SBIC

Note from the SBIC President

Alison Butler

� SBIC 2012

Dear SBIC Members and All Readers of JBIC,

I am excited to assume the role of President of SBIC! It

is humbling to follow the former SBIC Presidents, from

C. David Garner, the first President of SBIC, to Elizabeth

C. Theil, Alfred X. Trautwein, Harry B. Gray, Fraser

Armstrong, Bob Scott, Trevor Hambley and Jose

J. G. Moura, all of whom have brilliantly led SBIC and

achieved so much for this international society alongside

the SBIC Council in a relatively short period of time.

A special thanks to Jose Moura for his leadership these past

two years and for keeping me in the loop this past year. I

look forward to working with Wonwoo Nam, Secretary of

SBIC, and Graeme Hanson, Treasurer of SBIC, the SBIC

Council, as well as Jose as immediate Past President of

SBIC, and certainly with all of you. Voting on the three

incoming SBIC Council members continues through

August 31st, 2012; we enthusiastically welcome the three

new Council members and reluctantly say goodbye to Julie

Kovacs, Janet R. Morrow and Paola Turano, who have just

finished their terms on the SBIC Council.

Graeme Hanson, our trusted SBIC Treasurer, informs

me that SBIC is financially secure! Thanks to all of you

who renew your SBIC memberships. Welcome to the new

members! Keep recommending SBIC membership to your

colleagues and students. We do need to build the mem-

bership with new members. The Online Membership

Application http://www.sbichem.org/membership.php is

most convenient. A huge benefit of SBIC membership is

our friendly and collaborative global community and the

exceptional international conferences. We certainly expe-

rienced one a year ago at ICBIC-15 in Vancouver.

Between now and ICBIC-16 next summer, two more BIC

conferences will convene, with EUROBIC11, the 11th Euro-

pean Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, and AsBIC-

VI, the 6th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference.

EUROBIC11 will be held on 12–16 September 2012 in

Granada, Spain. The EUROBIC11 Congress Chairs, Josefa

Marıa Gonzalez-Perez, Antonio Matilla Hernandez, and

Juan Niclos-Gutierrez (all from Universidad de Granada)

have organized a terrific conference. The recipient of the

EUROBIC Medal for Younger Scientists will give the

concluding talk at EUROBIC11. I will be headed to this

conference in a few weeks and I’ll be sure to report back in

an upcoming column.

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AsBIC-VI will be held 5–8 November 2012 in Hong

Kong. The Chairs of the AsBIC-VI, Hongzhe Sun (Uni-

versity of Hong Kong) and Wing-Tak Wong (Hong Kong

Polytechnic University) have organized a conference with

sessions focused on metal homeostasis, metal-nucleic acid

and metal-gene regulation, metallomics and metalloprote-

omics, metallodrugs, (metallo)molecular imaging, and

protein engineering and biomimetics.

Finally, planning for next summer is coming up sooner

than you might expect! I look forward to seeing you all at

ICBIC-16, which will be held 14–19 July 2013 in Greno-

ble, France. The six plenary lecturers include Frank Neese

(Mulheim, Germany), Thomas O’Halloran (Evanston, IL,

USA), Markus Ribbe (Irvine, CA, USA), Jean-Michel

Saveant (Paris, France), Kazuyuki Tatsumi (Nagoya,

Japan) and Eva Toth (Orleans, France), along with 2012

SBIC Early Career Award winner Carsten Krebs (Penn

State University, University Park, PA, USA) and the still-

to-be-selected 2013 SBIC Early Career Award winner.

ICBIC-16 is shaping up to be a spectacular meeting!

I welcome your ideas and suggestions on the continuing

development of SBIC.

Alison Butler

Santa Barbara, CA, USA

August 2012

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