From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Jul 01 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!hookup!news.nstn.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.mcgill.ca!pigeon.biol.mcgill.ca!user From: thomasb@bio1.lan.mcgill.ca (Thomas Bataillon) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: infinite-allele model and coalescent theory Date: 2 Jul 1996 18:02:33 GMT Organization: Universite McGill- Departement de Biologie Lines: 8 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pigeon.biol.mcgill.ca Hi, I am looking for papers making use of a "coalescent" approach to derive properties for sample of alleles under the infinite-allele model. Usually the infinite-site model is assumed, i guess because there is a nice relationship between the distribution of number of segregating sites in the sample and the distribution of coalescent times. Thanks in advance if you have any refs in mind. Thomas. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Jul 01 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!hookup!news.nstn.ca!ott.istar!istar.net!news.trytel.on.ca !usenet From: Dan Nedoborski Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Cellular and Molecular Biology 2ns World Congress Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:56:35 -0500 Organization: Nedcore Enterprises Lines: 11 Message-ID: <31D56E52.588E@ov-m.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: port19.trytel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) Announcing: The 2nd World Congress on Cellular and Molecular Biology http://www.cmb.org/ September 3rd-7th / 1996 This congress will be located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Many speakers presenting their research and take this opportunity to present yours. Visit our website - http://www.cmb.org for more details. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Jul 08 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!news From: Duncan Greig Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: help with wild yeast collection Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 16:35:32 +0000 Organization: Institute of Molecular Medicine Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31E28A54.3E79@st-cross.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: duncan.greig@st-cross.ox.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: immmac56.jr2.ox.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Hi. We are collecting isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and S.paradoxus from oak tree bark for a project on the population structure of wild yeast. It is important that our isolates are genetically diverse so we would like to get samples from all around Britain. If anyone would like to help we would be extremely grateful for small samples of oak tree bark or sap, which should be wrapped in cling-film or put in a sterile tube and posted to me: Duncan Greig, Yeast Genetics, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU Please take care to avoid contamination with lab strains or baking/brewing strains, we want wild yeast. Please put a note in with your name, address and the location of the tree. We don't care what species of oak it is. Any strains we get from your sample will be named with your initials (unless you request otherwise), so you will be immortalised in any publications that result from the use of your strain! My phone number is 01865 222 405 - please phone or email if you would like more information. Thanks for your help. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Jul 09 23:00:00 1996 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!EU.net!sun4nl!surfnet.nl!spider.research.kpn.com!usenet From: J.P.Buijs@research.kpn.com (JPB) Subject: Update Vita Marina Web site Message-ID: Sender: usenet@news.research.kpn.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: dl8014.research.kpn.com Organization: KPN Research, The Netherlands X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:14:13 GMT Lines: 23 Dear fellow malacologists, The service of the Vita Marina home page has been extended with several lists of newly described species in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. Another new feature is the WWW-page of Leo Man in 't Veld, a Dutch zoologists and artist who is specialized in zoological objects (anatomy, (details of) habitus etc. using drawing, painting and air brush techniques). Existing services include a list of major symposiums and meetings around the world and a directory of malacologists with their E-mail address and interests (> 180 entries). Have a look at URL: http://www.pi.net/~spirula Kind regards, Jan Paul Buijs From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Jul 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 Jul 1996 02:00:09 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 154 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199607110900.CAA28789@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net BIOSCI is about halfway to its funding goal!! 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 are only about halfway to our funding goal and need to raise further funds to avoid having to curtail services at net.bio.net. Fundraising 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 will be getting newer 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. Please contact us for further details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The overall BIOSCI WWW pages are currently visited by users from close to 5500 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 800 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. Ads can also be displayed on various combinations of other BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Please contact us at biosci-help@net.bio.net for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jul 14 23:00:00 1996 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.netcore.ca!news From: pelee@netcore.ca Subject: Estimating Raccoon Abundance - Request For Information Organization: NetCore Inc., Windsor, Ontario, Canada (519) 258-0004 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 23:08:24 GMT Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: nb1s32.netcore.ca Sender: news@netcore.ca (Usenet News Administrator) Lines: 40 Greetings, My name is Grant Whitehead and I work at Point Pelee National Park in Ontario, Canada. We are doing a project on turtle survivourship and nesting ecology in the Park. We have found that raccoons are a major predator of turtles and thus would like to obtain some information about the different aspects of raccoon ecology. In particular, we would like some information on the following subjects: 1. Raccoon foraging and hunting habits, what are they? What makes a raccoon such an efficient predator? How does human development affect raccoon hunting habits? 2. Habitat preferences, what are they? Do fragmented habitats/ecosystems lead to greater raccoon densities? How does human development affect raccoon habitat preferences and densities? ***3. Calculating raccoon densities. What techniques or procedures can be used to estimate raccoon population size and densities*** 4. What are some of the common factors that keep raccoon populations at "natural" levels (i.e., common diseases, predators, etc.). 5. A listing of any literature that you know of that could answer these questions (this would also help us do further research searches on these topics). We would appreciate it if anybody can assist us with these requests. Thanks in advance. Grant Whitehead Resource Conservation Technician Point Pelee National Park, Ontario, Canada e-mail: grant_whitehead@pch.gc.ca OR pelee@netcore.ca phone: (519) 322-0484 fax: (519) 322-0011 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Jul 15 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: JAN CZEKAJEWSKI <75144.2413@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio,bionet.toxicology,bionet.users.addresses,sci.agriculture,sci.bio.ecology Subject: LAB-ANIMAL RES.EQUIP.CATALOG ON WEB Date: 16 Jul 1996 12:45:58 GMT Organization: Columbus Instruments Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4sg2u6$nl8$3@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> Xref: biosci bionet.population-bio:1979 bionet.toxicology:814 bionet.users.addresses:3071 sci.agriculture:10958 sci.bio.ecology:19897 NEW COLUMBUS INSTRUMENTS LAB-ANIMAL RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION CATALOG IS NOW ON THE WEB. It describes over 60 instruments for physiology, pharmacology, toxicology and behavioral research. For example, you will find description of Cardiac output computers for rats and mice, Treadmills for rats and mice, End-tidal CO2/N2O computer with very small air sample 5ml/min applicable for small rodents, Oxygen consumption computer for rats, mice, dogs, horses and humans, pyrogenic activity meters, oxygen and CO2 gas analyzers, Bacteria respirometers and more. You may view this catalog accessing: http://www.colinst.com If you need hard copy, I will send it to you at free of charge. Please e-mail your street address to 75144.2413@compuserve.com Jan Czekajewski Columbus Instruments. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Jul 18 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.tamu.edu!news From: Andy Tirpak Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Oil Spill Chemical Response Course Date: 19 Jul 1996 20:15:11 GMT Organization: TEEX Spill Control Program Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4soqcf$5ql@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.95.50.116 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12(Macintosh; I; PPC) X-URL: news:bionet.population-bio TEXAS ENGINEERING EXTENSION SERVICE CENTER FOR MARINE TRAINING & SAFETY Oil Spill Control Program 8701 TEICHMAN ROAD GALVESTON, TEXAS 77554 Oil-Spill Dispersant Application Management This 28-hour course covers the monitoring and control of oil-spill dispersant applications and prepares participants to act in a leadership capacity during an oil spill. The proper use, application, regulation and documentation of dispersants is thoroughly covered in the classroom and field exercises. Topics: Advantages and Disadvantages of Dispersant Oil Spill Response Planning Monitoring and Control of Dispersant Applications Documentation of Dispersant Applications Laboratory Exercises Test for the Dispersibility of Oil Field Exercises Calibration of Dispersant Spray Systems Field Trials Location of Spill Using Airborne and Waterborne Surveillance Coordinated Applications of Dispersant Course Length: 3 1/2 days, 28 training hours Course Times and Training Location: Fort Lauderdale & Port Everglades, Florida 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Call or e-mail for more details Class Size: Minimum - 10 students; Maximum - 30 students Tuition: $600.00 Course Dates: October 8-11, 1996 REGISTRATION: 409-740-4850 - FAX: 409-744-2890 For additional information call or E-mail: Andy Tirpak at CMTIRPAK@TEEXNET.TAMU.EDU From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Jul 20 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!homer.alpha.net!uwm.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!news.bc.net!news.sfu.ca!news From: Evan Cooch Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: SURGE book... Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 18:59:08 -0700 Organization: Simon Fraser University Lines: 48 Message-ID: <31F18EEC.4237@fraser.sfu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cooch.biol.sfu.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Greetings - Some time ago I posted a notice concerning the availability of program SURGE, for analyzing mark-recapture data. As many of you know, the ecological literature is full of analyses that could/should have used mark-recapture, but didn't - primarily because the tools were not available - or easy to use. While SURGE is one of a growing number of mark-recapture analysis programs out there, it (like most of them) is not something you can "teach yourself". It is with this in mind that Roger Pradel, Nadav Nur and myself wrote a book on "how to use SURGE". It is about 135 pages in length, and covers most of what we normally cover in classes or specialized workshops. It is written very much in the vein of the Idiots Guide to..." series of books populating the market these days - we spend as much time explaining what is going on as we do on what to do. While not exactly a textbook on the formalism of mark-recapture theory, it is probably a pretty good primer. A few beta-tests have shown us that most people with even a little exposure to standard ANOVA and frequency analysis should be able to quickly work through the book with the minimum of cerebral stress. Of course, hard-core stats types will probably want more of the "details", but they're happier reading Biometrika anyway! :-) The book can be obtained in 2 ways: you can either send me $20, to get a "bound" copy of the book, (the $20 covers the cost of production and mailing), or you can download print-to-disk versions of each chapter for free, and print them off yourself. Can't get much cheaper than that. Our goal is to make the document available to poor starving students who can't afford the $$$ needed to attend the 3-4 day SURGE workshops that have been periodically held in both North America and Europe. Full details on obtaining the book (in one form or the other) can be obtained from the following Web site - http://www.biol.sfu.ca/wildberg/cmr/surge_guide.html -- _///_ -. .- ( L ) \//// +--------------------------------------+ --(\=/)-- ( ) | Evan G. Cooch | / \ / / | Department of Biological Sciences | I V / | Simon Fraser University | I / | Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6 | I / | cooch@fraser.sfu.ca 604-291-5611 | +--------------------------------------+ http://www.biol.sfu.ca/wildberg/cooch.html From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Jul 20 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!netnews.worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: goshawk@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Cooper's hawks in Illinois Date: 21 Jul 1996 07:22:53 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4sslsd$ejn@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.chicago-3.il.dial-access.att.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22ATT (Windows; U; 16bit) Has anyone sighted Cooper's hawks in Illinois between May 1 and Aug 1, particularly in the central, southern and western portions of the state? Please respond via email as I do not regularly monitor this group. Thank you very much! -- Regards- Rob ************************************************************************** "Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Thomas Jefferson ************************************************************************** From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jul 21 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: JAN CZEKAJEWSKI <75144.2413@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: bionet.biology.cardiovascular,bionet.general,bionet.neuroscience,bionet.population-bio,bionet.toxicology Subject: ARTERIAL pCO2 IN LAB ANIMALS Date: 22 Jul 1996 19:32:58 GMT Organization: Columbus Instruments Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4t0l1a$t5k$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> Xref: biosci bionet.biology.cardiovascular:1108 bionet.general:22824 bionet.neuroscience:14973 bionet.population-bio:1984 bionet.toxicology:834 Arterial pCO2 is one of the variables which interferes other physiological parameters in anesthetized animals during surgical experiments. It needs to be kept at more or less constant level during experiment. It has been established that the value of arterial pCO2 is identical to the end-tidal CO2. End-tidal CO2 measurement in larger animals and in humans are not a problem because of the presence of sufficient volume of available respiratory gases while the measurements in very small animals such as in rats and mice were difficult because of low volume of gas. In rats and mice, arterial pCO2 can be measured without drawing blood from artery. We developed Micro-capnometer (end-tidal CO2 meter) that utilizes low air sample flow rates (5, 20 ml/min) and is ideal for laboratory animals especially, for rats and mice. The device has also the capability of determining the respiration rate by counting the period from the wave pattern of CO2 concentration. If you are interested in this device and its application in rats and mice, please e-mail your street address. I will send you all the necessary information. JAN From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jul 21 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newsmaster From: Cathie Stewart-Moore Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: PhD Scholarships Date: 22 Jul 1996 05:17:28 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4sv2t8$2s4@manuel.anu.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.39.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:bionet.population-bio THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PhD Scholarships Applications are invited from Australian citizens or permanent residents for two PhD scholarships tenable in the Molecular and Population Genetics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences. Applicants should hold a BSc honours degree at upper second or first class level. One scholarship is for research in Dr Clark-Walker's laboratory studying the molecular genetics of yeast in relation to energy transducing mechanisms in mitochondria. The other is for research in Professor Gibson's laboratory to either work on evolutionary aspects of the regulation of gene expression in Drosophila, with particular reference to the gene encoding glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, or on a project with Dr. A. Lohe using the transformation vector Mariner to identify novel genes involved in Drosophila development. Both laboratories have excellent facilities. Successful applicants will be given the opportunity after their second year to present their results at an appropriate international congress. The PhD scholarship is for three years with a stipend of $15,364pa in 1996. For further information contact Dr G.D. Clark-Walker, Phone: (06) 249 4510 email DCW@rsbs-central.anu.edu.au or Professor J.B. Gibson, Phone: (06) 249 5085 email Gibson@rsbs-central.anu.edu.au. For application forms contact the School Secretary, Research School of Biological Sciences, GPO Box 475, Canberra ACT 2601. Closing date for applications: 30 August 1996 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jul 21 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!NSF.GOV!lbrooks From: lbrooks@NSF.GOV Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: NSF Human Genome Diversity Project Pilot Projects Date: 22 Jul 1996 16:34:39 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 44 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9606228380.AA838089278@x2relay.nsf.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The US National Science Foundation recently announced a competition for Pilot Projects for a Human Genome Diversity Project (NSF 96-112). The deadline for submission is September 30, 1996. The goal of a Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) would be to sample human diversity. In such a project, DNA samples along with socio-cultural, demographic, linguistic, historical and other data would be collected in a coordinated manner. Research still needs to be done in several areas before a HGDP could be undertaken. Proposals for pilot projects are being solicited in two areas: -Improving techniques for collecting, preserving, amplifying, and selecting DNA markers -Research on ethical and legal issues in a cross-cultural setting. The Special Competition Announcement is on the World Wide Web: Go to the NSF homepage at http://www.nsf.gov/ Choose: Info & Pubs Choose: Search STIS Publication Database In the search box, insert: nsf96112 If you do not have web access, we will be happy to send you the program announcement. Please email your full address. For further background information on the HGDP, go to: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/HGDP.html (need capital letters here) There are three items at this site: -the Alghero Summary Report, a summary of the goals and planning to date of a HGDP -Frequently Asked Questions about the HGDP -the draft Model Ethical Protocol for collecting DNA samples. Please call us to discuss your proposal. Dr. Mark Weiss Dr. Lisa Brooks Program Officer Program Officer Physical Anthropology / SBER Population Biology / DEB Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Biological Sciences (703) 306-1758 (703) 306-1481 x 6438 mweiss@nsf.gov lbrooks@nsf.gov From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Jul 21 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!NSF.GOV!lbrooks From: lbrooks@NSF.GOV Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: NSF Human Genome Diversity Project Pilot Projects Date: 22 Jul 1996 16:37:37 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 44 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9606228380.AA838089459@x2relay.nsf.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The US National Science Foundation recently announced a competition for Pilot Projects for a Human Genome Diversity Project (NSF 96-112). The deadline for submission is September 30, 1996. The goal of a Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) would be to sample human diversity. In such a project, DNA samples along with socio-cultural, demographic, linguistic, historical and other data would be collected in a coordinated manner. Research still needs to be done in several areas before a HGDP could be undertaken. Proposals for pilot projects are being solicited in two areas: -Improving techniques for collecting, preserving, amplifying, and selecting DNA markers -Research on ethical and legal issues in a cross-cultural setting. The Special Competition Announcement is on the World Wide Web: Go to the NSF homepage at http://www.nsf.gov/ Choose: Info & Pubs Choose: Search STIS Publication Database In the search box, insert: nsf96112 If you do not have web access, we will be happy to send you the program announcement. Please email your full address. For further background information on the HGDP, go to: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/HGDP.html (need capital letters here) There are three items at this site: -the Alghero Summary Report, a summary of the goals and planning to date of a HGDP -Frequently Asked Questions about the HGDP -the draft Model Ethical Protocol for collecting DNA samples. Please call us to discuss your proposal. Dr. Mark Weiss Dr. Lisa Brooks Program Officer Program Officer Physical Anthropology / SBER Population Biology / DEB Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Biological Sciences (703) 306-1758 (703) 306-1481 x 6438 mweiss@nsf.gov lbrooks@nsf.gov From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Jul 22 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!NSF.GOV!lbrooks From: lbrooks@NSF.GOV Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: NSF Human Genome Diversity Project Pilot Projects Date: 23 Jul 1996 13:37:35 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 45 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The US National Science Foundation recently announced a competition for Pilot Projects for a Human Genome Diversity Project (NSF 96-112). The deadline for submission is September 30, 1996. The goal of a Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) would be to sample human diversity. In such a project, DNA samples along with socio-cultural, demographic, linguistic, historical and other data would be collected in a coordinated manner. Research still needs to be done in several areas before a HGDP could be undertaken. Proposals for pilot projects are being solicited in two areas: -Improving techniques for collecting, preserving, amplifying, and selecting DNA markers -Research on ethical and legal issues in a cross-cultural setting. The Special Competition Announcement is on the World Wide Web: Go to the NSF homepage at http://www.nsf.gov/ Choose: Info & Pubs Choose: Search STIS Publication Database In the search box, insert: nsf96112 If you do not have web access, we will be happy to send you the program announcement. Please email your full address. For further background information on the HGDP, go to: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/HGDP.html (need capital letters here) There are three items at this site: -the Alghero Summary Report, a summary of the goals and planning to date of a HGDP -Frequently Asked Questions about the HGDP -the draft Model Ethical Protocol for collecting DNA samples. Please call us to discuss your proposal. Dr. Mark Weiss Dr. Lisa Brooks Program Officer Program Officer Physical Anthropology / SBER Population Biology / DEB Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Biological Sciences (703) 306-1758 (703) 306-1481 x 6438 mweiss@nsf.gov lbrooks@nsf.gov From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Jul 26 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!thor.cmp.ilstu.edu!news From: jrlowde@ilstu.edu (Rick Lowder) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Got a minute... or two? Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 23:49:29 GMT Organization: Illinois State University-IS/Network Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <31faaafe.7456396@news.ilstu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: line008.ras.ilstu.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 If you are 18 years old or older, please take a moment to participate in our study. http://www.dave-world.net/~jrlowder/genx/Study.html We could really use your help in filling out the questionaire, it is completely anonymous. If you would like the results, please email us with "RESULTS" in the subject. Thanks, Rick & AJ From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Jul 31 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CNS.BU.EDU!cas-cns From: cas-cns@CNS.BU.EDU (Boston University - CAS/CNS) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Vison, Recognition, Action Date: 1 Aug 1996 06:29:41 -0700 Organization: Boston University - Dept. of Cognitive & Neural Systems Lines: 126 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199608011329.JAA05650@cns.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on VISION, RECOGNITION, ACTION: NEURAL MODELS OF MIND AND MACHINE May 29--31, 1997 Sponsored by the Center for Adaptive Systems and the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University with financial support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research This conference will include 21 invited lectures and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems see, understand, and act upon a changing world. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Contributed abstracts by active modelers of vision, recognition, or action in cognitive science, computational neuroscience, artificial neural networks, artificial intelligence, and neuromorphic engineering are welcome. They must be received, in English, by January 31, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be given by February 28, 1997. A meeting registration fee of $35 for regular attendees and $25 for students must accompany each Abstract. See Registration Information below for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is not accepted for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings. Each Abstract should fit on one 8 x 11" white page with 1" margins on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin each Abstract. An accompanying cover letter should include: Full title of Abstract, corresponding author and presenting author name, address, telephone, fax, and email address. Preference for oral or poster presentation should be noted. (Talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be up for a full day. Overhead, slide, and VCR facilities will be available for talks.) Abstracts which do not meet these requirements or which are submitted with insufficient funds will be returned. The original and 3 copies of each Abstract should be sent to: Neural Models of Mind and Machine, c/o Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215. The program committee will determine whether papers will be accepted in an oral or poster presentation, or rejected. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Since seating at the meeting is limited, early registration is recommended. To register, please fill out the registration form below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. If accompanied by an Abstract or if paying by check, mail to: Neural Models of Mind and Machine, c/o Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215. If paying by credit card, mail as above, or fax to (617) 353-7755, or email to cindy@cns.bu.edu. The registration fee will help to pay for a reception, 6 coffee breaks, and the meeting proceedings. STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: A limited number of fellowships for PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows are available to at least partially defray meeting travel and living costs. The deadline for applying for fellowship support is January 31, 1997. Applicants will be notifed by February 28, 1997. Each application should include the applicant's CV, including name; mailing address; email address; current student status; faculty or PhD research advisor's name, address, and email address; relevant courses and other educational data; and a list of research articles. A letter from the listed faculty or PhD advisor on offiicial institutional stationery should accompany the application and summarize how the candidate may benefit from the meeting. Students who also submit an Abstract need to include the registration fee with their Abstract. Reimbursement checks will be distributed after the meeting. Their size will be determined by student need and the availability of funds. TUTORIALS: A day of tutorials will be held on May 28. Details will follow soon. MEETING INFORMATION: For meeting updates, see the web site at http://cns-web.bu.edu/cns-meeting/. REGISTRATION FORM (Please Type or Print) Vision, Recognition, Action: Neural Models of Mind and Machine Boston University Boston, Massachusetts May 29--31, 1997 Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: Name: Affiliation: Address: City, State, Postal Code: Phone and Fax: Email: The registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, coffee breaks, and meeting proceedings. [ ] $35 Regular [ ] $25 Student Method of Payment: Enclosed is a check made payable to "Boston University". Checks must be made payable in US dollars and issued by a US correspondent bank. Each registrant is responsible for any and all bank charges. I wish to pay my fees by credit card (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only). Type of card: Name as it appears on the card: Account number: Expiration date: Signature and date: From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Jul 31 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!plains!lhorvath From: lhorvath@plains.nodak.edu (Lorine S Horvath) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: biocontrol in leafy spurge? Date: 1 Aug 1996 15:43:11 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4tqjaf$619@daily-planet.nodak.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Unto the knowledgable of the world, In the last six years, Apthona beetles have been collected and released into populations of leafy spurge as bio-control agents. The Apthona beetles do well in some populations, and not well in others. I would like to use RAPDs and RFLPs to study how the Apthona beetles affect the diversity of the spurge populations, and look for specific alleles (or linked chromosomal regions) that are selected for or against under predation pressures by the insects. My question is: how many individuals from each target population will I need to characterize to get an adequate representaion of the allele frequencies? Any help here would be greatly appreciated! Dave Horvath USDA/ARS/BRL Fargo, ND molecular biologist, not population geneticist