BIOMETRICS SECTION ANNUAL BUSINNESS MEETING AT THE 2007 JSM
Are you coming to the JSM in Salt Lake City? The Biometrics Mixer and Section Business Meeting has been scheduled for Monday, 7/30/2007, from 5:30PM to 7:00PM in room 155B at the Convention Center. In addition to a brief summary and discussion of Section business, the David Byar Young Investigator Award and the Biometrics Section Travel Awards will be presented. All are encouraged to attend and refreshments will be available. Come and meet your fellow Biometrics Section members!

EXCITING PROGRAM AT THE 2007 JSM
The theme of this year's Joint Statistical Meetings, July 29- August 2 in Salt Lake City, Utah is "Statistics: Harnessing the power of information”. Be sure to check out the following events sponsored by the Biometrics Section.

Continuing education courses:

• “Statistical Genetics”, by Kenneth Lange, Janet Sinsheimer and Eric Sobel on 7/31 from 8:30AM to 5:00PM.
• “Dropout in Longitudinal Studies”, by Mike Daniels and Joe Hogan on 7/31 from 8:30AM to 5:00PM.

Invited sessions

• “Challenging Issues in Longitudinal Biomedical Data Analysis”, organized by Annie Qu, Oregon State University on 7/29 from 4:00PM to 5:50PM.
• “Statistical Methods for Gene Regulatory Networks”, organized by Tian Zheng, Columbia University on 7/30 from 8:30AM to 10:20AM.
• “Statistics in Genomics and Proteomics”, organized by Huixia Wang, North Carolina State University on 7/30 from 10:30AM to 12:20PM.
• “Design of Experiments for Categorical Data”, organized by Min Yang, University of Missouri – Columbia on 7/31 from 10:30AM to 12:20PM.
• “Statistical Methodology for the Analysis of Sleep Studies”, organized by Brian Caffo, John Hopkins School of Public Health on 8/1 from 8:30AM to 10:20AM.
• “Frailty Models for Survival Analysis”, organized by Xuelin Huang, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center on 8/1 from 10:30AM to 12:20PM.
• “New Developments in the Analysis of Medical Data with Complex Structures”, organized by Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri on 8/2 from 10:30AM to 12:20PM.

Check the online program at the 2007 JSM web site (available through the ASA web site www.amstat.org) for updates on locations and times.

JSM 2008
It is time to start thinking about invited sessions for next year's Joint Statistical Meetings, which will be held August 3 - August 7 in Denver, Colorado. Anyone who is interested in organizing an invited session or who has ideas for one, please contact our 2008 Program Chair, Debashis Ghosh, at ghoshd@umich.edu.

A typical invited session consists of three 30-minute talks followed by a 10-minute invited discussion and 10 minutes of floor discussion. However, other formats are possible. The 2007 program is a good source for examples.

Remember, the most mature ideas will have an advantage in competing for the limited number of slots, so it's best to have your ideas in final form by the middle of June. The Biometrics Section will have at least four invited sessions, but if we generate enough good ideas we will be able to compete for additional slots as well.

Decisions will be made in July, so don't delay!