Meeting Minutes
SINO-Micro 2010 ASM San Diego Meeting, May 26, 2010, 6:30 PM, Panda Inn Restaurant, San Diego, CA
Prepared by Zhao-Qing Luo
With the generous sponsorship from Wenyuan Shi and the coordination work of Frank Yang, the
Sino-Micro group has its first gathering at San Diego on May 26, 2010. A total of 19 members
(list below) attended the meeting. The attendees first recognized the great effort by Frank Yang
in bringing the group together. The meeting also acknowledged the initiations from Hao Shen
and Guangming Zhong in establishing this organization. The great work done by Oliver He for
building the official website and Chuanwu Xi for drafting the bylaws was also appreciated. The
meeting discussed several important issues about our association, including objectives,
organization and administration.
Objectives:
1. To provide opportunities for members to know the research programs of other members.
2. To establish a social network which can facilitate our career development.
3. To work as a group to create a platform for enhancing scientific interactions with our
colleagues in China
Organization and administration:
1. This will be a registered non-for-profit organization.
2. The members will elect a president and a president-elect who will serve for a two-year
term. Other executive officers will be appointed by the president.
3. There will be a $10 membership fee each year.
4. In the initial phase, the membership is only open to principal investigators.
5. A newsletter will be published periodically on the website.
The attending members formed a quorum and elected the founding president, board members,
and other executive officers as follow:
Wenyuan Shi:
Frank Yang:
Chuanwu Xi:
Oliver He:
President:
President-elect and Secretary
Treasurer
Communication Officer
Board of Director:
Joe Jizhong Zhou (Univ. of Oklahoma):
Chair (approved by the President and the Board)
Yiming Shao (NCAIDS, China)
Hao Shen (Uni. of Pennsylvania)
Yiwei Tang (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Hua Wang (Ohio State Univ.)
Jing-Ren Zhang (QingHua Univ./Albany Medical College)
Qijing Zhang (Iowa State Univ.)
Guangming Zhong (UT San Antonio)
Other topics discussed:
1. Membership, whether it is open to postdocs and graduate students working in
microbiology
2. Potential collaboration between Sino-Micro and Journal of Microbes and Infection
(http://jmi.fudan.edu.cn/cn/dqml.asp) in aspects such as reviewing service, contributing
articles to the journal and the use of the journal as a vehicle to recruit postdocs from
China.
3. Help to host and screen graduate students supported by the Chinese government to work
in US labs
4. Whether regular activities should be organized, the present consensus is to use events like
the ASM annual meeting as vehicles for member gathering
5. Put the CV of our members on the website so that our colleagues in China can self-match
with people with common research interests. A linkage to our website will be added to
the website of the China Society of Microbiology (CSM)
6. The possibility of having a session available for members to present their research in the
annual meeting of the CSM.
7. The possibility of seeking fund from the Chinese government to support scientific
activities in China
8. The possibility for members to teach at small workshops of specific topics in universities
and institutions in China
Appendix:
SINO-Micro 2010 ASM San Diego Meeting Roster
May 26, 2010, 6:30 PM, Panda Inn Restaurant, San Diego, CA
Name
Place
Interest
Bai, Guangchun
Albany Medical College
Mycobacteria
Jin, Shouguang
Univ. of Florida
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Li, Zhongwei
Florida Atlantic University
bacterial RNA
Qiu, Xiaoyun
USDA, CA
EHEC
Lin, Jun
University of Tennessee
Campylobacter jejuni
Luo, Zhao-Qing
Purdue University
Legionella
Shao, Yiming
NCAIDS
HIV
Shi, Wenyuan
UCLA School of Dentistry
Myxococcus
Tang, Yi-Wei
Vanderbilt University
Clinical Microbiology
Wen, Zezhang Tom
Louisiana State University
Streptococcus mutans
Wang, H. Hua
Ohio State University
Food Microbiology
Wu, Hui
University of Alabama
Streptococcus
Xi, Chuanwu (Wu)
University of Michigan
Environmental Microbiology
Xu, Ping
Streptococci
Yang, Xiaofeng
Frank
Zhang, Qijing
Virginia Commonwealth
University
Indiana University School of
Medicine
Iowa State University
Zhang, Jing-Ren
Albany Medical College
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Zhou, Jizhong Joe
University of Oklahoma
microbial genomics
Zhu, Jun (Jay)
University of Pennsylvania
Vibrio cholera
Borrelia burgdorferi, Leptospira
Campylobacter jejuni.