Editorial

Final call for papers! Abstracts for the annual meeting in February must be in by 2 November. Instructions and the form for submitting them are in the back of this issue of the journal. Abstracts may also be submitted electronically. Information about electronic submission is included in the abstract instructions. In addition, we can accept late abstracts if there is room in the divisional program for which they are submitted and we intend to publish them in the April issue of the Journal. Previously late abstracts were not published.

I urge all of you submitting abstracts to consider publishing your research and other creative efforts in this journal. Some of the research you do is local in nature, and would be most appropriate to publish in this journal. I especially want to point out that the annual meeting has traditionally been a place for graduate students to get their first exposure to public presentations outside of home audiences. This journal is an appropriate place for graduate research papers. Students would have the experience of a formal peer review and they would be able to publish research that might otherwise never go beyond their thesis or dissertation.

I remind you that we accept general articles, research articles, descriptions of laboratory procedures appropriate for teaching laboratories, and brief communications. Further descriptions of these publication types are found on the back inside cover of any recent issue.--Ken Curry