From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Apr 01 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!news.orst.edu!ava.bcc.orst.edu!fieldk From: fieldk@ava.bcc.orst.edu (Katharine Field) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Molecular Methods Workshop Course Date: 1 Apr 1996 17:18:58 GMT Organization: Oregon State University Lines: 143 Message-ID: <4jp362$ahr@news.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ava.bcc.orst.edu Announcing a Workshop on Methods in Molecular Biology at Oregon State University 1996 Offered by the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon (541) 737-3799 An intensive training course for graduate students, faculty and researchers in the biological and medical sciences The methods of molecular biology, in particular recombinant DNA work, have transformed research in the biological and medical sciences. This technology currently influences all aspects of biological research, has far-reaching applications in clinical diagnosis, and has led to economically important developments in agriculture and biotechnology. This course provides a hands-on introduction to molecular biological methods. Participants will spend two weeks in intensive laboratory work. In addition, daily lectures by molecular biologists will provide theoretical background and insight into cutting-edge research developments and techniques. Participants will learn the following techniques: cloning vector manipulation the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) preparation of recombinant DNA transformation of bacterial cells isolation of genomic DNA and RNA restriction analysis handling of radioactive isotopes isotopic and non-isotopic probe labelling Southern blots site-directed mutagenesis northern blots DNA sequencing synthesis of a fusion protein protein expression western blots Prerequisites: A good, recent background in DNA structure and chemistry, genetics and biochemistry. Schedule: MCB 525 - Methods in Molecular Biology Session 1 July 15 - July 27, 1996 Session 2 September 9 - September 21, 1996 This is a highly intensive training course, requiring a full-time committment from the participants. Activities are scheduled all day and some evenings. Classes begin in the laboratory at 8:00 AM. The lecture portion of the course is at 1:00 PM. There will be one Sunday off in the middle of the session. Registration will be limited to 24 students per session. A limited number of places in the course will be reserved for MCB students and other OSU graduate students who are required to take the course as part of their programs. All other course participants will be charged a workshop fee of $750 to take the course, or $900 to take the course and receive 3 credits through Continuing Higher Education (CHE). Important!!! OSU graduate students who are required to take MCB 525 as part of their graduate program must provide copies of their official programs, or a letter from their major professors, along with the application, in order to be considered for the course. Registration, Fees & Credit Please fill out and return by April 15, 1996. You will be notified if you have been accepted and registration forms will be mailed to you. You do not need to send in an application if you will be taking the lecture course only. Workshop fees must be paid in full by two weeks before the first day of class. Lectures only: MCB 524 - is offered as a 1-credit, pass/no pass course through the summer school (July) or as a fall-term course (September). There is no limit on enrollment. The course consists of approximately 15 one-hour lectures. MCB 525 students may not take MCB 524. Staff: Dr. Katharine Field, Coordinator Dr. Walt Ream, co-coordinator Dr. Gary Merrill, co-coordinator Faculty of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program Housing: Housing in studio "quad" apartments (single rooms with shared kitchen and bath) is available close to campus at a cost of $185 for two weeks. Restaurants are a short distance from class. A campus parking permit can be purchased for $5 per week. Class participants can use Dixon Recreation Center (lockers, swimming, weight room, exercise equipment, outdoor track, and more) for $3 per day. Location: The class will be held in the new Agricultural and Life Sciences Building on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis. Corvallis is a community of 45,000 residents located in the beautiful Willamette River Valley, an hour from the Pacific Coast and the Cascade Range. APPLICATION: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: Position: Organization or School, P. I.'s name: Highest Degree, Date: Address: City: State: Zip: Phone: (work) (home) email address: Preferred Session: _____July 15-July 27, 1996 _____September 9 - September 21, 1996 Status: _____ Graduate Course for Credit/Program _____ Workshop Course - no credit ($750) _____ Workshop Course - 3 credits from CHE ($900) If you do not get into your preferred session, do you want to be considered for the other session? _____ Yes _____ No I will need housing _____ Yes _____ No Return to: MCB 525 Application Molecular and Cellular Biology 3021 Agricultural and Life Sciences Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-7303 Or send via email to mcb@bcc.orst.edu Further Questions: Please call (541) 737-3799 or email mcb@bcc.orst.edu Oregon State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and complies with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Apr 03 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!THEORY.BCHS.UH.EDU!dbd From: dbd@THEORY.BCHS.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Postdocs-Comp. Molec. Bio. (fwd) Date: 4 Apr 1996 06:10:34 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 259 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199604041407.IAA18846@theory.BCHS.UH.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hi, This note should be of substantial interest to those interested in postdocing in computational molecular biology. Note who the reviewers are! dan davison University of Houston Forwarded message: > From trance@sloan.org Tue Apr 2 15:17:19 1996 > From: trance@sloan.org [...] > > ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION > and > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY > > > CATALYZING CAREER TRANSITIONS TO COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY > > > POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY > (second announcement) > > > [Please feel free to forward this announcement to those of your > scientific colleagues to whom it might be of interest.] > > > The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy > believe that a nexus with exceptional scientific potential is emerging > between the powerful theoretical and practical tools of molecular > biology and the revolutionary power of modern computational > techniques. However, too few scientists possess the > cross-disciplinary skills in both molecular biology and computation > that are needed to further such advances. > > The purpose of these fellowships is to catalyze career transitions > into computational molecular biology from physics, mathematics, > computer science, chemistry, and related fields. Ideal candidates > will have strong educational backgrounds in such fields and wish to > bring these backgrounds to bear upon computational molecular research > questions. In exceptional cases, we will also consider applications > from more traditional biological orientations in transition to > computational molecular biology. Applicants already firmly rooted in > computational molecular biology, or who are proposing to continue > pursuit of research undertaken for their Ph.D.s, may be more > appropriate candidates for other postdoctoral opportunities. > > We are therefore supporting this postdoctoral program designed to give > computationally sophisticated young scientists an intensive > postdoctoral opportunity in an appropriate molecular biology > laboratory. We particularly wish to encourage applications from those > holding doctorates in mathematics, physics, computer science, > chemistry, or other relevant fields who would like to develop the > capacity to apply their computational sophistication to the complex > problems that increasingly face molecular biology. > > The focus of this program is upon those aspects of computational > molecular biology related to data and information resulting from the > study of human and other genomes. Computational molecular biology is > taken broadly to include the application of mathematics (continuous > and discrete), statistics, probability, and computer science to > fundamental problems of molecular biology. The goal is to foster > interactions between the mathematical and biological sciences and to > provide rigorous training for scientists in this new interdisciplinary > area. Of special interest are important problems in structural > biology and genome analysis, including analysis of protein and nucleic > acid sequence, protein and nucleic acid structure, genome structure > and maps, cross-species genome analysis, multi-genic traits, and > structure-function relationships where the structures are from > genomes, genes, or gene products. > > Applications will be reviewed by: > > Leroy E. Hood, University of Washington > Eric S. Lander, Whitehead Institute/MIT > Michael S. Waterman, University of Southern California > Fred E. Cohen, University of California, San Francisco > > Awards will support up to two years of research work in an appropriate > molecular biology department or laboratory in the U.S. or Canada > selected by the applicant. The principal selection criteria will be > the potential of the applicant and the proposed postdoctoral research > and training plan for furthering rigorous computational approaches to > analysis of important molecular biological problems, both theoretical > and empirical. The capabilities of the proposed laboratory and senior > scientist in computational molecular research, and support for the > postdoctoral research by the senior scientist (department chair or > laboratory director) will be an important element considered in > selection. In addition, where possible, applicants are encouraged to > seek a secondary faculty sponsor from the mathematical/computer > sciences sector of the same campus. Only one proposal per applicant > will be considered, and a senior scientist should endorse only one > applicant for this competition. > > There are no formal application forms needed for this program. > Further details and application procedures are as follows: > > > NUMBER, STARTING DATE AND GRANT PERIOD: > > Up to 10 fellowships will be granted during 1996, each with a total > budget of $100,000 (including indirect and overhead costs, which > together will be limited to 15% of direct costs). These funds are to > be spread over a grant period of two years ($50,000 per year). > Selections for this second deadline will be announced in November, > 1996. Funding may begin any time after January 1, 1997. > > > STIPEND: > > - $42,000 per year to Fellow, inclusive of benefits. > - $ 1,500 per year in research expenses to be allocated at the > discretion of the Fellow. > - Institutional overhead of up to 15% of direct costs. > > > ELIGIBILITY: > > Fellow - Applicants must be citizens or legal permanent residents of > the United States. Ph.D. earned within the past 5 years or expected > by December, 1996, in mathematics, physics, computer science, > chemistry or other relevant fields. (Initiation of postdoc requires > completion of Ph.D.) Applications to extend an existing postdoc > cannot be considered. > > Institution - Non-profit private or public institution of higher > education or research, located in the United States or Canada. > Applicant must make formal arrangements with a senior scientist (e.g. > laboratory director) at the institution where the postdoctoral > fellowship would be held before applying for the award. > > > MATERIALS NEEDED FOR APPLICATION > FROM APPLICANT (8 COPIES, FULLY COLLATED): > > Cover Page, including: > > Applicant's name, address, telephone, fax and e-mail > > Applicant's current department and institution > > Title of proposed postdoctoral research project and > institution at which it would be conducted (including > mail and email addresses and telephone and fax numbers) > > Planned start date of proposed fellowship > > Applicant's Ph.D. granting institution and > year of receipt (or date expected) > > Laboratory, department and institution in > which postdoctoral fellowship would be held > > Name, address, telephone, etc. of senior scientist > > Names, addresses, telephone numbers, etc. of references (see below) > > Brief abstract of proposed research (less than 100 words) > > Proposed research/training plan describing scientific importance of > subject, with considerable specificity as to analytic methods and data > to be employed, and reason for choice of proposed sponsoring scientist > and institution (with a firm maximum of 1,500 words, including > selected citations). > > If desired, copies of up to two reprints may be attached to each > collated copy of proposal. > > Statement of applicant's reasons for interest in computational > molecular biology, current career goals, and potential role of > postdoctoral fellowship in attaining such goals (ca. 250 words). > > A summary of the major findings of the applicant's dissertation > research (250 words). > > Curriculum vitae including educational background, topic of doctoral > dissertation, positions held to date, scientific awards and grants > received citing source, duration and amount (direct costs), full > titles and references of all publications. > > Formal institutional endorsement of proposal may be included, but is > not required unless and until a formal award offer has been made. > > A stamped, self-addressed postcard (if applicant desires) to confirm > that application materials have been received (allow at least 3 weeks > for processing; no telephone calls, please). > > All applications should be final and complete; no substitutions or > additions. > > > FROM SPONSORING SENIOR SCIENTIST (8 COPIES, FULLY COLLATED): > > Letter of agreement to host and supervise the research of postdoctoral > applicant, including any necessary institutional clearances, e.g. > animal experimentation, human subjects, recombinant DNA, etc. > > Qualitative comments concerning scientific merit of proposed research > and training plan. > > Brief description (500 words) of current research, sources of funding, > relevance of applicant's proposed research, and personnel with whom > applicant would work. > > Curriculum vitae including educational background, current and former > positions, scientific awards and grants received citing source, > duration and amount (direct costs), full titles and references of > publications related to computational molecular biology. > > > FROM REFERENCES (8 COPIES): > > The applicant must request reference letters from three scientists in > relevant disciplines who are knowledgeable about applicant's > capabilities and previous research, and to whom he/she has sent a copy > of the research/training plan proposed for the postdoctoral > fellowship. If possible, one of these three should have personal > knowledge of the applicant's doctoral research, and all must comment > on the applicant's summary of the major findings of his/her recent > research. > > Reference letters should include comments on overall ranking of > applicant, e.g. top 1% of Ph.D.s, top 10%, etc. It is the applicant's > responsibility to assure that reference letters (8 copies) are sent. > > DEADLINE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: > > The deadline for receipt of all application materials from applicant, > sponsoring scientist, and related reference letters is August 1, 1996 > (firm). Announcements will be made by November, 1996. > > > SEND APPLICATION TO: > Dr. Michael S. Teitelbaum > Sloan-U.S. Department of Energy > Joint Postdoctoral Fellowships > in Computational Molecular Biology > c/o Alfred P. Sloan Foundation > 630 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2550 > New York, NY 10111-0242 > > > NOTE: This announcement is largely the same as one originally > distributed in September, 1995, with some minor editorial > clarifications, necessary changes to deadlines and notification dates, > and changes in financial provisions. > -- dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences & computer science /univ. of Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5934/davison@uh.edu/ "Christ, I'm an American, how can I fail to do good?" -Chris, in Miss Saigon Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to myself. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Apr 04 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!news.eecs.umich.edu!nntp.neu.edu!news3.near.net!yale!news-mail-gateway!daemon From: tree@afn.org (David T. Gray) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: DownLoad - ~Net/DownLoad Manager (Latest Version) Date: 5 Apr 1996 08:17:57 -0500 Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway Lines: 27 Sender: daemon@cs.yale.edu Message-ID: <199604051317.HAA09725@phoenix.phoenix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: babyblue.cs.yale.edu Version "B" is available on the Net at: http://www.phoenix.net/~aquarian/davids/net.html or http://www.afn.org/~tree/net.html The search engine is an offline interrogator of large disorganized text files supporting multiple searches on single files or whole directories for up-to four key words or phrases, simulating hyper-text associations. Hope you enjoy the new version... 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Gray at tree@afn.org From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Apr 09 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!umdac!news From: pelle@ekbot.umu.se (Pelle Ingvarsson) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Symposium on the Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction Date: 10 Apr 1996 14:43:01 GMT Organization: Umeå University Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4kghdl$fr@studium.student.umu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: pelle.ekbot.umu.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction September 25-29 1996 Umea , Sweden Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecology 10th Annual Meeting The Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecology (SCAPE) invites you to a symposium entitled "The Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction". This year marks the 10th anniversary of SCAPE. To celebrate this occasion and to highlight recent progress in ecological and evolutionary studies of plant reproduction we have invited seven plenary lecturers: S. Armbruster, University of Alaska - Fairbanks S.C.H. Barrett, University of Toronto P.A. Cox, Brigham Young University K. Faegri, University of Bergen D.W. Schemske, University of Washington J. Schmitt, Brown University J.D. Thomson, SUNY - Stony Brook The invited lecturers will give talks in Umea on September 25-27. The social arrangements during these three days include a pub evening and a symposium banquet where there will be plenty of opportunities for informal discussions. The symposium will in the afternoon of September 27 be transferred to Norrfallsviken, 3 hours south of Umea, where contributed papers and posters will be presented. Participants should expect to be back in Umea in the late afternoon of September 29. For more information send an e-mail scape96@ekbot.umu.se or check http://www.ekbot.umu.se/~scape96/index.html -Pelle Ingvarsson Department of Ecological Botany University of Umea SWEDEN From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Apr 10 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI Fundraising Update! Date: 11 Apr 1996 02:01:09 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 149 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199604110900.CAA14822@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Apr 14 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!pasteur.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!news From: ZITO@CMNS.MNEGRI.IT (Francesco Zito) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT (ETRO Working Party on genetics and vascular diseases) Date: 15 Apr 1996 16:08:14 GMT Organization: Consorzio Mario Negri Sud Lines: 26 Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[8706] Message-ID: <4kts9e$1las@serra.unipi.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: journ02.cmns.mnegri.it X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.5@journ02.cmns.mnegri.it Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. Due to the success of the first European Thrombosis Research Organization (ETRO) Working Party on genetics held in 1995, a second Working Party on Population Genetics of Hemostatic Risk Factors for Arterial Vascular Disease: Genetic - environmental factor interaction will be held on May 30 - June 1, 1996 at Consorzio Mario Negri Sud (CMNS), in S. Maria Imbaro Italy. This Working Party, organized by ETRO and CMNS with the support of the E.U., will aim at combining and presenting European expertise in the fields of thrombosis, genetics and epidemiology. For your convenience, we have created a web site at http://www.cmns.mnegri.it/etro where you will find registration and grant forms, together with the preliminary programme and other valuable information. From this web site you will be able to submit grant applications and register on-line. To facilitate interaction, we are inviting participants and other news group subscribers to submit questions, via internet or fax, to speakers prior to the Working Party. Questions can be submitted on-line by visiting our web site at http://www.cmns.mnegri.it/etro. All submitted questions have the possibility of becoming topics for debate during the Working Party or may be published in the proceedings. Please note the deadline for early registration is April 30, 1996. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Apr 16 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Johnjoe McFadden Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: transposable elements and speciation Date: 17 Apr 1996 09:59:29 +0100 Lines: 26 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <4l2bth$6a1@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> X-Sender: bss1jm@central.surrey.ac.uk Original-To: pop-bio@dl.ac.uk I am interested in the possibility of transposable elements being involved in speciation events. Does anybody know of examples of species or genera-specific insertion sequences or transposable elements from prokaryotes or eukaryotes? A few examples that I am aware of are IS200 in Salmonella species, IS6110 in Mycobacterium tuberclulosis complex and IS900 in Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Any others? Johnjoe McFadden Johnjoe McFadden, PhD Molecular Microbiology Group School of Biological Sceinces University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, UK. tel: 44-(0)1483 300800 extn.2671 fax: 44-(0)1483 300374 e-mail: j.mcfadden@surrey.ac.uk From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Apr 16 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!paperboy.uconn.edu!usenet From: kent@darwin.darwin.eeb.uconn.edu (Kent E. Holsinger) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Call for Symposia, SSE 1997 Date: 17 Apr 1996 14:54:07 -0400 Organization: Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut Lines: 41 Sender: kent@darwin.darwin.eeb.uconn.edu Message-ID: Reply-To: Kent@Darwin.EEB.UConn.Edu NNTP-Posting-Host: darwin.eeb.uconn.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Society for the Study of Evolution Call for Symposium Proposals for the 1997 Meeting The Council of the Society for the Study of Evolution invites its members to propose symposia for the summer 1997 meeting to be held in Boulder, Colorado on 14-18 June. Proposals should include: 1) a synopsis of the symposium topic, 2) a list of proposed speakers and topics, and 3) a brief rationale. Proposals concerning newly breaking fields, fields ripe for synthesis, and those with topics and speakers that differ from recent SSE symposia will generally be given higher priority. The Council encourages proposals that include speakers from groups traditionally underrepresented in SSE symposia, e.g., young, non-North American, minority, or female members. Symposium proposals will be reviewed by the Council at the St. Louis, Missouri meeting in June 1996 and organizers will be notified shortly thereafter. Proposals should be sent by 24 May 1996 to: Dr. Kent E. Holsinger, Executive Vice President Society for the Study of Evolution Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut, U-43 Storrs, CT 06269-3043 U.S.A. (860)486-4059 -- Kent P.S. Please feel free to post this message to any mailing lists whose members might be interested. -- Kent E. Holsinger Kent@Darwin.EEB.UConn.Edu -- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology -- University of Connecticut, U-43 -- Storrs, CT 06269-3043 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Apr 17 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Special Project Request Date: 18 Apr 1996 04:53:19 +0100 Lines: 47 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <4l4ebf$9m@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Original-To: IMMNET-L@dartcms1, INHEALTH@rpiecs, MINHEALTH@dawn.hampshire.edu, POP-BIO@dl.ac.uk, PSYART@nervm, SUNYHC-L@bingvmb, UVHINF-L@uvvm, WHSCL-L@emuvm1 Please forgive this impersonal, and ultimately non-participatory request from your list. I am looking for people willing to participate in an art project and thought that people on the Internet of similar, if only tangential interests might help me. This summer I plan to stand on Chicago street corners and ask people if they will let me take a photo of their smallpox vaccination scar. As you may know, almost twenty years ago the World Health Organization officially declared smallpox as an eradicated disease. That leaves only the scars of vaccination as testament (aside from apparently two vials of the Variola virus in safekeeping - one in Russia and the other at the CDC, and 500,000 doses of the vaccine kept by WHO). And, as we are all mortal, we that carry the scar will, after a time, vanish as well. Perhaps contemporary health issues like AIDS will come to mind as a similar, though less swift, disaster as the smallpox epidemics of one, two and three hundreds years ago. Indeed, I am mindful of the role smallpox played in the annihilation of much of the indigenous populations in the western hemisphere. And now, with increased incidents of TB and polio, along with ebola and a host (no pun intended) of other bugs coming out of the woods and onto the scene, I cannot help wonder if smallpox will somehow rear its ugly pustules again. There are other issues that the smallpox scar plays into in the art world, such as ritual scarification and tattoos, but I digress from my request. I am asking people on the Internet to provide me with close-up photos (black & white or color, any size film, except slides) of their own, and/or others' smallpox vaccination scars. Photos (date of birth and names of participants are optional).should be sent to the gallery that represents me: Beret International, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60622, USA. My goal is to fill entire walls with these photos in the Fall of 1996. They will be a strong testament to the living and remind us of those we have lost to diseases - not to mention what medicine and society at large can do when it puts its collective mind to it. As I ideally would like worldwide participation, I would also ask that my request be forwarded to other lists that you participate on. Thank you. And please e-mail me about any aspect of my request you decide to do. Sincerely, Patrick Collier PtCPatrick@AOL.com From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Apr 18 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!night.primate.wisc.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!nntp Newsgroups: bionet.general,bionet.info-theory,bionet.neuroscience,bionet.population-bio,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.molbio.genome-program Subject: [CFP] Symposia on Intelligence and Systems Message-ID: <1996Apr19.014018.118129@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> From: Jim Gattiker Date: 19 Apr 96 01:40:16 CDT Followup-To: comp.robotics.research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Approved: shigeoka@ukans.edu, crr@robot.ireq.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: falcon.cc.ukans.edu Lines: 76 Xref: biosci bionet.general:21194 bionet.info-theory:4089 bionet.neuroscience:13726 bionet.population-bio:1911 bionet.molbio.evolution:4447 bionet.molbio.genome-program:1707 Call for Papers INTERNATIONAL IEEE SYMPOSIA on INTELLIGENCE and SYSTEMS Nov. 4-6,1996 Washington DC Area Sponsored by : IEEE Computer Society In Cooperation with : IEEE CS TAI Conference; AAAI Society; AAAS Society; SMC Society; NN Society; Robotics and Automation Society; IAPR Society; ACM Society; BU-CIS Center. SCOPE OF SYMPOSIA: The joined Symposia on Intelligence and Systems offer a media for the constructive interaction among scientists and practitioners from different research fields (computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, etc.) having goals of the development of methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in neuroscience and biology, automation and robotics, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. ================================================================= 2nd IEEE Symposium on INTELLIGENCE in NEURAL and BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (INBS) SOME TOPICS: DNA Sequences Processing, Genome Processes, DNA Topologies, DNA Defects Detection, Formal Linguistics of DNA, Computational Genetics, Biotechnology, DNA Tools, Genome Mapping and sequencing, Molecular Biology, Biological Models, Languages Understanding, Learning, Perception, Self-organized models, Artificial and Biological Neural Nets, Neuroscientific Models, etc. ================================================================= 2nd IEEE Symposium on INTELLIGENCE in AUTOMATION and ROBOTICS (IAR) SOME TOPICS: Robots Path Planning, Multiple robots Motion Planning, Autonomous Navigation, Arm/Leg Control, Robot Vision, Visual Tracking, Human-Robots Symbiosis, Telerobotics, Micro and Nano Robotics, Robots Cooperation, Assembly Strategies, Sensors, Walking Robots, Tasks Planning, Process Planning, Scheduling, etc. ================================================================= 2nd IEEE Symposium on IMAGE, SPEECH, NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS (ISNLS) SOME TOPICS: Image (Coding, Compression, Encryption, Segmentation, Enhancement, Restoration,Skeletonization, Analysis, Morphology, Databases, Video), Pattern Recognition, Image Understanding & Interpretations; Speech (Coding, Compression, Processing, Analysis, Synthesis, Recognition, Understanding); Natural Language (NL) Processing, Computational Linguistics, Document Processing, NL Translation, NL Understanding, Multimedia,etc. ================================================================= SYMPOSIA CHAIRS: Program N.Bourbakis SUNY, Publicity J.Gattiker LANL, Proceedings S.Mertoguno FUJITSU, Awards N.Papanikolopoulos UMN, Journals L.Tsoukalas PURDUE, Registration & Local Arrangement D Kavraki AIC More information: INBS@BingSuns.CC.Binghamton.edu Please send four copies of an extended summary no more than 6 pages describing the methodology and/or results by June 30, 1996 to: N.G. Bourbakis, Binghamton University (SUNY), Research Center on Intelligent Systems (CIS), Engineering Building, 3rd Floor, Room P14, Binghamton, NY 13902. Notification of acceptance by July 31, 1996. Camera ready articles by Aug. 31,1996. A collection of best papers will be published in an archival Journal and an Award will be given to each best paper in each Symposium. More information: Bourbaki@BingSuns.CC.Binghamton.edu , fax:607-777-4464 , tel:607-777-2165 ******* Crossposted: comp.robotics.research (moderated) ******* Summary: Academic, government & industry research in robotics. Archives and information: http://www.robot.ireq.ca/CRR Charter: ftp://ftp.robot.ireq.ca/pub/crr/Charter Meta-discussions/information: crr-request@robot.ireq.ca From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Apr 22 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!news.vub.ac.be!news.belnet.be!swsbe6.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!news From: ZITO@CMNS.MNEGRI.IT (Francesco Zito) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT (ETRO Working Party on genetics and vascular diseases) May 30-June 1, 1996 Date: 23 Apr 1996 13:20:56 GMT Organization: Consorzio Mario Negri Sud Lines: 27 Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[8706] Message-ID: <4lilfo$f26@serra.unipi.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: journ02.cmns.mnegri.it X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.5@journ02.cmns.mnegri.it Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. Due to the success of the first European Thrombosis Research Organization (ETRO) Working Party on genetics held in 1995, a second Working Party on "Population Genetics of Hemostatic Risk Factors for Arterial Vascular Disease: Genetic - environmental factor interaction" will be held on May 30 - June 1, 1996 at Consorzio Mario Negri Sud (CMNS), in S. Maria Imbaro Italy. This Working Party, organized by ETRO and CMNS with the support of the E.U., will aim at combining and presenting European expertise in the fields of thrombosis, genetics and epidemiology. For your convenience, we have created a web site at http://www.cmns.mnegri.it/etro where you will find registration and grant forms, together with the preliminary programme and other valuable information. From this web site you will be able to submit grant applications and register on-line. To facilitate interaction, we are inviting participants and other news group subscribers to submit questions, via internet or fax, to speakers prior to the Working Party. Questions can be submitted on-line by visiting our web site at http://www.cmns.mnegri.it/etro. All submitted questions have the possibility of becoming topics for debate during the Working Party or may be published in the proceedings. Please note the deadline for Early Registration is April 30, 1996. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Apr 22 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news1.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!alpha1.csd.uwm.edu!not-for-mail From: bergtrom@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Gerald K Bergtrom) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Help with Mega Date: 23 Apr 1996 18:12:50 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4lj6j2$25c@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.169.1 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] As part of our study of 11 related genes in two gene clusters in two insect species, we are trying to determine rates of nonsynonymous and synonymous mutations per site (Dn, Ds) in coding DNA using MEGA. While the average base conrtent of the coding DNA is around 54%, there is a marked avoidance of G at synonymous positions. The number of transitions and transversions is not otherwise unusual. Nevertheless, we have applied the Jukes-Cantor correction option to the calculations in MEGA. We are aware of no special treatments for sequences showing this phenomenon. Is what we are doing OK, or is there some other (better) way to calculate nonsynonymous and synonymous substitution rates (preferably with free or inexpensive software)? -- Mail to: Ship To: Dr. Gerald Bergtrom, Ph.D. Dr. Gerald Bergtrom, Ph.D. Biological Sciences Dept. Biological Sciences Dept. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 3209 North Maryland Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53201 Milwaukee, WI 53211 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Apr 23 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!megill From: megill@zoology.ubc.ca (William Megill) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Course in grey whale research techniques Date: 24 Apr 1996 04:54:09 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4lkc5h$s31@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: light.zoology.ubc.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] The Coastal Ecosystems Research Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable organisation, offering seven-day courses in marine mammal research techniques. Courses are open to the general public - no previous experience necessary. Research is focused this year on the feeding behaviour, movements, and abundance of grey whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, killer whales and humpback whales, off Cape Caution, BC, Canada. Courses are taught from a 40' sailboat, sea-kayaks, and from shore. Participants are incorporated directly into the research team for the duration of the course, and have the opportunity to learn techniques first- hand from working biologists. In addition to the field research techniques, the course also includes instruction and hands-on experience in sailing or sea-kayaking. Course cost includes tuition, all meals, return transportation from Port Hardy to the base camp, and tent accomodation. Cost: $1400 (CAD) $1075 (USD) (Student prices available some dates) (call/email for information about kayaking) Dates: (NB: At only four to five participants per course, dates are filling up) Sailing: June 30 - July 6, 6-12, 14-20, 20-26, 28-August 3 August 3-9, 11-17, 17-23, 25-31, 31 - September 6. Kayaking: June 30 - July 7, 7-14, 14-21, 21-28, 28-August 4 August 4-11, 11-18, 18-25, 25-September 1, 1-7. For more information, contact: Coastal Ecosystems Research Foundation c/o Adventure Spirit Travel Company 1843 W 12th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6J 2E7 1-800-667-7799 (N America) (604) 736-5188 (elsewhere) email: rdavis@direct.ca world-wide web: http://www.bcu.ubc.ca/~megill/cerf From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Apr 25 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!news.vub.ac.be!news.belnet.be!swsbe6.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!lakesis.fapesp.br!bee.uspnet.usp.br!spider.usp.br!luizmau From: Luiz Mauricio da Silva Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: mensagem Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:38:50 -0400 Organization: Universidade de Sao Paulo / Brasil Lines: 13 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: spider.usp.br Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: MAIALIMA@cb.ufrn.br In-Reply-To: <1110651709@lineu.cb.ufrn.br> Somebory can help me saying me where can I found ( in the internet) something about G statistcs and F statistics. It's used for population subdivision analysis. Thanks in advance. Mauricio ________________________________________________________________ Luiz Mauricio da Silva mauricio@npd.ufpe.br Univ. Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Ciencias Biologicas Departamento de Genetica Lab. Genetica Bioquimica Fone 081-2718521 luizmau@spider.usp.br _______________________________________________________________ From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Apr 26 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e2a.gnn.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: mthogerson@aol.com (MTHOGERSON) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: mensagem Date: 27 Apr 1996 07:17:12 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 18 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4lsvno$r7n@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader I don't know about sources on the internet, but try looking them up in Sokal, R.R. and F.J. Rohlf. 1995. Biometry, 3rd ed. W.H. Freeman, NY. ISBN: 0-7167-2411-1 They have a good discussion about chi-square vs. G. Mark Thogerson Biology Department Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 49418 mthogerson@aol.com or thogersm@gvsu.edu CV home page: http://members.aol.com/mthogerson "Man occasionally stumbles over the truth, but he usually picks himself up and carries on." -- Winston Churchill