06.05.01 Greetings everyone: On behalf of the Organizing Committee for the Boston Users Group for Cytometry (BUG), I am please to announce the return of the BUG's active status and my appointment as the new President. The future of the new BUG looks promising, but it depends on you (our members)! I want to thank all of you who have inquired about the BUG over the past several years. We have recently reorganized our leadership and organizational structure to best suit our Group's goals for the future. BUG's aim is to provide the structure for an educational society that rewards all that participate. To help us accomplish our goal, the Organizing Committee for BUG is seeking volunteers! We are looking for energetic individuals, with an interest in cytometry, who can help us with the major tasks of our Group. Volunteers will take part in committees whose tasks will be narrowly focused. Committees will divide and meet as sub-committees as often as is required. If you are interested in participating, please contact a member of the Organizing Committee below. If you know of other cytometrists interested in volunteering please pass this letter along to them. This letter will be posted on our web site as well. http://www.primushost.net/~bugbytes/ State your preference to which area(s) you would like to get involved: · Meetings Committee: I. Speaker sub-committee Responsible for recruiting potential speakers, meeting speaker needs including A/V, transportation, and lodging. II. Vendor sub-committee Responsible for contacting vendors, organizing where vendors send literature to meeting place, vendor acknowledgement poster. III. Venue sub-committee Responsible for locating new venues, obtaining pricing information, vendor table/electricity (facility) needs, directions, and parking information. · Communications Committee: I. Web site sub-committee Responsible for submitting or recruiting submissions to the web page, new ideas on web page content, up dating web page links. II. Membership sub-committee Responsible for updating the membership directory, communicating meeting information to members, and publishing the annual membership directory. · Business Administration Committee: I. Charter sub-committee Responsible for creating our charter and getting it out on the web. II. Non-Profit subcommittee Responsible for establishing BUGs non-profit status. There are many IRS rules and forms to fill out on this subject and we need help researching this issue. III. Audio/Visual Responsible for speaker AV needs. On meeting date, you will be in charge of lights, projector, microphone, podium, and laser pointer. Please contact any of the Organizing Committee members listed below to get involved in BUG. All the very best, Richard Konz President, The Boston Users Group for Cytometry Rich Konz rkonz@genetics.com Glenn Paradis gap@mit.edu John Daley john daley2@dfci.harvard.edu Chris Groves groves@mpi.com Nancy Perlmutter ngp@shapirolab.com Dr. Frederic I Preffer preffer@helix.mgh.harvard.edu Richard Konz, Jr. Manager; Flow and Image Cytometry Core Facility Genetics Institute 87 Cambridge Park Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 617.665.8765 rkonz@genetics.com
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