New MAC Co-Chairs Come on Board

Latanya Hammonds Odie

Latanya Hammonds Odie

Mike Boyce

Mike Boyce

ASCB’s Minorities Affairs Committee (MAC) welcomed some new leadership this year. Mike Boyce, assistant professor of Biochemistry and member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, began his term as co-chair on January 1. He will remain in office until December 2021. Latanya Hammonds-Odie, associate professor of Biology at Georgia Gwinnett College, began her term as co-chair July 1, 2019, and will serve until June 30, 2022.

ASCB extends thanks to outgoing co-chairs Franklin Carrero-Martinez, director of the program for Science and Technology for Sustainability at the National Academy of Sciences, whose term ended December 2018, and Veronica Segarra, assistant professor of biology at High Point University, whose term ended June 30, 2019.

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Mary Spiro is ASCB's Strategic Communications Manager.