Board meeting, May 24, 2003, at Lunch, HOTEL KALASTAJATORPPA, Helsinki

Attendees: Jens Lagergren, David Liberles, Maidu Remm, Mainu Vihinen, Inge Johansen, Nikolai Blom, Bo Servenius

• This year meeting - send out a questionaire to pick up ideas and suggestions for improvements. Nikolaj Blom

• Next year meeting

  • The proposal from Linköping was discussed

  • Several informal proposals have been given during the days (UU, UmU, GU). This interest of organizing the conference is promising for the future. It was discussed how proposals should be handled in the future. It was decided that a general invitation for proposals should be sent out two month before the yearly conference and that the deadline should be one month before the conference.

  • Organizing committee: -----

    • OC to be headed by Bengt Persson and Jesper Tegnér

    • To ensure continuity it is suggested that Mauno Vihinen takes part in OC

  • Program committee

    • PC chairman appoints committee – each member responsible for one session and may recruit additional members if needed/desirable

    • PC to be headed by Jesper Tegnér 

    • Program session suggestions:

      • drug design - Marc Johnson

      • genotyping methods (Estonia)

      • systems biology - Jesper Tegnér

      • genome comparison - Mariana Alexandersson, Göteborg ?

      • proteomics 

      • RNA - Arne Elofsson??

• Economics and bookkeeping

  • Until now Bengt Persson has keept our assets at an account at Karolinska Institute. There has been problems to get the Society registered with Swedish authorities. Now with Bengt not any longer at the board several options where discussed.

  • David Liberles will check out on the possibilities to register the Society in Norway. Maidu Remm will do the same for Estonia.

• Web activities

  • David Liberles has volunteered to administer the web server and maillist - will take over the stuff from Bengt's server at Karolinska.

  • Suggestions for new stuff to put there:

    • Listings of educations in SocBiN countries

    • Listings of research groups in SocBiN countries

    • Conferences and meetings of interest

    • Other stuff of interest.

  • Start with brief listings and invite teachers and project groups to supply contact info and a short description.

  • Send out email to Socbin lists with invitation for this