APS Virology Committee

The APS Virology Committee

Virology related affairs of the American Phytopathological Society are run by a committee, the Virology Committee, natch!

Committee membership is governed by rules and guidelines promulgated by APS. These stated (may have been revised):

"All committee members begin their service on a committee at the time of their appointment, i.e. when APS Council approves their appointment and they have been so notified by the Chair of the Committee on Committees. Their service on that committee ends at the beginning of the APS annual meeting 3 years later. The length of service on a committee may be lengthened if a committee member is elected to be vice-chair. The length of service is then extended to cover the time the member serves as vice chair, chair, and immediate past-chair of the committee. Typically, one-third of the committee is appointed each year. "

Each year at the APS annual meeting, a vote elects a new Vice Chair. The new Vice Chair assumes his/her duties immediately after the annual meeting, and the previous Vice Chair is elevated to Chair.

VIROLOGY COMMITTEE STRUCTURE:

Chair:	Ramon L. Jordan
Vice Chair:	Naidu A. Rayapati
Immediate Past Chair:	Dennis Lewandowski

Members and end year of appointment:

Christie V. Almeyda	2011	Rodolfo Acosta-Leal	2010
Akhtar Ali	2010	Carlos A. Angel	2009
Francisco M. Assis Filho	2008	Elizabeth V. Campoverde	2011
John Hammond	2010	Ramon L. Jordan	2011
Robert T. Lartey	2011	Rosemarie Hammond	2011
Clarissa J. Maroon-Lango	2009	Ulrich K. Melcher	2011
Baozhong Meng	2009	Mysore R. Sudarshana	2011
William Schneider	2010	Ali Idris	2010
Hanu Pappu	2011	Rayapati Naidu	2011
Michael T. Watson	2009	Ioannis E. Tzanetakis	2010
Anna E. Whitfield	2009	Ismael Badillo-Vargas	2011
Aleksandra Bulajic	2010	Maria Luisa Burgos	2010
Fiorella M. Cisneros	2011	Carola Maria De La Torre Cuba	2011
Sahar Eid	2011	Reza R. Hajimorad	2011
Stephen F. Hanson	2011	Naidu A. Rayapati	2011
Sead Sabanadzovic	2011	Ramaiah K. Sampangi	2011

VIROLOGY COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOR THE LAST 22 YEARS:

C. D'Arcy	Hampton	A. Dodds
J. Sherwood	Hewings	S. Lommel
Jordan	R. Gergerich	T. German
J. Hammond	J. Hu	M. Edwards
R. Nelson	M. Deom	J. Culver
K. Scheets	W. M. Wintermantel	John Murphy
Judy Brown	Scott Adkins	Alexander Karasev
	Rosemarie Hammond

SUB-COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS:

APHIS Permit System (New Virus Working Group)	John Hill
Plant Virus Slide Sets	O.W. Barnett
ATCC Board of Directors (APS Representative)	Rick Nelson