With the summer coming to an end, we are fresh off a terrific ICBIC16 conference in Grenoble. We owe Marc Fontecave and his team congratulations and many thanks for an exciting meeting. We look forward to ICBIC17 in Beijing, China in 2015! Stay tuned on the developments of ICBIC17 over the coming year. The Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference is just around the corner, January 26–31, 2014. Joan Broderick is finalizing the program as this column goes to press.

The fall begins with a hearty welcome to Masao Ikeda-Saito (Tohoku University, Japan), who is SBIC’s new President-elect, and Amy Rosenzweig (Northwestern University), who is a new member of the SBIC Council, replacing Debbie Crans.

We can all thank the SBIC Nominations Committee, chaired this cycle by F. Ann Walker. She and Astrid Graslund are finishing up their terms on this committee. We thank Debbie Crans for her input to the SBIC Council. I would, of course, like to thank José Moura for his sage advice as Past-President of SBIC this past year.

Keep renewing your memberships and bringing younger scientists into SBIC. The SBIC membership link can be found at: https://amsweb.faseb.org/faseb/SBIC_members_online/members/newmember.asp.

Alison Butler

SBIC President, 2012–2014

Santa Barbara, CA

August 2013