From owner-csm@net.bio.net Sun Mar 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: csm@nrcbcs.bio.nrc.ca Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: How to get the FAQs (monthly posting) Date: 11 Mar 1996 18:42:29 GMT Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 51 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <4i1s6l$40a@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Last modified: Jan 01, 1996 Welcome to the monthly posting on how to get the Frequently Asked Questions lists (FAQs) for the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroup (bionet.prof-society.csm) and the accompanying mailing list (CSM) for the Canadian Society of Microbiologists. How to get the FAQs by: World Wide Web: -------------- Point your browser to: http://www.nrc.ca/~nash/csm.html. Click on the relevant document to view it, and save it from within your browser. Anonymous ftp: ------------- Use an "ftp program" to connect to nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca. Such programs are available on most computer platforms. Upon a successful connection, you will be prompted for a username. Use "anonymous" (without quotes). You will then be prompted for a password. Use your email address, e.g. user@site.domain.ca. Move to the directory holding the CSM documents by issuing: cd pub/nash Download the relevant document to your account by typing (without quotes): "get csm.faq" (to get the CSM FAQ list) "get bionet.faq" (to get the BIOSCI/bionet FAQ list) "get bionet.newsgroups" (to get the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups FAQ). Exit the program by typing: quit Email: ----- Send an email to csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca, and I'll send you the appropriate document. -- Dr. John Nash (moderator) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada disclaims responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup. From owner-csm@net.bio.net Sun Mar 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: BOB MCLEAN Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: Faculty position in Louisiana Date: 11 Mar 1996 17:20:34 GMT Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 24 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <01I1JQKKINB693595K@swt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca [Again, apologies for my tardiness due to illness. Bob requested posting on 23 Feb - jhn] There is a nine month tenure track position available in the Biological Sciences department at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. They are looking for a Ph.D. in Microbiology to teach General Microbiology to majors and non majors and a senior/graduate level course in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Details for this position can be obtained by contacting: Dr. Marilyn B. Kilgen, Head Department of Biological Sciences P.O. Box 2021 Nicholls State University Thibodaux, LA 70310 (504)448-4700 Email: biol-mbk@nich-nsunet.nich.edu Thibodaux is approximately 60 miles from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. -- Dr. John Nash (moderator) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada disclaims responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup. From owner-csm@net.bio.net Sun Mar 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI Fundraising Update! Date: 11 Mar 1996 18:31:52 GMT Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 167 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <199603011000.CAA02081@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca [ A note from John Nash: This is a message from our sponsors, who in turn have their sponsors. They donated and run the mailing list and newsgroup for CSM for FREE and with NO obligations, as a service to the scientific community. Their NIH grant is ending and BIOSCI has to explore avenues for funding, just like the rest of us. Please read this - don't discard it as junk mail! This is *not* a US-only concern, and many of you associated with small companies may wish to consider supporting BIOSCI - jhn] A note from BIOSCI's Administrator: ---------------------------------- I'm interrupting the usual monthly posting of the BIOSCI miniFAQ to bring you up to date on BIOSCI fundraising progress, a topic of concern to your future use of this resource. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this message carefully. Last year we announced that BIOSCI was going to adopt the U.S. Public Broadcasting System model to fund its operations after our DOE/NSF grant runs out later this year. Unlike PBS, we are not soliciting contributions from users; we are only selling ads on our Web pages solely to cover our operating costs. Our goal is to seek sponsorships until we build up an operating reserve of about $100,000 and then cease further promotions until we need to build the reserve back up. (The accountants among our readership will be familiar with the problem of deferred revenue which we can not safely utilize until ads have been displayed for a period of time.) We have three sponsors to date with a couple more pending. The process is time-consuming, however, and we need your help as explained further below. Our operating costs consist of our network connection, phone lines, hardware maintenance (we hope to have new and faster hardware soon!), plus 0.7 FTE of salaries covering UNIX systems admin, technical support, quality assurance, i.e., testing, of our system, and administrative costs (such as the time it takes to actually find/write/call potential sponsors and raise money!). Although the BIOSCI staff does get compensated for a portion of the work that they do, this project has always received a lot of free after-hours and "vacation" time labor, so we hope that no one will begrudge the time that we do charge to the project to serve you. All of the three part-time staff members, Dave Mack, Julie Lawrence, and myself, have full time day jobs and families in addition to working hard to keep this service running for all of you. Julie and Dave Mack are subcontractors for BIOSCI; my time that is charged to the project defrays a portion of my regular salary instead of adding to my income. Besides having to relocate the project, we were very busy this last year building new infrastructure such as our WWW hypermail interface to the system. This was released last December along with scores of WAIS indices for the newsgroups. Virtually everything is complete, although we do continue to find and fix bugs (many through your helpful feedback!). We are still having some problems with our WAIS indexing. The archives continue to grow rapidly. We are running over 100 indexes now versus three previously and any systems crashes cause greater havoc with the indexing than before! We are still working to fix this as fast as our resources permit and appreciate your patience, but we have been able to automate a lot of the infrastructure to reduce labor as compared to past requirements. We have also implemented new software to make moderation of BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups much easier and combat the growing problem of Internet junk mail and USENET "spamming." About 20% of our groups are now moderated, many of them by the BIOSCI staff! This, for example, made a major difference last year in the quality of content in our EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs.offered newsgroup which many commercial concerns and recruiting firms are using **without charge** to recruit candidates for positions in the biological sciences. We are also now in a position to have sponsors for individual newsgroups as you will have noticed if you have visited http://www.bio.net/ and clicked on "Access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups" recently. So, how can you help?? ---------------------- As noted above it can take a lot of time to contact potential sponsors if I have to do it all myself. Our request is quite simple. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can now post or reply to messages via your Web browser. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. Our hope is to quickly raise several large corporate/institutional sponsors on our heavily-used WWW locations (some stats appended below), and then end this sponsorship campaign so that our resources can continue to be used for service provision, not fundraising. Many of our specialty newsgroup WWW archives are still used by small communities of scientists (and they haven't been heavily promoted yet). While these may be valuable niche markets to some advertisers, it will generate more labor and overhead having to find these sponsors, fairly price the locations, and deal with lots of smaller sponsorships than fewer mid-to large sponsors. We are striving to keep our operation as lean and efficient as possible since we are not trying to make careers out of running BIOSCI. We are trying if at all possible to avoid the administrative overhead entailed with processing lots of small payments to reach our fundraising goals. I'd like to thank all of you for your help in advance. In helping us, you are also helping yourselves, not only in keeping this resource available for all of the both large and small research communities that we serve, but also by alleviating the need for us to go back and compete with researchers for tight grant dollars! We promised NSF when we were awarded the BIOSCI grant that we would carry out this mission to make the service self-supporting. With your help, we will succeed in continuing BIOSCI's work into its second decade. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net A list of our prime WWW sponsorship locations follow. Statistics are for the four week period from 22 Jan. - 18 Feb. 1996 and usage continues to grow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The overall BIOSCI WWW pages are currently visited by users from close to 5000 unique computer hosts per week. Web servers only log the Internet computer/host name and frequently more than one individual can connect to us from a particular host. Main home page, http://www.bio.net, visited recently by about 2100 unique hosts per week Main Newsgroups archives page, http://www.bio.net/archives.html, visited recently by about 1200 Unique hosts per week BIO-JOURNALS archive page, http://www.bio.net/BIO-JOURNALS.html, visited recently by about 1000 unique hosts per week. EMPLOYMENT archive pages: http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/EMPLOYMENT/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 600 unique hosts per week. Address database search page, http://www.bio.net/addrsearch.html, visited recently by about 450 unique hosts per week. Methods newsgroup archive pages, http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/METHDS- REAGNTS/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 350 unique hosts per week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. John Nash (moderator) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada disclaims responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup. From owner-csm@net.bio.net Sun Mar 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!news-relay.us.dell.com!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: rathbun@sedona.net (Ann Rathbun) Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: Microbiologist position Date: 11 Mar 1996 17:17:12 GMT Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 137 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <199602201904.MAA27361@merlin.sedona.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca [This was first submitted for posting on 20th Feb. It was delayed until 1 Mar due to my absence at a meeting, and until today by my recent illness. I'm sorry this is so late. - jhn] Rathbun, Sapir & Associates Executive Search Research Investigator, Microbiology We are seeking a Ph.D. scientist with a minimum of 2 years post doctorate to supervise complex development projects in formulation of infection control products. This person must be a hands-on scientist with a strong bacterial background. This position has several research associates reporting to it; responsibilities will includes both bench work and a very proactive role dealing with other depts [Clinical Research, Regulatory, Sales & Marketing] and with other sites of this Fortune 500 company. The company is placing a strong emphasis on wound care treatment along with the already established products in infection control for e.g., the OR, etc. Research will include [and not restricted to] working with resistant bacteria, bacterial adherents, developing in vivo and in vitro test methodologies, formulations, etc. He/she will design and implement new concepts for testing and evaluation of products, will supervise microbiology testing and will improve the efficiency of test methods. Successful candidates will have exceptionally strong communication skills as he/she will work with Sales & Marketing to develop clearly written technical notices, and will work with Regulatory on FDA filings and with Clinical Affairs to assist in the design of appropriate clinical trials. Desired Profile: · Ph.D., Microbiology with 2 years post-doctoral experience or MS with strong bacterial background and 5+ years in a Microbiology function. · Strong research/clinical/industrial experience in bacteriology, such as identification of bacteria, sensitivity testing, methods development, challenge testing. · Enthusiastic scientist who would relish an opportunity to be an expert in skin microbiology. · Excellent presentation and communication skills and a person who enjoys working and works well with people from a variety of departmental perspectives. This is an opportunity to become an expert in skin microbiology, and to continue with scientific publication and presentations. The group has excellent visibility and the opportunity to make a significant impact of the company’s product line. Our client is a top pharmaceutical company with a strong portfolio; they will handle customary and usual relocation and have an excellent benefit package. If you have an interest in this or other opportunities, please mail or FAX your CV/resume to RS&A to the attention of Ann G. Rathbun, Managing Director. All correspondence is held in strict confidence. Please Post P.O. Box 2337 Sedona, AZ 86339-2337 * USA * (520) 284-3360 Office (520)284-3361 FAX E-mail: rathbun@ sedona.net Rathbun, Sapir & Associates Executive Search Research Investigator, Microbiology We are seeking a Ph.D. scientist with a minimum of 2 years post doctorate to supervise complex development projects in formulation of infection control products. This person must be a hands-on scientist with a strong bacterial background. This position has several research associates reporting to it; responsibilities will includes both bench work and a very proactive role dealing with other depts [Clinical Research, Regulatory, Sales & Marketing] and with other sites of this Fortune 500 company. The company is placing a strong emphasis on wound care treatment along with the already established products in infection control for e.g., the OR, etc. Research will include [and not restricted to] working with resistant bacteria, bacterial adherents, developing in vivo and in vitro test methodologies, formulations, etc. He/she will design and implement new concepts for testing and evaluation of products, will supervise microbiology testing and will improve the efficiency of test methods. Successful candidates will have exceptionally strong communication skills as he/she will work with Sales & Marketing to develop clearly written technical notices, and will work with Regulatory on FDA filings and with Clinical Affairs to assist in the design of appropriate clinical trials. Desired Profile: · Ph.D., Microbiology with 2 years post-doctoral experience or MS with strong bacterial background and 5+ years in a Microbiology function. · Strong research/clinical/industrial experience in bacteriology, such as identification of bacteria, sensitivity testing, methods development, challenge testing. · Enthusiastic scientist who would relish an opportunity to be an expert in skin microbiology. · Excellent presentation and communication skills and a person who enjoys working and works well with people from a variety of departmental perspectives. This is an opportunity to become an expert in skin microbiology, and to continue with scientific publication and presentations. The group has excellent visibility and the opportunity to make a significant impact of the company’s product line. Our client is a top pharmaceutical company with a strong portfolio; they will handle customary and usual relocation and have an excellent benefit package. If you have an interest in this or other opportunities, please mail or FAX your CV/resume to RS&A to the attention of Ann G. Rathbun, Managing Director. All correspondence is held in strict confidence. Please Post P.O. Box 2337 Sedona, AZ 86339-2337 * USA * (520) 284-3360 Office (520)284-3361 FAX E-mail: rathbun@ sedona.net -- Dr. John Nash (moderator) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada disclaims responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup. From owner-csm@net.bio.net Sun Mar 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca (CSM) Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: CSM Newsgroup/Mailing list Administrivia Date: 11 Mar 1996 19:29:16 GMT Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 77 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <11.Mar.96-140055@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca CSM Newsgroup/Mailing list Administrivia ---------------------------------------- Sorry to waste your time with newsgroup administrivia, but I would like some input, please. First of all, let me apologise for the poor service in the last four to five weeks. A thrice-recurring, non-trivial bout of pneumonia has hampered my usual prompt, enthusiastic service. The temporary demise of the NRC NNTP server - which is how I send the news/email to you - didn't help. Now that I am back, and the backlog of postings has been cleared, I have to bring up an administrative matter proposed by the powers that run us - not CSM, but BIONET. Bottom line: ----------- We want to change the way that moderators handle posts. The new way will be quicker and less complicated for moderators and should be silent for most users. The exception is for those who insist on sending email/posts as Microsoft Word or Word Perfect files instead as raw text. Explanation: ----------- As a reaction to many of the newsgroups being swamped by "spam", and the increase in workload to moderators, BIOSCI/bionet (which runs the newsgroup and mailing list) have initiated an automated moderation process. They have invited me to use their system. Currently, moderators have to manually approve messages to newsgroups by saving messages as text files, hand-editing out email headers, substituting appropriate newsgroup ones, and then posting the approved message to a news-server running at the local site (i.e. we rely on NRC's NNTP server being up as well as the BIOSCI machinery, to run our list). This is somewhat Unix-dependent. The new system would involve pressing a reject or accept button, and the post would either hit the bit-bucket or be passed on to BIOSCI for posting. This new system would NOT require a Unix system and some Unix knowledge. Disadvantages to you: -------------------- - Badly formatted messages wouldn't necessarily be re-formatted by your friendly moderator. Neither would binary files, like Word or WordPerfect files or some MIMI enclosures. - Rejected messages would not necessarily be bounced back to senders with an explanation (I don't do that with spam anyway, I just dump it). Advantages to you: ----------------- - Occasionally NRC's newserver croaks and the message doesn't go out. However, to be fair, BIOSCI's machinery clogs too. - Less work for me, not that I mind what I am doing now - it's not time-consuming at all. However, when I'm reaching a work deadline, sick etc., etc., things do get delayed if I have to manually hand-edit a lot of messages. - My successor would be easier to train. - Slightly quicker response times. What do you have to do: ---------------------- So if you're ambivalent about the change, just ignore this message. If you have a strong opinion either way, express it and I'll bow to a majority. Otherwise, I'll go ahead with the new BIOSCI scheme. Your friendly moderator, John -- Dr. John Nash (moderator) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada disclaims responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup. From owner-csm@net.bio.net Sun Mar 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!nrcnet0.nrc.ca!csm From: dmsander@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (David M. Sander) Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.csm Subject: Do we have your Virology Site? Date: 11 Mar 1996 18:35:44 GMT Organization: National Research Council, Canada Lines: 109 Approved: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Distribution: world Message-ID: <4hlk0s$dfc@rs10.tcs.tulane.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Originator: csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca [Moderator's note: I usually post CSM information & discussions, employment opportunities available to Canadian microbiologists and meeting information useful to Canadian microbiologists. Do you want to continue receiving this sort of information? - jhn ] The Garry Lab is planning an update of our popular WWW site, "All the Virology on the WWW": http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html If you manage a web site that is of interest to virologists and microbiologists, or fits into our table of contents below) then we should list your site! To add your URL, just fill out the site submission form on the following page: http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavwebadd.html Thanks again for your support! David +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Table of Contents Institutional Virology Servers Virology Departments, and Research Institutes Virology Labs within Institutions Anti-Viral Drug Resources Vaccine and Vaccine Development Sites General Virology Resources and Databases Infectious Disease Resources Virological LaboratoryTechniques Viral Electron Micrographs & Macromolecular Images Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Viruses Viral Genome Sequence Data Graduate Programs in Virology On-Line Virology Courses and Tutorials Institutional Microbiology Servers Plant Virus Servers and Information Specific Virus Servers and Information Adenoviruses Animal Viruses - Bovine, Equine, etc. Arboviruses - Insect Viruses, Flockhouse Astroviruses - Gastroenteritis Bunyaviridae - Hantavirus Caliciviridae Coronaviridae Filoviridae - Ebola Herpesviridae -- Herpesviruses Cytomegalovirus - CMV Epstein Barr Virus - EBV Norwalk Viruses - Gastroenteritis Viruses Astroviridae Caliciviridae Orthomyxoviridae - Influenza Viruses Paramyxoviridae Paramyxoviruses - Para-Influenza Viruses Morbilliviruses - Measles Viruses Papovaviridae - Papillomaviruses Parvoviridae Picornaviridae Apthoviridae - Foot-and-Mouth Disease Viruses Enteroviridae - Polio Viruses Rhinoviridae - Rhinoviruses Poxviridae Retroviridae - Retroviruses A-Type Retroviruses - HIAP Immunodeficiency Viruses - HIV-1, HIV-2 Leukemia Viruses - FeLV Reoviridae - Reoviruses Rhabdoviruses - Rabies Viruses Togaviridae Flaviviridae- Hepatitis C Viruses Rubiviridae- Rubella Viruses More Internet Resources for Virologists: AIDS Information/Research (See HIV info also) General AIDS Information Misc. Special Topic AIDS Servers Clinical AIDS and Patient Care Resources Clinical Trials Information Educational/Sociological AIDS Resources Legal Issues Surrounding AIDS Other Lists of WWW AIDS Sites Alternative Views of AIDS Usenet Newsgroups Related to AIDS Emerging Viruses Information/Research Other Health Organizations Disease Servers (Viral?) Epidemiology and Public Health Sites Scientific Companies Scientific Societies of Interest to Virologists Online Access to Journals of Interest to Virologists Government Agencies of Interest to Virologists Patents & Legal Resources Technology Transfer Post-Doctoral and Other Science Jobs Other Lists of WWW Links for Virologists Usenet Newsgroups for Virologists WWW Searching Options -- Dr. John Nash (moderator) Disclaimer: The National Research Council of Canada disclaims responsibility for the content of messages posted to this newsgroup.