Associate editor: Sharona Gordon

The JGP is pleased to announce that Sharona Gordon, associate professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington, has become an associate editor. Sharona has held a Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professorship and served with distinction on many national and institutional committees, including the National Institutes of Health/CSR Neurotransmitter Transporter, Receptors and Channels study section, the Biophysical Society Council, and the Biophysical Society Program Committee, which she has chaired for the 2012 meeting. She has been a member of the JGP Editorial Board since 2000, and in 2010 was the organizer and editor of the excellent Perspectives on Local Calcium Signaling (Gordon, 2010; JGP 136:117). Sharona brings to the editorial position a depth of research experience with cyclic nucleotide–activated and TRP channels, and a broad knowledge of neuronal signaling. She also brings to the job a special passion for the recruiting, training, and education of young scientists.