1. The minutes of the previous meeting in Glenelg, South Australia, were accepted with typographical error corrections.

2. The coordinator Laura Bennet expressed the society’s thanks to the Cambridge committee for a superb meeting, both academically and socially and particularly praised the great efforts of Dino Giussani, the convenor. Enthusiastic applause endorsed the comments.

3. Website update. Laura Bennet reported that the site is up and running, and in use by members. The address is http://www.fnps-society.org/

4. Finances

a. Seed money

The practice of passing on approximately $3000 from the current meeting to the next will continue.

b. FNPS has no central budget, and the board considered a small membership fee. This was not recommended.

c. The long established aim of a fee of $500 for 3 days, shared accommodations is unrealistic in some venues. We will examine the equivalent cost over the past 5 years and consider this as the future target cost.

5. Changes to the Board

a. Laura Bennet will remain coordinator

b. Bill Parer will step down as scribe and Dino Giussani will assume this position in 2007

c. Mark Hanson is rotating off the board

d. Donald Peebles has accepted a position on the Board.

6. FNPS archives

a. 3 Sites, USA (Bill Parer), Europe (Jan Nijhuis), Pacific Rim (Richard Harding)

7. Future meetings

a. 2007 August 26-29, Sendai Japan, Kunihiro Okamura

b. 2008 June 22-25, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Jan Nijuis

c. 2009 Chile; Emilio Herrera and Claudia Torres-Farfan

d. 2010 ? USA

8. Prizes

a. Poster and oral prizes were announced at banquet. They were as follows:

Barbara Johnston Memorial Prize for Best Oral Communication:

Ms. Shathiyah Kulandavelu (eNOS and UBF)

The Barbara Johnston Memorial Prize for Best Poster Presentation:

Miss Brooke Summers (Zn and fetal alcohol syndrome)

Best Oral Communication:

Miss Rachel Gottschalk (Hypoxia and oxidative stress) and

Dr. Elvira Isganaitis. (Adapose gene expression in catch up growth)

Best Poster Presentation:

Mr. Varothayasingham Kirthi (Hypoxia and later metabolic disease) and

Mr. Guido Wassink (Cytochrome oxidase in umbilical cord occlusion)

Respectfully submitted,

Julian T. Parer, MD, PhD

Scribe

FNPS