PARTICIPANTS
Executive
Ed Topp (ET),
President
Ivan Oresnik (IO),
Vice President
Nancy Martin (NM), 2nd Vice
President
Trevor Charles (TC), Past President
Jonathan Van Hamme (JVH),
Meetings Secretary
Shannon
Brooks (SB), Student Rep
Jessica Boyd (JB), Sec / Treasurer
Wafaa Antonious (WA), Secretariat
Sections
Chris Yost, Applied & Environmental Microbiology
Chair
Peter Dunfield, Applied & Environmental
Microbiology V-Chair
Samantha Gruenheid, Infections & Immunity
V-Chair
Committees
Russell Hynes,
Meetings, Conferences, Workshops
Kari Dunfield & Josh
Neufeld, Education
Positions
Marie
Elliot, 2010 LOC Chair
Andrew Lang, 2011 LOC Chair
Julian Davies, 2012 LOC Chair
Charles Dozois, 2014 LOC Chair
Harry Deneer, CJM Editor
Jim Germida, CJM Editor
General
Members
| Lyle White |
Guylaine
Talbot |
Anthony Clarke |
| Ryan Chanyi |
Mohammad Eram |
John Smit |
| Susan Koval |
Kamine Khosla |
Peter Lowen |
| Alex Hynes |
A.K. Brassinga |
Michael Preston |
| Kersen Ma |
Richard Sparling |
John Gow |
| Roger Lalande |
Yung-Hua Li |
Robert Murray
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| J. Daniel
Dubreuil |
XioLin Tian |
Louise Nelson |
| Alexandre Poulain |
Kapil
Tahlan |
Hani Antoun |
| Brian Driscoll |
Ada Obuekwe |
Steven Hallam |
Regrets
Brian Coombes, II Section Chair
Martin Chenier, MGCM
Section Chair
Deborah Court, MGCM V-Chair
Ashkan
Golshani, 2013 LOC Chair
Mazen Saleh, 2015 LOC Chair
Eric Carstens, IUMS rep Virology
Charles Dozois,
IUMS rep Bacteriology
Awatar Sekhon, IUMS rep Mycology
Julia Foght, BCDC rep
Peter Krell, ASM International
rep
Peter Krell,ICTV rep
- Welcome & Introductions
- Agenda review and approval
Moved accepted: Susan Koval
2nd Louise Nelson
Approved
- Minutes of Past Meeting June 15 2010
Moved accepted: Julian Davies
2nd
Shannon Brooks
Approved
- Election results
Ed Topp
presented the changes in executive:
- Daniel Dubreuil is the new incoming 2nd
Vice President:
- Shannon Brooks is leaving the position
of student representative, she will be
replaced by Josie Libertucci
- Jon Van Hamme is stepping down as
Meetings Secretary, and needs a replacement
- Jess Boyd is stepping down as
Secretary/Treasurer and need a replacement
- Josh Neufeld will be stepping down from
the Education committee, Kari Dunfield will
stay on for one more year.
- Ayush Kumar will join the committee
- We would like to increase membership
in the Education committee by at least 2
to handle the new initiatives
NOTE: during the conference the
following people were recruited to the above
open positions:
Secretary/Treasurer: Guy
Lemay
Meetings Secretary: Russ Hynes
Education Committee: Raphael Garduño & Karen
Brassinga
- Secretary/ Treasure’s Report
JB led us through the written
reports (see council package for full
information)
- Budget
Summary: We
are planning for an estimated net loss of
$14,000 this year. This is a conservative
estimate based on current projections for
the conference. We will probably actually
break even.
- Audited Financial Statements of
2010 (prepared by our new auditor
Andrea Poole)
Summary: our current
assets are $192,147
- Membership Report
Summary: We have 412 total members for 2011,
we expect another 50 or so to renew their
membership for 2011.
- Website Activities
Summary: Our new website has collected over
1,000,000 hits in the first 6 months of 2011
- Bylaws Vote & registering
amended bylaws with Corporation Canada
Our revisions to the by-laws have been voted
on and approved by the membership. The next
task is to submit the revised document to
Industry Department. This will be done by JB
and WA
- Transfer of signing authority
Motion: Transfer signing
authority from outgoing president Ed Topp to
new incoming president Ivan Oresnik
moved accepted: Louise Nelson
2nd:
Lyle White
Approved
- President's Report
Presented by Ed Topp
- The society is on very strong financial
footing with close to $200,000 in the bank.
- Accordingly, the executive is developing
new initiatives to direct some of this money
to its membership. We have decided to fund a
number of new awards for Students and Post
Docs which could total up to $6,000 per
year. The details of the awards and
selection criteria will be worked out by a
committee chaired by Josh Neufeld, with
support from Ed Topp, Chris Yost,
Samantha Gruenheid and Josie Libertucci. We
hope to have these new awards in place early
in 2012.
- Asked for feedback and buy in from
membership regarding the new website
initiatives especially the "Meet the
Microbiologist" vignettes
- As always we
need more involvement in the society
especially from newer members
- Also see
written report
- Meeting Secretary’s report
Jonathan Van Hamme summarized his written
report:
(see council package for full
information)
- Meetings Conferences and Workshops
Report on 2010 conference.
See written report:
- Report on 2011 conference: Andrew Lang
reviewed written report:
Summary: 200
paid attendees and 40 volunteer non-paid
- Summary: Net income of $36,000. $9,092
goes back to Hamilton LOC
- Report on 2012 conference at UBC: not
available, Julian Davies will make a
presentation at the session later today
- Report on 2013 conference at U Ottawa:
not available
- Report on 2014 conference: presented by
Charles Dozois
Summary: (see also
written report)
- The conference will be held in
collaboration with the IUMS annual
conference. This will be a very large
meeting and will likely net the CSM a
large profit.
- It will be held at the Palais de
Congrés in Montreal Mark Wainberg will
be the fundraiser
- The National Organizing committee
(NOC) is waiting for the new IUMS
executive to be in place before deciding
on speakers and session topics.
- The NOC will integrate the CSM
award lectures into the IUMS structure
- Report on 2015 conference at
Laurentian: not available
- Future meetings: Russell Hynes is
negotiating with Queen’s University for 2016
- Student Rep’s Report
Shannon reviewed her written report
(see council package for full information)
- Reports from the Sections
- Applied & Environmental Microbiology:
Chris Yost summarized written report
- Applied & Environmental Microbiology:
Chris Yost summarized written report
- Molecular Genetics & Cellular
Microbiology:
See written report
- Reports from Committees
- Education and Careers Committee
Kari Dunfield summarized written report.
- Awards Report
Ed
Topp summarized written report:
- We have renamed our highest award,
the CSM award, the "CSM Murray Award for
Career Achievement" in honour of the
first CSM President, Professor R.G.E
Murray, and his father E.G.D Murray,
also a key player in microbiology in
Canada.
- This year the award is sponsored by
The Canadian Journal of Microbiologists
and CSP.
- The first winner of the CSM Murray
Award for Career Achievement is Dr.
George Chaconas from the University of
Calgary.
- Fisher Scientific Award this year
goes to Dr. Mariela Segura of the
University of Montreal.
- The CanGene gold Award this year
goes to Karlene Lynch of the University
of Alberta
- Reports from Representatives
- Canadian Journal of Microbiology Jim Germida delivered oral report
- There were big changes last year, CJM is no longer part of the Canadian Government NRC press (the name remains, but the connection does not). The new entity, Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) now has more flexibility with regards to editorial decisions.
- This year the Journal published the same number of pages as last year. There has been a large increase in the number of submissions. The Journal has a 70% rejection limit, due to the high number of poor quality submissions
- IUMS: Eric Carstens
See written report
- ICTV: Peter Krell
See written report
- BCDRCC: Julia Foght
See written report
- ASM International Membership Committee: Peter Krell
See written report
- ASM Ambassador to Canada: Peter Krell
See written report
- Other Activities
- Electronic balloting.
We have passed the revisions to the By-Laws which now allows us to use electronic balloting for all Society ballot questions. These include, but are not limited to, potential other By-Law updates as well as committee positions.
- Other Business
Next
meeting: UBC in 2012
- Adjourn
1pm
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