Meeting Minutes April 12, 2007

Biomedical Sciences Club Meeting Minutes
http://advising.vetsci.psu.edu/bmsc/
April 11, 2007
Life Sciences Building 301d

Start: 6:03pm

The guest speaker at this meeting was Dr. Yoder from Indiana University.

1. T-shirts are in, we will hand them out during the next meeting. We ordered extras, so if you want one you can still get one!

2. We had nominations for officers for next semester. If you wish to be nominated for a position, you have until our next meeting on April 25th. To be nominated you need to have active member status, if you are not sure if you have active member status contact Kara our membership chair. The people nominated thus far are:

President: Matt Gardner
Vice President: Anna Han
Secretary: Lauren Ellis, Emily Sun
Membership Chair: Kara Mosovsky
Treasurer: Dan Silverman
Web Team Coordinator: Trey Burket, Emily Sun
Ag. Student Council Representative: Priyanka Basak

3. BIODAYS is this Saturday! It’s in Osmond from 10am-3pm, and our club is presenting the activity of DNA isolation. We need people to volunteer, so if you could spare some time this Saturday just stop on by Osmond. Our table is located in the lobby, first one on the left. It will be lots of fun!!

4. Our next meeting will be on April 25. We will hold officer elections during this meeting; and instead of having a speaker we will be watching the movie Gattaca.

Adjourn: 7:00pm

Journal club

British Team grows human heart valve from stem cells (Guardian, April 2, 2007) Discussion will be on Wednesday, April 18 at 6:00pm in 301D Life Sciences.

Next Week's Meeting

Hey All!

Our next meeting is next Wednesday, April 11 at 6:00 PM in 301D Life
Sciences Building. The speaker will be Merve Yoder from the Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Indiana University School of
Medicine (he does stem cell research!). Check out his website at the link
below:

http://www.wellscenter.iupui.edu/yoder.html

Guess what have finally arrived?!?! T-SHIRTS!!!! :) They look GREAT! If
you can get to Wednesday's meeting a little early we can distribute the
shirts before the meeting. Otherwise you'll have to wait until the end of
the meeting to get them.

It seems like the semester just started, but we're back to officer
nominations again! Remember that in order to run for an officer position
you must have attended 5 meetings this semester and have accumulated 2
hours of non-meeting hours (journal discussion, t-shirt designs, volunteer
fair). We are having another journal discussion before elections, plus
there is still BioDays--if you still need outside hours (or if you want to
be cool and have fun volunteering with the club). We will announce the
journal article at this Wednesday's meeting (it will also be on the
website), and you will also have the chance to sign up for BioDays.

I will compile a list of members/outside hours/attendance, and make
photocopies for the next meeting, so that you can see if you are eligible
to run for an office. It appears that some of you are on the border line
and must come to this coming meeting and/or participate in some outside
hours to be eligible.

**You must have 5 meetings after this coming meeting! Elections will be
two weeks after.