1. The annual business meeting of the members of the Behavior Genetics Association, a corporation not for profit, duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois, United States of America, was convened in the Adirondack C/D rooms of the Radisson Hotel, Burlington, Vermont, USA at 4:0 pm on the 30th day of June 2000.
   Those attending constituted a committee as a whole, and signed a record sheet indicating their attendance at the meeting. President Rose opened the meeting. He acknowledged the passing, during the past year, of J. Paul Scott, past President and Dobzhansky awardee, and two influential psychiatric geneticists, George Winokur, a charter member of BGA, and Seymour S. Kety.
2. Upon motion duly moved, seconded and carried, the minutes of the 1999 Behavior Genetics Association business meeting were approved as written.
3. The secretary's report was given. By provision of the by-laws of the Association, the Secretary is instructed to submit by mail ballot to the full membership of the Association the names of those nominated to be candidates for offices becoming vacant. This was done, with the notice that ballots were to be returned for tabulation by February 1, 2000. Election to office requires a plurality of those members voting with ties to be broken by lot. Tabulation of the votes received resulted in the election of Matt McGue as President- Elect, and Carol Prescott as Member-at-Large for Associate Members. Upon motion duly moved, seconded and carried, the election results were accepted. Written notification to members of election results, as required by the by-laws, is fulfilled via these minutes furnished to all members. Accordingly, the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Behavior Genetics Association at the close of the meeting will be:
   • John Hewitt, President
   • Matt McGue, President-Elect
   • Richard Rose, Past-President
   • Hermine Maes, Secretary
   • Pam Madden, Treasurer
   • Carol Prescott, Member-at-Large
   • Jennifer Harris, Member-at-Large
   • Irwin Waldman, Member-at-Large
   Upon motion duly moved, seconded and carried, the Secretary's Report was approved as submitted by Secretary Hermine Maes.
4. The Treasurer's report was submitted by Pamela Madden (see attached). The treasurer reported a similar balance in the financial status of the society. The Vancouver meeting made a profit of about $6000. However, dues payments are down and efforts will be made through the BGA website to improve the payment of dues. Upon motion duly moved, seconded and carried, the Treasurer's report was approved as submitted.
5. The Membership report was also submitted by Pamela Madden. Only 56% of members are current on dues, which hopefully will be improved by tracking people down by email. The treasurer reported that the active membership roster consisted of 395 members, of whom 275 are Full members, 98 are Associate members, and 22 are Retired members. This represents a net loss to the society of 29 members since the previous business meeting in 1999, with 27 new members and 74 members who were dropped from the active roster for non-dues payment. 275 of the members reside in North America, and 120 reside in other continents. Upon motion duly moved, seconded and carried, the Membership's report was approved as submitted.
6. The program committee report was given by John Hewitt. A total of 100 presentations were made at the meeting, including 36 posters, 64 oral presentations including symposium talks. In addition, there were an invited address and a presidential address. The program included 5 symposia and 7 paper sessions.
7. President Rose reported that the Executive Committee, in its constitutional role as a nomination committee, was nominating the following members for the offices indicated:
   • President-Elect: Nancy Pedersen and Hill Goldsmith
   • Secretary: Michael Pogue-Geile and Rick Viken
   • Member-at-Large (Regular Members): Caroline Van Baal and Marianne Wamboldt
   President Rose asked if there were nominations from the floor. Members were reminded that nominations from the floor required the support of five members in good standing. There being none, upon motion duly moved, seconded, and carried, nominations were closed. The Secretary was instructed to submit the slate of nominees to the membership by mail ballot.
8. The local host report was given by Jim Hudziak. There were a total of 125 registrants at the meeting, of which 90 pre-registered and 35 registered on site. President Rose expressed thanks for the superb meeting that Jim had organized.
9. Norman Henderson reported as Executive Editor of Behavior Genetics. He indicated that the journal received 51 submissions, plus 10 for the special December issue, since the last BGA meeting, slightly down from the previous year. The outright rejection rate is approximately 10%. The journal's policy is to work with authors through revisions rather than reject a paper and then invite resubmission of a revision. Currently about 40% of submissions to BG are electronic. The transition resulting from the purchase of Plenum journals by Kluwer continued to pose some difficulties for the journal, resulting primarily from personnel turnover in the Kluwer/Plenum journals department. Norm announced his intention retire from his duties as executive editor in 2001. The BGA Executive Committee has appointed Norm to chair a committee to search for a new BG executive editor. Suggestions for search committee members are welcome. Based on the 1998 SSI impact factors (latest) BG has an impact factor of 3.229 and ranks 26/103 on the Genetics & Heredity list, ahead of such journals as Human Genetics, Annals of Human Genetics and not far behind Evolution and Genomics. The first Fulker Award will be awarded to a paper or papers published in Volume 29 (1999) of Behavior Genetics. The editor requested that the language of the award legislation be changed slightly, to substitute 'particularly meritorious paper' for 'best paper'. The change was approved by the members in attendance.
10. Thalia Eley reported as local host for the 2001 meeting , to be held July 8-11, 2001 at Peterhouse College in Cambridge, England, immediately following the ISTS Twin Congress which will be held in London from July 4-7. The college is a 5 minute walk from the center of town. 60 rooms are available in the college; in addition a block of rooms is reserved in 3 hotels. BGA will organize a 3-day program of scientific sessions on July 9-11 , with on opening reception on Sunday night (July 8) and a banquet on Wednesday night (July 11). A preliminary webpage will be available soon and announced on BGAnet.
11. No definite offers to host future meetings after the Cambridge meeting have been received. The Hawai offer has been withdrawn. It is suggested to plan some future meetings, when possible and convenient, in conjunction with the American Psychological Society or the Society for Psychiatric Genetics or, as in 1999, with ISSID. After the business meeting, an offer was received from Marianne Wamboldt/John Hewitt to host the 2002 meeting in Colorado, with Keystone Resort or Boulder as possible venues.
12. There were no reports from other committees.
13. Other Business.
    • Marti Hahn talked about BG Archives and reported that the film by John Fuller can be used in academic settings, but that special equipment is required.
    • Jared B. Jobe, as representative of NIA, reported on a new program announcement on 'Adult Developmental Perspective' which funds RO1's, PO1's, and foreign components, training grants or supplements to existing training grants, career awards, and secondary data analysis.
    • Naimah Weinberg, as representative of NIDA, reported on several program announcements relevant to BG, which can be found in the Institute's website.
    The president thanked the outgoing members of the Executive Committee: Norm Henderson who served as president, Deborah Finkel as Member-at-Large for their outstanding efforts.

Respectfully submitted,

Hermine H. Maes
Secretary

Note from the Secretary:
At the Association Banquet, the Thompson Award for the best presentation by an associate member was made to Brian D'Onofrio, for his paper 'Partitioning the intergenerational transmission of parental smoking and child birth weight: The role of the children of twins methodology' and Nathan Gillespie, for his paper 'Direction of causation modeling between personality, measures of perceived parenting and recently experienced psychiatric symptoms'. The Dobzhansky award for Outstanding contributions to the field of Behavior Genetics was given to Pierre Roubertoux. The first Fulker award was given to ML Siegal, and DL Hartl for their paper 'Oviposition-site preference in Drosophila following interspecific gene transfer of the Alcohol dehydrogenase locus' and to MC Neale, SS Cherny, PC Sham, JB Whitfield, AC Heath, AC Birley, and NG Martin for their paper 'Distinguishing population stratification from linkage disequilibrium or pleiotropy with Mx: Association of ADH2 with alcohol consumption'.