Passing the baton

As of July 2003, a new editorial team is leading the American Journal of Physiology (AJP)-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. We heartily thank Marty Kagnoff and the rest of the previous editorial team (Paul Kubes, Chung Owyang, Mark Czaja, Mark Brenner, and Helen Raybould) for strong service to the journal and the GI and Liver Physiology section of the American Physiological Society. Six years of providing timely and thoughtful service to the scientific community is a gift that is not lightly given and is gratefully received. In this January issue, readers are seeing the first issue in which the content predominantly comes from the work of the new editorial team. The group of Associate Editors is larger than the previous one, now numbering nine reviewing editors including Helen Raybould, who valiantly signed on for another term. This expanded team allowed us to broaden the interests represented among the group. In the following pages, the new editorial team is introduced with their photographs and thoughts about science and the journal.