From owner-csm@net.bio.net Fri Feb 03 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news.cs.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: CSM Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: Bionet Info sheet (monthly posting) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 18:25:04 EST Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 805 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <9502032325.AA15909@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca [Moderator's note: This is a monthly posting sent out near the first of each month. Apologies if you have received this twice, but NRC has been having both mail and news problems. - JN] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BIOSCI ELECTRONIC NEWSGROUP NETWORK INFORMATION SHEET (last revised 12-JAN-95) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the BIOSCI information sheet for the Americas and Pacific Rim countries. If you are located in Europe, Africa, or Central Asia, please retrieve that version of the information sheet by sending the command info ukinfo in the body of an e-mail message addressed to the Internet address biosci-server@net.bio.net Any text placed on the Subject: line of your message is ignored, so please be sure to put the "info ukinfo" command in the main body of your e-mail message. New users of BIOSCI/bionet may want to read the "Frequently Asked Questions" or "FAQ" sheet for BIOSCI. The FAQ provides details on how to participate in these forums and is available by gopher to net.bio.net or anonymous FTP to net.bio.net [134.172.2.69] in pub/BIOSCI/doc/biosci.FAQ. It may also be requested by sending e-mail to biosci-server@net.bio.net as described above except that the command info faq should be used in the body of the mail message. The FAQ is also posted on the first of each month to the newsgroup BIONEWS/bionet.announce immediately following the posting of both versions of the BIOSCI information sheet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents of this Document ------------------------- Introduction List of BIOSCI Mailing Lists and Newsgroups List of BIOSCI Newsgroup Topics BIOSCI Newsgroup Discussion Leaders Participating in BIOSCI Using USENET News Software Participating in BIOSCI by E-mail E-mail Subscription Requests and other Information E-mail Address Changes Interruption of E-mail Service Posting Messages to Newsgroups by E-mail Retrieval of old postings from the BIOSCI archives BIOSCI "prototype" newsgroups Retrieving Other BIOSCI Documentation Introduction ------------ The BIOSCI newsgroup network was developed to allow easy worldwide communications between biological scientists who work on a variety of computer networks. BIOSCI is supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and National Institutes of Health in the U.S.A. and by the Science and Engineering Research Council Daresbury Laboratory in the United Kingdom. BIOSCI services are available to users free of charge. BIOSCI messages are distributed by two means: USENET news software and electronic mail. WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ALL INTERESTED USERS TO EXPLORE GETTING "USENET NEWS" SOFTWARE AT YOUR SITE. The software is in the public domain, and you will find it much more convenient than subscribing to newsgroups by e-mail. Please consult your systems manager (the software may already be available on a machine at your institution) or contact biosci-help@net.bio.net for a list of software available free of charge on the Internet. NOTE, however, that the installation and maintenance of news software requires the assistance of a trained systems operator in most cases and is not a task to be undertaken by a computer novice. Why is news software preferable to e-mail? News software recovers messages automatically after network interruptions, whereas your e-mail address may have to be removed from the subscription list at times if your computer/network malfunctions and undelivered mail starts bouncing back to the BIOSCI administrative sites. You will have to manually retrieve lost messages from the archives if your e-mail subscription is suspended. News software organizes messages by topic and subtopic for easy browsing. In contrast if you subscribe by e-mail to more than one discussion list, messages from multiple lists arrive into your personal mail file in chronological order of posting only and are mixed in with your personal messages. You have to connect the discussion threads yourself if you use e-mail. In summary, e-mail participation should be seen as a LAST RESORT to be used only if news software can not be installed locally. Fortunately, BIOSCI offers advantages for e-mail users too. By having distribution sites or "nodes" on each major network, BIOSCI allows its e-mail users to contact people around the world without having to learn a variety of computer addressing tricks. Any user can simply post a message to his/her regional BIOSCI node and copies of that message will be distributed automatically to all other subscribers on all of the participating networks, including the Internet, USENET, BITNET, EARN, NETNORTH, HEANET, and JANET. List of BIOSCI Mailing Lists and Newsgroups ------------------------------------------- BIOSCI messages are distributed on the newsgroups in the "bionet" hierarchy of USENET and on the corresponding mailing lists indicated below. Contents of the USENET newsgroups and the e-mail distributions are *identical*, i.e., messages sent in by e-mail are also forwarded to USENET and messages posted to USENET newsgroups are also distributed to e-mail subscribers. An expanded description of the purpose of each newsgroup follows this list. MAILING LIST NAME USENET Newsgroup Name ----------------- --------------------- ACEDB-SOFT bionet.software.acedb AGEING bionet.molbio.ageing AGROFORESTRY bionet.agroforestry ARABIDOPSIS bionet.genome.arabidopsis ASCB ** bionet.prof-society.ascb BIOCAN bionet.prof-society.cfbs BIOFORUM bionet.general BIO-INFORMATION-THEORY + bionet.info-theory BIONAUTS bionet.users.addresses BIONEWS ** bionet.announce BIO-JOURNALS ** bionet.journals.contents BIO-MATRIX bionet.molbio.bio-matrix BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** bionet.prof-society.biophysics BIOPHYSICS bionet.biophysics BIO-SOFTWARE bionet.software BIOTHERMOKINETICS bionet.metabolic-reg BIO-WWW ** bionet.software.www CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH bionet.biology.cardiovascular CELEGANS bionet.celegans CELL-BIOLOGY bionet.cellbiol CHLAMYDOMONAS bionet.chlamydomonas CHROMOSOMES bionet.genome.chromosomes COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** bionet.biology.computational CSM ** bionet.prof-society.csm CYTONET bionet.cellbiol.cytonet DROSOPHILA bionet.drosophila EMBL-DATABANK bionet.molbio.embldatabank EMF-BIO bionet.emf-bio EMPLOYMENT bionet.jobs EMPLOYMENT-WANTED bionet.jobs.wanted FASEB ** bionet.prof-society.faseb G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR bionet.molbio.proteins.7tms_r GDB bionet.molbio.gdb GENBANK-BB bionet.molbio.genbank GENETIC-LINKAGE bionet.molbio.gene-linkage GLYCOSCI bionet.glycosci GRASSES-SCIENCE bionet.biology.grasses HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY bionet.molbio.hiv HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM bionet.molbio.genome-program IMMUNOLOGY bionet.immunology INFO-GCG bionet.software.gcg JOURNAL-NOTES bionet.journals.note METHODS-AND-REAGENTS bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts MICROBIOLOGY bionet.microbiology MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION bionet.molbio.evolution MOLECULAR-MODELLING bionet.molec-model MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS bionet.molbio.molluscs MYCOLOGY bionet.mycology NEUROSCIENCE bionet.neuroscience N2-FIXATION bionet.biology.n2-fixation PARASITOLOGY bionet.parasitology PHOTOSYNTHESIS bionet.photosynthesis PLANT-BIOLOGY bionet.plants POPULATION-BIOLOGY bionet.population-bio PROTEIN-ANALYSIS bionet.molbio.proteins PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY bionet.xtallography PROTISTA bionet.protista RAPD bionet.molbio.rapd SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** bionet.sci-resources STADEN bionet.software.staden STRUCTURAL-NMR bionet.structural-nmr TIBS ** bionet.journals.letters.tibs TROPICAL-BIOLOGY bionet.biology.tropical URODELES bionet.organisms.urodeles VIROLOGY bionet.virology WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY bionet.women-in-bio YEAST bionet.molbio.yeast ZBRAFISH bionet.organisms.zebrafish + full name is BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY ** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings are directed to a moderator (editor) who later forwards messages (possibly edited or condensed) to the newsgroup. List of BIOSCI Newsgroup Topics ------------------------------- MAILING LIST NAME TOPIC ----------------- ----- ACEDB-SOFT Discussions by users and developers of genome databases using the ACEDB software. AGEING Discussions about ageing research AGROFORESTRY Discussions about agroforestry research ARABIDOPSIS Newsgroup for the Arabidopsis Genome Project ASCB ** Announcements from The American Society for Cell Biology BIOFORUM Discussions about biological topics for which there is not yet a dedicated newsgroup BIOCAN Newsgroup for the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies (CFBS) BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION- THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Applications of information theory to biology; this group is not for general information or for discussion of theories in general. BIONAUTS Question/answer forum for help using electronic networks, locating e-mail addresses, etc. BIONEWS ** General announcements of widespread interest to biologists BIO-JOURNALS ** Tables of Contents of biological journals BIO-MATRIX Applications of computers to biological databases BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** Official announcements/information from the Biophysical Society. BIOPHYSICS Discussion of issues related to the science and profession of biophysics BIO-SOFTWARE Information on software for the biological sciences BIOTHERMOKINETICS Discussions about the kinetics, thermodynamics and control of biological processes at the cellular level BIO-WWW ** Announcements about new information resources in biology which can be accessed via electronic networked information retrieval software CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH Research discussions in cardiovascular biology CELEGANS Research discussions on the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes CELL-BIOLOGY Discussions about cell biology including cancer research at the cellular level CHLAMYDOMONAS Discussions about the biology of the green alga Chlamydomonas and related genera CHROMOSOMES Discussions about mapping and sequencing of eucaryote chromosomes COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Mathematical and computer applications in biology CSM ** Announcements from the Canadian Society of Microbiologists. CYTONET Discussions about research on the cytoskeleton, plasma membrane, and cell wall DROSOPHILA Discussions about biological research on Drosophila EMBL-DATABANK Messages to and from the EMBL database staff EMF-BIO Discussions about research on electromagnetic field interactions with biological systems EMPLOYMENT Job opportunities in biology (see BIOSCI FAQ *before* posting commercial job openings) EMPLOYMENT-WANTED Forum for posting resumes/CVs by individuals seeking employment in the biological sciences or in support of the biological sciences FASEB ** Announcements from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR Discussions about signal transducing receptors which interact with G-proteins GDB Messages to and from the Genome Data Bank staff GENBANK-BB Messages to and from the GenBank database staff GENETIC-LINKAGE Newsgroup for genetic linkage analysis GLYCOSCI Discussions about carbohydrate and glycoconjugate molecules. GRASSES-SCIENCE Discussions regarding grasses, especially cereal, forage, and turf species HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Discussions about the molecular biology of HIV HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM NIH-sponsored newsgroup on human genome issues IMMUNOLOGY Discussions about research in immunology INFO-GCG Discussions about the GCG sequence analysis software JOURNAL-NOTES Practical advice on dealing with professional journals METHODS-AND-REAGENTS Requests for information and lab reagents MICROBIOLOGY Discussions about research in microbiology MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Discussions about research in molecular evolution MOLECULAR-MODELLING Discussions about molecular modelling MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS Discussions about research on mollusc DNA MYCOLOGY Discussions about research on filamentous fungi NEUROSCIENCE Discussions about research in the neurosciences N2-FIXATION Discussion about biological nitrogen fixation PARASITOLOGY Discussions about research in parasitology PHOTOSYNTHESIS Discussions about photosynthesis research PLANT-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in plant biology POPULATION-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in population biology PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Discussions about research on proteins and messages for the PIR and SWISS-PROT databank staffs PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Discussion about crystallography of macromolecules and messages for the PDB staff PROTISTA Discussions about research on ciliates and other protists RAPD Discussions about Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** Information from/about scientific funding agencies STADEN Discussions between scientists using the Staden molecular sequence analysis software STRUCTURAL-NMR Discussions about the use of NMR for macromolecular structure determination TIBS ** "Letters to the Editor" of "Trends in Biochemical Sciences" TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in tropical biology URODELES Discussions about research in urodele amphibian biology VIROLOGY Discussions about research in virology WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY Discussions about issues concerning women biologists YEAST Discussions about the molecular biology and genetics of yeast ZBRAFISH Discussions about research using the model organism Zebrafish (Danio rerio) ** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings are directed to a moderator (editor) who later forwards messages (possibly edited or condensed) to the newsgroup. BIOSCI Newsgroup Discussion Leaders ----------------------------------- Most scientific specialty newsgroups (except for a few created several years ago) have individuals who are responsible for stimulating discussion on the newsgroup. General purpose forums such as METHODS-AND-REAGENTS do not have discussion leaders. If a group that you are interested in does not seem to have much activity recently, please contact the discussion leader and ask why. NEWSGROUP NAME Discussion Leader and their e-mail address -------------- ------------------------------------------ ACEDB-SOFT Mike Cherry (cherry@genome.stanford.edu) AGEING Sydney Shall (bafa1@central.sussex.ac.uk) AGROFORESTRY Gerry Lawson (F_GJL@vaxa.nerc-bush.ac.uk) ARABIDOPSIS Chris Somerville (21847CRS@msu.edu) ASCB ** Vincent Shan (moderator@faseb.org) BIOCAN Leon Browder (browder@acs.ucalgary.ca) BIOFORUM None BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION- THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Tom Schneider (toms@ncifcrf.gov) BIONAUTS Rob Harper (harper@convex.csc.fi) BIONEWS ** David Kristofferson (biosci-help@net.bio.net) BIO-JOURNALS ** David Kristofferson (biosci-help@net.bio.net) BIO-MATRIX Dan Davison (davison@uh.edu) BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** David Kristofferson (biosci-help@net.bio.net) BIOPHYSICS Carol Gross (cgross@molbio.cbs.umn.edu) BIO-SOFTWARE None BIOTHERMOKINETICS John Woods (eanv20@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk) BIO-WWW ** Reinhard Doelz (bio-www@comp.bioz.unibas.ch) CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH Zhandong Zhou (zhandong@macc.wisc.edu) CELEGANS William Morgan (wmorgan@acs.wooster.edu) CELL-BIOLOGY Ola Myklebost (ola.myklebost@dnr.uio.no) CHLAMYDOMONAS Elizabeth H. Harris (chlamy@acpub.duke.edu) and Antonio R. Franco (bf1rodri@cc.uco.es) CHROMOSOMES Bruce Roe (broe@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu) and Greg Lennon (greg@mendel.llnl.gov) COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Phil J. Curtiss (curtiss@umiacs.umd.edu) CSM ** Max Firtel and John Nash (csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca) CYTONET Nicholas C. Carpita (carpita@btny.purdue.edu) DROSOPHILA Michael Ashburner (m.ashburner@gen.cam.ac.uk) EMBL-DATABANK None (datalib@embl-heidelberg.de) EMF-BIO Allan H. Frey (afrey@uunet.uu.net) EMPLOYMENT None EMPLOYMENT-WANTED None FASEB ** Vincent Shan (moderator@faseb.org) G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR Lee F. Kolakowski, Jr. (lfk@receptor.mgh.harvard.edu) GDB Kerryn Brandt (kab@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu) GENBANK-BB Dennis Benson (benson@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) GENETIC-LINKAGE Steve Bryant (s_bryant@icrf.ac.uk) GLYCOSCI Iain Wilson (iwilson@molbiol.ox.ac.uk) and Barry Hardy (bhardy@convex.ox.ac.uk) GRASSES-SCIENCE Allen Wright (adwright@iastate.edu) HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Mika Salminen (msalminen@nphi.fi) HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM Jane Peterson (jp2@cu.nih.gov) IMMUNOLOGY Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke@qucdn.queensu.ca) INFO-GCG John Cargill (ontogen@nic.cerf.net) JOURNAL-NOTES Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke@qucdn.queensu.ca) METHODS-AND-REAGENTS None MICROBIOLOGY Martin Latterich (mdhouse@mendel.berkeley.edu) MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Dan Davison (davison@uh.edu) MOLECULAR-MODELLING Philippe Stas (philstas@vub.ac.be) MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS Elizabeth Grace Boulding (boulding@uoguelph.ca) MYCOLOGY Tom Adams (tom@bio.tamu.edu) Leland Ellis (leland@straylight.tamu.edu) Greg May (gsmay@bcm.tmc.edu) NEUROSCIENCE Vincent A Mazzarella (vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) James L. Olds (olds@bernard.ninds.nih.gov) N2-FIXATION Eng-Leong Foo (eng-leong_foo_mircen-ki%micforum@mica.mic.ki.se) PARASITOLOGY Daniel R. Brooks, Sherwin S. Desser and Henry Hong (parasite@zoo.toronto.edu) PHOTOSYNTHESIS Johnathan Marder (marder@agri.huji.ac.il) PLANT-BIOLOGY Tony Travis (ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk) POPULATION-BIOLOGY None PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Amos Bairoch (bairoch@cmu.unige.ch) and John Garavelli (garavelli@nbrf.georgetown.edu) PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Morten Kjeldgaard (morten@oase.kemi.aau.dk) PROTISTA Marsha Altschule (marsha.i.altschuler@williams.edu) and Mark Farmer (farmer@emlab.zoo.uga.edu) RAPD James Farmer (farmerj@yvax.byu.edu) SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** David Kristofferson (biosci-help@net.bio.net) STADEN Tim Littlejohn (tim@bch.umontreal.ca) STRUCTURAL-NMR C. S. Raman (raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu) TIBS ** Jo McEntyre (TIBS@elsevier.co.uk) and David Kristofferson (biosci-help@net.bio.net) TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Matti Nummelin (mnummelin@cc.helsinki.fi) URODELES Susan Duhon (duhon@ucs.indiana.edu) and Anthony Mescher (mescher@ucs.indiana.edu) VIROLOGY Robert Coelen (robert@arbo.microbiol.uwa.oz.au) WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY Cassandra Smith (cls@buenga.bu.edu) YEAST Francis Ouellette (francis@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) ZBRAFISH Richard Vogt (vogt@biol.scarolina.edu) and Una Smith (smith-una@yale.edu) ** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated. Participating in BIOSCI Using USENET News Software -------------------------------------------------- Users who have access to USENET news software and the bionet USENET groups can participate immediately, i.e., they do not need to "subscribe" to anything. They can read and reply to messages using their local news software (e.g., "nn" or "rn") and post new messages of their own. Users will have to consult their local systems managers for help in using news software. There are many different programs available and the BIOSCI staff can not provide training in news software use. Fortunately, most news software is fairly simple to use and can be learned quickly. When posting new messages, USENET users should be sure to set the message "distribution" to "world" or "bionet" or else your message may not be distributed beyond your local computer. In most cases, messages are posted directly to the newsgroups without editorial intervention. Some groups (indicated in the lists above) are "moderated," however. This means that postings to these newsgroups will be sent to the newsgroup moderator who will decide whether or not the message is suitable for posting to the newsgroup in question. Participating in BIOSCI by E-mail --------------------------------- PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO USENET NEWS YOU DO NOT NEED AN E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION!! Simply read and post to the newsgroups in the "bionet" newsgroup hierarchy using your USENET news software. E-mail Subscription Requests and other Information -------------------------------------------------- For users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries, e-mail subscription and cancellation requests are handled automatically by an e-mail server, although personal assistance is also available via the biosci-help@net.bio.net address. Once your e-mail address is added to a subscription list, mail will be sent to your address automatically each time someone posts a message. This will continue until you remove your address from the subscription list. You should first send the lists command to the address biosci-server@net.bio.net to obtain a listing of all current BIOSCI mailing lists. You may leave your message Subject: line blank in any message that is sent to the server (text on the Subject: line is *not* processed). 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From owner-csm@net.bio.net Fri Feb 03 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news.cs.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: CSM Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: CSM FAQ list (monthly posting Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 18:24:05 EST Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 306 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <9502032324.AA15897@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca [Moderator's note: This is a regularly posted message sent near the beginning of each month. My apologies if you have received this twice, but NRC has been having BOTH smtp mail AND News problems - JN] ********************************************************************* Frequently Asked Questions list (FAQ) and subscription information for bionet.prof-society.csm. ********************************************************************* Welcome to the bionet.prof-society.csm newsgroup / CSM mailing list, representing the "Canadian Society of Microbiologists". This newsgroup (and accompanying mailing list) was set up after discussions arising from the 1994 Annual General Meeting. Please bring this facility to the attention of CSM members, colleagues, graduate students and other interested parties who could benefit from it. BIOSCI/bionet operates on the "USE IT OR LOSE" principle. Therefore, CSM members are encouraged to make full use of this facility to conduct CSM-related activities. Posts could include (but are not limited to) discussions or opinions on CSM policies; announcements of meetings, events or seminars of interest to CSM members (even regional posts); job postings for microbiologists in non-profit Canadian institutions; strain requests; or even address requests. Errors, omissions and information requests to: nash@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca (John Nash). Last modified: 1 Feb 95. ********************************************************************* Q: What's a FAQ? A: A FAQ (short for "Frequently Asked Questions") list is the traditional way that information about newsgroups (and other Internet things) is disseminated "on the net". This document is a FAQ. Q: What's in this FAQ? A: This FAQ contains reams of useful information on this newsgroup, including instructions on how to: i) subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the mailing list, ii) read the newsgroup from a central source instead of reading dozens of email messages, iii) post or reply to messages on the newsgroup or mailing list, iv) search newsgroup archives for past posts. Q: What is BIOSCI/bionet? A: The newsgroup/mailing list is part of BIOSCI (also known as "bionet"). The BIOSCI newsgroup network was developed to allow easy worldwide communications between biological scientists who work on a variety of computer networks. BIOSCI is supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and National Institutes of Health in the U.S.A. and by the Science and Engineering Research Council Daresbury Laboratory in the United Kingdom. BIOSCI services are available to users free of charge. BIOSCI administers DOZENS of newsgroups of various biological subjects from proteins to software, from immunology to the Genome Project. Of particular note to CSM members, are the following newsgroups: bionet.microbiology, bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, bionet.glycosci, and bionet.immunology, as well as newsgroups on Genbank and EMBL. Along with this FAQ, a general BIOSCI information sheet will be posted on the first of each month to assist you in using the network. You may wish to save these messages for future reference. Q: What is CSM? A: The Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) seeks to advance microbiology in all aspects and to facilitate the interchange of ideas between microbiologists. The society is divided into eight sections (Environmental Microbiology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Infections and Immunity, Microbial Physiology, Morphology and Structure, Virology, Applied Microbiology, and Veterinary Microbiology). 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ALWAYS be certain that you examine the address on your messages before you send them!!! Once a message is sent there is no way to cancel it or bring it back once the moderators pass it on to the newsgroup and mailing list!!! Some non-Internet compliant mail systems may attempt to send replies to our error-trapping address called BIOSCI-REQUEST. If yours does this, please be sure to readdress your message to csm@net.bio.net or csm@daresbury.ac.uk if you want to send it to the newsgroup. How to look at archives of the list: ------------------------------------ Archives for CSM/bionet.prof-society.csm are kept in the anonymous FTP account at net.bio.net [134.172.2.69]. Look in the directory pub/BIOSCI/CSM for posting archives. Each file is assigned a date such as 9312 for December 1993. Please note that ours is a UNIX system and all file and directory names are case-sensitive, i.e., upper case file names are different from lower case names. You can also access these same files via Gopher if you start a gopher session using net.bio.net as your gopher server. Gopher also allows you to view the individual messages within each monthly archive file. The files are in the CSM directory. Postings to bionet.prof-society.csm are also WAIS indexed and can be searched via either gopher or WAIS at our site. In gopher the option at net.bio.net is "Search Bionet USENET Articles" and in WAIS one should use the WAIS source biosci.src. This is a WAIS index of all BIOSCI/bionet messages including this newsgroup. Please see the BIOSCI FAQ for details. The FAQ can be requested from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Finally, you can also access the archives via WWW/Mosaic. The URL is gopher://net.bio.net/. Once again, if you have any administrative questions that require personal assistance, please address them to biosci-help@net.bio.net in the U.S. or biosci@daresbury.ac.uk in the UK. -- Dr. John Nash // Dr. Max Firtel (moderators) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada bears no responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup. From owner-csm@net.bio.net Mon Feb 06 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!adam.cc.sunysb.edu!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: "Dr. I.L. Stevenson" Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: Notice for CSM Members Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:29:51 -0500 (EST) Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 45 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca SURVEY OF CANADIAN EXPERTISE IN SYSTEMATICS Environment Canada is charged with ensuring that the people of Canada are protected from risks associated with the addition of potential hazards to our land, water, and atmosphere. Current regulations require prior notification and evaluation for environmental effects of new biotechnological products destined for importation, manufacture, and introduction into the environment. Where microorganisms form all or part of this product, detailed identification and substantiating information is called for. In instances where the taxonomic designation is in doubt, the Department would like to be able to refer the submitter to an independent, recognized authority for the authentication of the taxonomic designation of the organism(s). Other Canadian regulatory departments also require substantiated identifications and frequently ask for additional authentication of organisms falling under their jurisdictions. Part of the current study is to identify expert systematists in Canada that the regulators can turn to for definitive identifications of organisms. It is expected that the collated data will be useful for Societies to build upon in order to strengthen the discipline of systematics. Anyone in Canada currently involved in systematic research - the science of describing, naming, and classifying all organisms - is urged to contact the undersigned for inclusion in this information source. For more information please contact: Dr. Ian L. Stevenson Tel 613 798 1843 5-253 Botanica Private Fax 613 798 1843 OTTAWA ON K1Y 4P8 Email scotty@achilles.net -- Dr. John Nash // Dr. Max Firtel (moderators) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada bears no responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup. From owner-csm@net.bio.net Sun Feb 12 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: medzon@julian.uwo.ca (Ted Medzon) Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: Federal Budget. Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:02:26 -0600 Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 128 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <9502102259.AA14759@julian.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca [Moderator's note: My news-server wouldn't post this message as we received it from Dr. Medzon, so I have re-formatted it to remove the ">" marks (which represent quoted text) which preceded every line, and to show the end of included text. Most news-servers will not post articles with more quoted text than message, thus it got rejected by the server. It may seem trivial to you, but as a moderator it is important to me that I document where I have edited messages to avoid the appearance of censorship. - JN] Can we post this? Ted Medzon >---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 7 Feb 1995 13:01:26 -0800 From: Leon W. Browder To: biocan@net.bio.net Subject: Federal Granting Council Budgets Dear Colleagues, The following statement appeared in an article in the Feb. 1 issue of The Ottawa Citizen: "Canadians are about to witness an appalling 10-15 per cent cut in the budgets of the federal granting councils (Good Management Impossible Without National Strategy). The councils are the cornerstones of Canada's strategy for economic recovery. In its December 1994 report, Confronting Canada's Deficit Crisis, The Finance Committee of the House of Commons recommended to Government no reductions in spending for the three granting councils." It is imperative that the academic research community stress to Government that support for the councils is an investment in Canada's economic future, not an expenditure that contributes to the deficit. I implore all of you to contact your MP, Dr. Jon Gerrard (Secretary of State [Science, Research and Development]), Paul Martin (Minister of Finance), and Prime Minister Jean Chretien to make this point. Representatives of CFBS will be meeting with Dr. Gerrard, a group of MPs with universities in their ridings, the granting councils, and other government officials next week to make this pitch. Your letters would help us to get this point across, particularly if you were to contact your MP. They need to understand how a cut in granting council budgets will affect their ridings and Canada's ability to thrive in the knowledge-based economy. Another important policy item is the impending abolition of transfer payments, which threatens to erode substantially the support for research infrastructure CFBS will be meeting with an official in Lloyd Axworthy's department in an attempt to make this point. Please try to get your MP to understand that indirect costs (costs related to provision of research space and facilities, libraries, computing facilities, support services, etc.) are a federal responsibility. We support the proposals of AUCC and CAUT to allocate at least $500 of the current EPF funds for research infrastructure costs. There is a great deal at stake here. Please help if you can. Sincerely, Leon Browder President, CFBS Leon W. Browder, Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Phone: (403) 220-6787 email: browder@acs.ucalgary.ca >---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 7 Feb 1995 15:20:39 -0800 From: Leon W. Browder To: biocan@net.bio.net Subject: FAX numbers for letter writing campaign I have been asked to provide FAX numbers of key members of cabinet for your use in sending letters in support of funding for granting agencies and infrastructure support. The following is a list of key individuals. You may address your letter to them at The House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 (FAX numbers in parentheses): The Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien, Prime Minister (613-941-6900) The Hon. John Manley, Minister of Industry (613-992-0302) The Hon. Diane Marleau, Minister of Health (613-952-1154) The Hon. Jon Gerrard, Secretary of State (Science, Research and Development) (613-990-4056) The Hon. Marcel Masse, President of the Privy Council (613-943-1855) The Hon. Paul Martin, Minister of Finance (613-995-5176) The Hon. Herb Grey, Solicitor-General of Canada (613-995-2441) The Hon. Andre Ouellet, Minister of Foreign Affairs (613-996-3443) The Hon. Brian Tobin, Minister of Fisheries (613-990-7292) The Hon. Sheila Copps, Minister of the Environment and Deputy Prime Minister (613-953-3457) The Hon. Sergio Marchi, Minister of Immigration (613-953-4930) The Hon. Art Eggleton, President of the Treasury Board (613-990-2806) The Hon. Anne McLellan, Minister of Natural Resources (613-996-4516) The Hon. Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Human Resource Development (819-994-0448) Leon W. Browder, Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Phone: (403) 220-6787 email: browder@acs.ucalgary.ca >========= end of included text =========================================== Copyright E.L.Medzon. All rights reserved. E.L.(Ted) Medzon, Dept.of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C1. Tel.519-661-3429; Fax.519-661-3499; Email.medzon@julian.uwo.ca -- Dr. John Nash // Dr. Max Firtel (moderators) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada bears no responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup. From owner-csm@net.bio.net Fri Feb 17 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!adam.cc.sunysb.edu!news.nysernet.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: Pierre_Talbot@iaf.UQUEBEC.CA (Pierre Talbot) Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS/BOURSES POST-DOCTORALES Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 17:24:59 EST Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 91 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <9501187931.AA793157099@iaf.UQUEBEC.CA> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS/BOURSES POST-DOCTORALES J. Louis Levesque et/and BioChem Pharma The Armand-Frappier Foundation is offering two post-doctoral fellowships of $25 000 each for recent Ph.D. graduates to work with one of the professors of the Armand-Frappier Institute. Are eligible to apply candidates who obtained a Ph.D. degree within the last five years, are citizens or permanent residents of Canada and have arranged for post-doctoral studies at the Armand-Frappier Institute, an institute for higher education and health sciences research in applied and environmental microbiology, epidemiology, immunology, and virology that is part of the University of Quebec network and is located in Laval, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Please send, before APRIL 15, 1995, a curriculum vitae including a list of publications and communications, a summary of the doctoral thesis, an official copy of the academic record at the undergraduate and graduate levels, two letters of recommendation, one of them from the thesis supervisor, that comment on research abilities, a detailed summary of the proposed research project and of anticipated results and a letter from one of the three Research Centres of the Armand-Frappier Institute that comment on the pertinence of the candidate's training in relation to the proposed research project and the scientific priorities of the Institute. La Fondation Armand-Frappier offre deux bourses post-doctorales de 25 000 $ chacune permettant aux recents titulaires de doctorat d'accroitre leur experience en effectuant un stage de recherche specialise a l'Institut Armand- Frappier. Sont eligibles a ces bourses les personnes qui ont obtenu un doctorat dans les dernieres cinq annees, qui sont citoyens ou resident permanents du Canada et qui desirent entreprendre des etudes post-doctorales a l'Institut Armand-Frappier, un institut d'enseignement superieur et de recherche dans les domaines de l'epidemiologie, l'immunologie, la microbiologie appliquee et environnementale et la virologie, et qui est localise a Laval, en banlieu de Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Veuillez envoyez un curriculum vitae incluant une liste des publications et communications, un resume de la these de doctorat, une copie officielle du dossier universitaire complet (incluant releves de notes des 1er, 2e et 3e cycles), deux lettres de recommandation dont l'une du directeur de these, pouvant temoigner des aptitudes a la recherche, un expose detaile du projet de recherche propose et des resultats anticipes et une lettre d'un des trois directeurs de centre de recherche de l'Institut Armand-Frappier demontrant la pertinence de la formation du candidat par rapport a la nature du projet a realiser dans le cadre du devis scientifique de l'Institut. Dr Michel Trudel President, Comite d'attribution des bourses postdoctorales Institut Armand-Frappier C.P. 100, succ. Laval-des-Rapides Laval (Quebec) H7N 4Z3 Tel: (514) 687-5010 ext./poste 4319 Fax: (514) 686-5501 SPECIFIC REQUEST/DEMANDE SPECIFIQUE: Without prejudice to other professors of the Armand-Frappier, the following professor is looking for a candidate with training in molecular immunology for a project designed to characterize coronavirus-myelin cross-reactive T cell epitopes in multiple sclerosis. Sans prejudice aux autres professeurs de l'Institut Armand-Frappier, le professeur suivant est a la recherche d'un candidat avec une formation en immunologie moleculaire pour se joindre a un projet visant a caracteriser des epitopes T croiss entre le coronavirus et la myeline dans la sclerose en plaques. Pierre Talbot Virology Research Center/Centre de recherche en virologie Neuroimmunovirology Laboratory/Laboratoire de neuroimmunovirologie University of Quebec/Universite du Quebec Institut Armand-Frappier 531 boulevard des Prairies Laval, Quebec CANADA H7N 4Z3 Tel.: (514) 687-5010 extension/poste 4406 Fax: (514) 686-5531 (or/ou 5626) E-mail/Courrier electronique: Pierre_Talbot@iaf.uquebec.ca -- Dr. John Nash // Dr. Max Firtel (moderators) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada bears no responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup.