PECS news

George Aboagye and Jess Rollason have stepped down from their committee positions and we would like to thank them for their dedicated work with PECS. We are pleased to announce that, Simon Gould (Chair) and Amara Anyogu (Secretary) have been duly elected into these positions, welcome to you both.



The PECS committee would now like to invite nominations for events officer, events team, communications officer and Webmaster. The posts are available from October 2009 (for one year’s term) and are open to all student or early career scientist members of SfAM.



As part of the events team members are responsible for organising the PECS events at the annual summer conference. This includes an icebreaker session, a dedicated student and early career scientist workshop and social activities.



The communications officer is responsible for compiling the PECS dedicated page in Microbiologist and a monthly PECS news section for the SfAM email bulletin. Other responsibilities include attending the SfAM communications subcommittee meeting and becoming involved with SfAM communication initiatives.

The Webmaster is responsible for updating the blog to keeps PECS members up to date on PECS news and events.



If you think you would like to become involved in the PECS committee, please email pecs@sfam.org.uk