Dear Colleagues,

The results of the SBIC Council election are in, and I am delighted to welcome Paul Donnelly, Oliver Einsle, and Emma Raven as newly elected Council members. Congratulations to all three! The election was strongly contested, with all candidates polling very well; it bodes very well indeed for the future of the Society that we had such a strong field of candidates, all of whom have such enthusiasm for the Society and willingness to serve and advance its goals.

As well as the regional AsBIC meeting in Auckland in December that I highlighted in my previous note, January will see the 5th Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC-2017) held in Kolkata, India. It looks to be an exciting meeting and we wish the organisers Shyamalava Mazumdar and Abhishek Dey, committed SBIC members, every success as we look forward to the boost it will give to Indian Bioinorganic chemistry.

The organisers of the next ICBIC and the ICBIC International Organising Committee (IOC) have contacted us because they have become aware of other conferences being advertised using the ICBIC name. ICBIC is a long-standing series of meetings, and the next meetings in the sequence are awarded by the ICBIC IOC, currently led by its secretary Ken Karlin. To be clear, the cannonical, IOC-awarded, and SBIC-sponsored ICBIC, the 18th in this great series, is the one that will take place in Florianopolis in the south of Brazil from July 31-August 4, 2018.

With best wishes to all,

Mike Hannon

Birmingham, UK

October 2016