The Secretariat apologises for the delay in the elections process of APBioNet since last year.

We would like to inform you that APBioNet would like to hold elections to the APBioNet Executive Committee (ExCo) for 2005-2006.

The format of the elections as proposed by the outgoing President of APBioNet submitted in September 2004 will be adopted wherever applicable and implementable, except that the Committee size will be expanded to accommodate the growing diversity of APBioNet.

Nominations will remain open till 21 July 2005. Elections will take place from then till August 31st 2005.

In keeping with tradition, the APBioNet Exco would like to hold the Annual General Meeting of APBioNet during InCoB 2005 (22-24 Sep 2005) in Pusan, Korea. This year, we will welcome the elected ExCo members at this AGM.

The exact date and venue of the AGM 2005 will be announced as soon as our request to InCoB 2005 organisers is accepted.

Election Candidates which we have obtained so far, correct as at nominations closing 21st July 2005 are as follows Please send in any new candidates to nominate __at__ apbionet.org.

Election Candidates:

President
Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia. (Consented)

Vice President
Yang Ueng-Cheng, National YangMing University, Taiwan. (Consented)

Committee Members

• Daniel Sze, University of Sydney, Australia. (Consented) CV
• Vladimir Brusic, University of Queensland, Australia (Consented) CV
• Jingchu Luo, CBI, Peking University, PR China. (Consented) CV
• Madhanmohan, India
• H A Nagarajaram, CDFD, Hyderabad, India (Consented) CV
• Allen Rodrigo, University of Auckland, New Zealand (Declined)
• Antonius Suwanto, Indonesia (Consented) CV
• Akihiko Konagaya, Chairman, LSGrid Symposium, RIKEN GSC, Japan (Consented) CV
• Haruki Nakamura, Head, PDBj, Osaka University, Japan (Consented) CV
• Kim Cheolmin, Pusan University Korea
• Rahmah Mohamed, Malaysia Genome Institute, UKM, Malaysia (Consented) CV
• Sheila Nathan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Consented) CV
• Gloria Despacio-Reyes, Philippines (President NIMBUS) (Consented) CV
• Richard Bruskiewich, IRRI, Philippines (Declined)
• Meena Sakharkar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Consented) CV
• Kishore Sakharkar, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore (Declined)
• Jagath Rajapakshe, Nanyang Technological University Singapore (Consented)
• Martti Tammi, National University of Singapore. (Consented) CV
• Pawan Dhar, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore (Declined)
• Prasit Palittapongarnpim, BIOTEC, Thailand
• Wasun Chantratita, AVIST, Thailand
• Amandeep S. Sidhu, Structural Bioinformatics Researcher at Faculty of IT, University of Technology Sydney. CV

Please send any new nominations to nominate __at__ apbionet.org by 2359h GMT+0800 21st July 2005.

Dr Tan Tin Wee
Elections Officer
APBioNet Secretariat

Note on the Qualifications of Nominees, Nominator and Nomination process

Only Bioinformatics Leaders in the Asia Pacific region, with demonstrated track record and contributions to the promotion and advancement of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific should be considered.

Nominations can only be made by APBioNet members. To join APBioNet, please fill in the online form at:
http://www.apbionet.org/join.html

Nominees' consent should obtained and emailed to nominate __at__ apbionet.org.