UNC biologist Alan Jones has been elected to a three-year term on the executive committee of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Jones is the George and Alice Welsh Distinguished Professor in the departments of biology and pharmacology and the program in genetics and molecular biology.
The American Society of Plant Biologists, with headquarters in Rockville, Md., is a nonprofit science society of 5,000 members from the United States and about 60 other nations. The society publishes the two most frequently cited plant science journals, The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology.
Jones has been active with the society for more than a decade. Since 2005, he has been associate editor of Plant Physiology, and he served on the journal’s editorial board from 1991 to 1998.
For more information, visit http://www.aspb.org/.
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Weaver Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu