iopb newsletter no - International Organization of Plant Biosystematists

Kawano, Elsbieta Kuta, John Murray, Hans
den Nijs and Suzanne Warwick.
Hans den Nijs has agreed to act as IOPB
webmaster, a new function. The web site at
the time of this writing can be reached
under
www.bio.uva.nl/conferences/iopb9
8.htm
and is going to be transferred to
www.bio.uva.nl/iopb
Tim Lowry, our new president-elect, is
preparing the next triennial IOPB
symposium. This will be held in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, from 12
to 16 August 2001. The symposium is
planned to coincide with the annual
meeting of the Botanical Society of
America. There will be easy access for
participants from IOPB to BSA symposia
and we hope BSA members will be
interested in the IOPB symposium.
Altogether, we expect that this
combination will be a great boost to IOPB.
We should all reserve the date in our
calendars. Details of program and
registration will be announced in the
coming newsletters and on our website
when they become available. The first
circular should be mailed to all of you
about this time next year.
Being an international organization with
executive and council from all over the
world can create problems with
communication. Computers, when they
work, can be a great help. Let me therefore
close this letter with my e-mail address and
invite you to make use of this. Executive
and council are very much interested to
make sure that biosystematists all over the
world benefit from IOPB membership. I
shall do my best to deal with questions and
suggestions sent to me or to relay them to
the proper address.
Konrad Bachmann
Bachmann@ipk-gatersleben.de
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