Good morning Phycological Section Members
(on the web at: http://www.botany.org/news/newsletters/phycological061120.php)

2006 BSA PHYCOLOGICAL SECTION ELECTRONIC BALLOT

Below you will find the 2007 Phycological Section Electronic Election Ballot.

The ballot includes a brief biography for the candidate followed by "email voting links" to be used to cast your votes. Please vote for the person listed or your write in candidate.

Electronic Voting will close at 11:59 PM on Friday, December 1 ^st, 2006.

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Candidate for Chair

Kenneth (Ken) Karol is a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington - Seattle. Dr. Karol received his bachelor's degree in Botany from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1992, spent four years as a technician at DePaul University (Chicago, IL), and two years as a technician at the Smithsonian Institution Laboratory of Molecular Systematics (Suitland, MD). He received his Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Maryland - College Park in 2004. Dr. Karol uses molecular phylogenetic methods to investigate the early evolution of green plants (green algae and land plants) with an emphasis on 1) the early branching events within green algae, as well as between green algae and land plants (embryophytes), and 2) the systematics and taxomomy of the fresh water green algal family Characeae. His work combines classical botanical methods with molecular biology, genomic and computational methods to reconstruct the early history of evolution within green plants. Current research projects include sequencing complete chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes to address fundamental questions of plant and genome evolution and nuclear gene evolution in early diverging lineages of land plants.

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Candidates for Phycological Section Chair 2007-2009:

Kenneth Karol (Ken@botany.org)

Write-in Candidate (wdahl@botany.org)

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Thank you for your time!

Sincerely,

Martha Cook
Chair - Phycological Section
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