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E-Board No. 90

July 2, 2010

Message from the President

Re: Membership Renewals

Several members have raised queries about their membership renewals. This is to inform everyone about the situation. The ISDCI account was moved from Jackson, Mississippi, USA to Prague, Czech Republic last autumn because of the retirement of Norman Miller and the transfer of the Society Treasurership to Martin Bilej. However there proved to be some complications and unacceptable charges associated with setting up a secure on-line payment system and in processing credit card payments with the new bank. This became conspicuous around the time of the membership renewals. There was little choice but to transfer the ISDCI account to another bank in Prague but unfortunately this delayed the processing of some membership renewal transactions and the sending out of acknowledgements. However a full list of members has been sent to Elsevier and we have received a small royalty from the publisher which has been paid into the ISDCI account. Martin is now working to complete the processing of all the remaining membership renewals and will be sending out acknowledgments over the next few weeks.

On behalf of Martin and the other Society Officers, I offer my sincere apologies for the confusion and inconvenience this has brought to affected members. I ask for your patience for just a little longer and would like you all to know that ISDCI values all its members, new and long-standing. Further information will be sent out as matters progress.

Thank you for your patience.
Kind regards

Val Smith


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News from the Members

Congratulations to Loroano Ballarin (University of Padova, Italy) on his accession to the Presidency of the Italian Association for Developmental and Comparative Immunobiology (IADCI; <http://www.unipa.it/~siics/>http://www.unipa.it/~siics/). This is a large and active national group of comparative immunologists, many of whom are ISDCI members and loyal supporters of our triennial Congresses. All the best to Loriano and IADCI for the future.

Val Smith

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