Annual General Meeting
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Friday April 23rd 2010, The Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute, Hinxton
The Society’s 2010 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on Friday, 23rd April at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre at the Genome Campus at Hinxton, Cambridge as part of the Genetics Society Spring Meeting “"Mouse Genetics: Think Globally, Act Locally". Society members unable to attend the 2010 AGM in person will have the opportunity to vote in advance online.
An email will be posted to members informing them when online voting for the 2010 AGM has opened; this email will also include online voting information and instructions, including the ballot of new Committee and Executive sub-Committee members being put forth by the Committee to fill upcoming vacancies. Online voting will close on Friday 9th April, 2010.
2010 AGM Agenda
1. Minutes of previous General Meeting (Friday May 8th 2009); matters arising
2. President’s Report
3. Honorary Treasurer’s Report
4. Honorary Secretary’s Report and Business for Transaction:
a. Revision to the Bylaws of the Genetics Society: Introducing the JBS Haldane Lecture 2011 (see below).
b. Revision to the Bylaws of the Genetics Society: Introducing the Genetics Society Training Grant (for information see,
http://www.genetics.org.uk/page/3326/The-Genetics-Society-Training-Grant.html)
c. Balfour Lecturer 2011: Dr Madan Babu Mohan
d. Genetics Society Medal 2011: Professor Jonathan Hodgkin
e. Mather Prize: Kreepa Kooblall
f. Election of new members
g. Election of new Committee members
h. Election of new Executive sub-Committee members
Item 4a. The JBS Haldane Lecture 2011 – Description of upcoming new award.
The Genetics Society announces a new prize lecture that will complement the medals and lectures it already awards. The JBS Haldane Lecture will recognise an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience. This speaker will have a flair for conveying the relevance and excitement of recent advances in genetics in an informative and engaging way.
The annual open lecture will be delivered on a topic, and in a place, agreed with the Genetics Society. The recipient will be selected by a committee chaired by the Genetics Society’s Vice President for the Public Understanding of Genetics (currently Steve Jones) from nominations made by Society members.
Nominees need not be members of the Society, but should be active researchers working in the UK. To make a nomination, please confirm that your candidate is willing to be nominated, then submit both a two-page CV and a short explanation of how the candidate meets these criteria.
In addition to delivering the Lecture, the nominee will receive an honorarium of £1,000 and a three-year membership of the Society. Documents should be submitted electronically to the Honorary Secretary of The Genetics Society (currently Patricia Kuwabara). Deadline to be announced.
Below are links to the minutes of previous Genetic Society Annual General Meetings.
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