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Thank you From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Nov 2 15:10:33 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4536F17A64; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 15:10:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA19854 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 15:10:30 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id PAA29721 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 15:10:29 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: james.o.mcinerney@may.ie (James McInerney) X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Molecular systematics Website Date: 2 Nov 1999 07:15:06 -0800 Organization: National University of Ireland Lines: 61 Distribution: world Message-ID: <381EFE22.296A8770@may.ie> Reply-To: james.o.mcinerney@may.ie To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Dear all, Martin Embley, Mark Wilkinson, Robert Hirt and myself have conspired to create a website that can be used as a teaching resource for Molecular Systematics. This has come about principally as a result of our teaching efforts in conjunction with the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and The Natural History Museum, London. This website contains lecture material, both as internet presentations and as a downloadable (?) Microsoft Powerpoint file with 344 slides. There is also a rudimentary glossary of terms that are used in the area of molecular systematics, a list of internet resources and some information about the participants, organisers and teachers on these courses. There is no restriction on the use of this material. Please feel free to download the slides and use the site as you wish. We would appreciate an email, though, just to say you have visited and taken something away. We can then keep you abreast of developments and additions. The site is currently mounted on two servers, but will soon be available as part of The Natural History Museum, London main website. It is being re-branded so that it is recognisable as a product of the work of the museum. The sites are: Brazil: http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/james/index.html Ireland: http://www.may.ie/academic/biology/jmbioinformatics.shtml and choose the link for the molecular systematics course. A portion of his course was also taught as part of this summers' EMBO-funded Bioinformatics Course (Bioinformatics: From genome sequences to protein structures) at Uppsala, Sweden: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/EMBO The site will soon be available on The Natural History Museum server. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ Please pass this email on to anybody that might conceivably be interested. If there are any problems, errors or ommissions please do not hesitate to inform us. Kindest regards, James -- Dr. James O. McInerney, Dept. Biology, Dept. Zoology, Natl. Univ. Ireland, The Natural History Museum, Maynooth, and Cromwell road, Co. Kildare, Ireland London SW7 5BD, UK. Phone +353 1 708 3860 +44 171 938 9163 Fax +353 1 708 3845 +44 171 938 9158 email james.o.mcinerney@may.ie j.mcinerney@nhm.ac.uk http://www.may.ie/academic/biology/jmbioinformatics.shtml From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Wed Nov 3 00:35:37 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id B6CAE17A58; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:35:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA23532 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:35:31 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id AAA14988 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 00:35:30 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: "bryce" X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: overpopulation Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:28:49 -0400 Organization: The Maine InternetWorks, Inc. Lines: 4 Message-ID: <7vnvel$54b$1@ruby.mint.net> X-Trace: ruby.mint.net 941588757 5259 216.227.140.193 (3 Nov 1999 00:25:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mint.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk i am a student looking for information on overpopulation for a research paper my email is bryceholmes@yahoo.com please help!!! From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Wed Nov 3 20:55:27 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1988817A59; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 20:55:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01816 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 20:55:24 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id UAA29928 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 20:55:23 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: jairo Subject: informations on concerted evolution X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Message-ID: <148dfd37.6e6d1376@usw-ex0109-070.remarq.com> Lines: 13 Bytes: 373 X-Originating-Host: 143.107.122.152 Organization: http://www.remarq.com: The World's Usenet/Discussions Start Here X-Wren-Trace: eO/K4uP6vfe8pfru+KDn8PLc5uvi5KC36eztrLevpeGxufigsP2or7K7uQ== Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 12:41:29 -0800 X-Complaints-To: wrenabuse@remarq.com X-Trace: WReNphoon4 941662324 10.0.2.70 (Wed, 03 Nov 1999 12:52:04 PST) To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hello everyone, I am a microbiology Phd student and I am interested on some information about concerted evolution (definition, mechanisms involved, examples) for a class presentation. 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Smart is Beautiful From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Nov 4 22:25:18 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id F21D417AAC; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:25:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA21947 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:25:15 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id WAA05569 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:25:14 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: "William Looker" X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Chlorella growth rate Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:20:50 -0000 Organization: Virgin Net Usenet Service Lines: 39 Message-ID: <7vt0ol$37s$1@nclient13-gui.server.virgin.net> X-Trace: nclient13-gui.server.virgin.net 941753941 3324 212.250.36.39 (4 Nov 1999 22:19:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@virgin.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk I am doing an A-level biology poject comparing the growth rates of chlorella in differnt nitrate solutions (e.g. ammonium nitrate, potasium nitrate, calcium nitrate and sodium nitrate) Does anybody have any information on the growth rate of chlorella, such as links or just a growth rate curve for chlorella. 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Error rate is proportional to wpm From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Nov 4 23:15:24 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2E30617B88; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:15:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA06434 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:15:20 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id XAA06336 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:15:18 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: Nick Goldman X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: MEETING: Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology Date: 4 Nov 1999 15:08:06 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 135 Distribution: world Message-ID: <7vt3km$6m9@net.bio.net> To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk MASAMB-X 2000 10th Annual Meeting on MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge Tuesday 4th April -- Wednesday 5th April, 2000 Scientific Organiser: Nick Goldman (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) The 10th annual meeting on Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology will be held at the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, on Tuesday 4th April and Wednesday 5th April, 2000. The meeting aims to bring together mathematicians, statisticians, biologists and computer scientists who have common research interests in the analysis of molecular biological data. Participants in the 1998 Newton Institute programme 'Biomolecular Function and Evolution in the Context of the Genome Project' are particularly encouraged to attend and to take this opportunity to present work in progress and discuss the latest issues. The meeting will follow its familiar format, with 12-15 approximately half-hour talks selected from participants' applications. These will run from early afternoon on 4th April until afternoon tea on 5th April, with ample opportunities provided for discussion. The cost of attendance at the meeting will be UKP 70 (full residential) or UKP 45 (without accommodation). Thanks to the generosity of the Newton Institute, in association with its programme 'Biomolecular Function and Evolution in the Context of the Genome Project', a number of grants will be available to support junior scientists (see attached application form). If you would like to attend the meeting, or simply receive further information, it is VITAL that you complete the attached form and return it before 17 December 1999. Further information will only be sent to REGISTERED applicants. Completed forms should be sent (preferably by e-mail) to: Tracey Andrew (t.andrew@newton.cam.ac.uk) Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH, UK For further details regarding the scientific content of the meeting, contact Nick Goldman (n.goldman@gen.cam.ac.uk), Department of Genetics, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK. Regarding the local organisation, contact Tracey Andrew (address as above). Information on the meeting will be available on the WWW via http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/masamb.html. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MASAMB-X 2000 MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Tuesday 4th April -- Wednesday 5th April, 2000 For further information please contact the Programme and Conference Secretary Tracey Andrew (t.andrew@newton.cam.ac.uk) Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EH, UK DEADLINE: 17 December 1999 Surname: Forename: Title: Professional status: Graduate Student Postdoc Tenured Staff Other Address: Telephone: Fax: E-mail (in BLOCK CAPITALS): Nationality: Date of Birth (dd/mm/yy): Sex: M/F [Required for statistical purposes only] I would like to attend the MASAMB-X 2000 meeting, and (please tick): () will pay* UKP 70 for the full residential package Full residential package includes lunch on April 4th and 5th, and evening meal and accommodation on April 4th () will pay* UKP 45 for the non-residential package Non-residential package does not include accommodation () would like to apply for a grant** of UKP 52 towards the cost of the full residential package (reduced cost: UKP 18*) () would like to apply for a grant** of UKP 35 towards the cost of the non-residential package (reduced cost: UKP 10*) It may be possible to arrange additional nights' accommodation at a cost of UKP 26 per night (*No payment required at this stage. **Please read notes below.) If applying for a grant, please give brief details of reasons: I: () would () would not like to present a talk (approx. 30 mins.) Talk title: **Grants can only be awarded in accordance with the Newton Institute's policy of benefit to the UK mathematical community. Our priority will be to support several UK-based post-graduate students in this way. Only in exceptional circumstances will we be able to support non-UK-based students. Please note that eligibility for a grant does not depend on the presentation of a talk. If funds allow, we may also be able to assist UK- or non-UK-based scientists at and above the level of post-doctoral researchers, if their attendance depends on this support. No funds are available to support travel costs. From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Wed Nov 10 18:42:50 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8814717A43; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:42:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA07226 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:42:47 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id SAA00044 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:42:46 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: faramarz@CNS.BU.EDU ("Faramarz Valafar") X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Graduate Program in The Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) at Boston University Date: 10 Nov 1999 10:40:09 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 590 Distribution: world Message-ID: To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk PLEASE POST ******************************************************************* GRADUATE TRAINING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CNS) AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY ******************************************************************* The Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems offers comprehensive graduate training in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of technological problems. Applications for Fall 2000 admission and financial aid are now being accepted for both the MA and PhD degree programs. To obtain a brochure describing the CNS Program and a set of application materials, write, telephone, or fax: DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 617/353-9481 (phone) 617/353-7755 (fax) or send via e-mail your full name and mailing address to the attention of Mr. Robin Amos at: inquiries@cns.bu.edu Applications for admission and financial aid should be received by the Graduate School Admissions Office no later than January 15. Late applications will be considered until May 1; after that date applications will be considered only as special cases. Applicants are required to submit undergraduate (and, if applicable, graduate) transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. The Advanced Test should be in the candidate's area of departmental specialization. GRE scores may be waived for MA candidates and, in exceptional cases, for PhD candidates, but absence of these scores will decrease an applicant's chances for admission and financial aid. Non-degree students may also enroll in CNS courses on a part-time basis. Stephen Grossberg, Chairman Gail A. Carpenter, Director of Graduate Studies Description of the CNS Department: The Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) provides advanced training and research experience for graduate students interested in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of outstanding technological problems. Students are trained in a broad range of areas concerning computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and neuromorphic systems, including the brain mechanisms of vision and visual object recognition; audition, speech, and language understanding; recognition, learning, categorization, and long-term memory; cognitive information processing; self-organization and development; navigation, planning, and spatial orientation; cooperative and competitive network dynamics and short-term memory; reinforcement and motivation; attention; adaptive sensory-motor control and robotics; biological rhythms; consciousness; mental disorders; and the mathematical and computational methods needed to support advanced modeling research and applications. The CNS Department awards MA, PhD, and BA/MA degrees. The CNS Department embodies a number of unique features. It has developed a curriculum that consists of eighteen interdisciplinary graduate courses, each of which integrates the psychological, neurobiological, mathematical, and computational information needed to theoretically investigate fundamental issues concerning mind and brain processes and the applications of neural networks to technology. Additional advanced courses, including research apprenticeship and seminar courses, are also offered. Each course is typically taught once a week in the afternoon or evening to make the program available to qualified students, including working professionals, throughout the Boston area. Students develop a coherent area of expertise by designing a program that includes courses in areas such as biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and psychology, in addition to courses in the CNS curriculum. The CNS Department interacts with colleagues in several Boston University research centers or groups, and with Boston-area scientists collaborating with these centers. The unit most closely linked to the department is the Center for Adaptive Systems. Students interested in neural network hardware can work with researchers in CNS, at the College of Engineering, and at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. Other research resources include distinguished research groups in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropharmacology across the Boston University Charles River Campus and Medical School; in sensory robotics, biomedical engineering, computer and systems engineering, and neuromuscular research within the College of Engineering; in dynamical systems within the Mathematics Department; in theoretical computer science within the Computer Science Department; and in biophysics and computational physics within the Physics Department. Key colleagues in these units hold appointments in CNS. In addition to its basic research and training program, the department conducts a seminar series, as well as conferences and symposia, which bring together distinguished scientists from both experimental, theoretical, and applied disciplines. The department is housed in its own new four-story building which includes ample space for faculty and student offices and laboratories (computational neuroscience, visual psychophysics, psychoacoustics, speech and language, sensory-motor control, neurobotics, computer vision), as well as an auditorium, classroom and seminar rooms, a library, and a faculty-student lounge. The department has a powerful computer network for carrying out large-scale simulations of behavioral and brain models. Below are listed departmental faculty, courses and labs. FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS AND CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS Jelle Atema Professor of Biology Director, Boston University Marine Program (BUMP) PhD, University of Michigan Sensory physiology and behavior. Aijaz Baloch Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Modeling Engineer, Nestor, Inc. PhD, Electrical Engineering, Boston University Visual motion perception, computational vision, adaptive control, and financial fraud detection. Helen Barbas Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine PhD, Physiology/Neurophysiology, McGill University Organization of the prefrontal cortex, evolution of the neocortex. Jacob Beck Research Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Psychology, Cornell University Visual perception, psychophysics, computational models of vision. Daniel H. Bullock Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, and Psychology PhD, Experimental Psychology, Stanford University Sensory-motor performance and learning, voluntary control of action, serial order and timing, cognitive development. Gail A. Carpenter Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Mathematics Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison Learning and memory, synaptic processes, pattern recognition, remote sensing, medical database analysis, machine learning, differential equations. Laird Cermak Director, Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Medicine Professor of Occupational Therapy, Sargent College PhD, Ohio State University Memory disorders. Michael A. Cohen Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Computer Science PhD, Psychology, Harvard University Speech and language processing, measurement theory, neural modeling, dynamical systems, cardiovascular oscillations physiology and time series. H. Steven Colburn Professor of Biomedical Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Audition, binaural interaction, auditory virtual environments, signal processing models of hearing. Howard Eichenbaum Professor of Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Michigan Neurophysiological studies of how the hippocampal system mediates declarative memory. William D. Eldred III Professor of Biology PhD, University of Colorado, Health Science Center Visual neuralbiology. Paolo Gaudiano Research Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Computational and neural models of robotics, vision, adaptive sensory-motor control, and behavioral neurobiology. Jean Berko Gleason Professor of Psychology PhD, Harvard University Psycholinguistics. Sucharita Gopal Associate Professor of Geography PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara Neural networks, computational modeling of behavior, geographical information systems, fuzzy sets, and spatial cognition. Stephen Grossberg Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Director, Center for Adaptive Systems PhD, Mathematics, Rockefeller University Vision, audition, language, learning and memory, reward and motivation, cognition, development, sensory-motor control, mental disorders, applications. Frank Guenther Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University MSE, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University Speech production, speech perception, biological sensory-motor control and functional brain imaging. Catherine L. Harris Assistant Professor of Psychology PhD, Cognitive Science and Psychology, University of California at San Diego Visual word recognition, psycholinguistics, cognitive semantics, second language acquisition, computational models of cognition. Michael E. Hasselmo Associate Professor of Psychology Director of Graduate Studies, Psychology Department PhD, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Electrophysiological studies of neuromodulatory effects in cortical structures, network biophysical simulations of memory function in hippocampus and piriform cortex, behavioral studies of amnestic drugs. Thomas G. Kincaid Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Signal and image processing, neural networks, non-destructive testing. Mark Kon Professor of Mathematics PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Neural network theory, complexity theory, wavelet theory, mathematical physics. Nancy Kopell Professor of Mathematics PhD, Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley Dynamics of networks of neurons. Jacqueline A. Liederman Associate Professor of Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Rochester Dynamics of interhemispheric cooperation; prenatal correlates of neurodevelopmental disorders. Ennio Mingolla Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Connecticut Visual perception, mathematical modeling of visual processes. Joseph Perkell Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Research Scientist, Research Lab of Electronics and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Motor control of speech production. Alan Peters Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine PhD, Zoology, Bristol University, United Kingdom Organization of neurons in the cerebral cortex; effects of aging on the primate brain; fine structure of the nervous system. Andrzej Przybyszewski Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester PhD, Warsaw Medical Academy Electrophysiology of the primate visual system, mathematical and computer modeling of the neuronal networks in the visual system. Adam Reeves Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University PhD, Psychology, City University of New York Psychophysics, cognitive psychology, vision. Mark Rubin Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Physics, University of Chicago Pattern recognition; artificial and biological vision. Michele Rucci Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy Vision, sensory-motor control and learning, and computational neuroscience. Elliot Saltzman Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, Sargent College Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Psychology and Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Minnesota Modeling and experimental studies of human sensorimotor control and coordination of the limbs and speech articulators, focusing on issues of timing in skilled activities. Robert Savoy Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Scientist, Rowland Institute for Science Experimental Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital PhD, Experimental Psychology, Harvard University Computational neuroscience; visual psychophysics of color, form, and motion perception. Teaching about functional MRI and other brain mapping methods. Eric Schwartz Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering; and Anatomy and Neurobiology PhD, High Energy Physics, Columbia University Computational neuroscience, machine vision, neuroanatomy, neural modeling. Robert Sekuler Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, BioMolecular Engineering Research Center Frances and Louis H. Salvage Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University Consultant in neurosurgery, Boston Children's Hospital PhD, Psychology, Brown University Visual motion, brain imaging, relation of visual perception, memory, and movement. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Psychoacoustics, audition, auditory localization, binaural hearing, sensorimotor adaptation, mathematical models of human performance. Malvin Carl Teich Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Physics PhD, Cornell University Quantum optics and imaging, photonics, wavelets and fractal stochastic processes, biological signal processing and information transmission. Lucia Vaina Professor of Biomedical Engineering Research Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine PhD, Sorbonne (France); Dres Science, National Politechnique Institute, Toulouse (France) Computational visual neuroscience, biological and computational learning, functional and structural neuroimaging. Faramarz Valafar Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Bioinformatics, adaptive systems (artificial neural networks), data mining and modeling in medicine, medical decision making, pattern recognition and signal processing in biomedicine, biochemistry, and glycoscience. Takeo Watanabe Associate Professor of Psychology PhD, Behavioral Sciences, University of Tokyo Perception of objects and motion and effects of attention on perception using psychophysics and brain imaging (f-MRI). Allen Waxman Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Staff Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory PhD, Astrophysics, University of Chicago Visual system modeling, multisensor fusion, image mining, parallel computing, and advanced visualization. James Williamson Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Pattern recognition; self-organization and topographic maps; perceptual grouping. Jeremy Wolfe Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Psychophysicist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Surgery Dept. Director of Psychophysical Studies, Center for Clinical Cataract Research PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visual attention, preattentive and attentive object representation. Curtis Woodcock Professor of Geography Director, Geographic Applications, Center for Remote Sensing PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara Biophysical remote sensing, particularly of forests and natural vegetation, canopy reflectance models and their inversion, spatial modeling, and change detection; biogeography; spatial analysis; geographic information systems; digital image processing. CNS DEPARTMENT COURSE OFFERINGS CAS CN500 Computational Methods in Cognitive and Neural Systems CAS CN510 Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling I CAS CN520 Principles and Methods of Cognitive and Neural Modeling II CAS CN530 Neural and Computational Models of Vision CAS CN540 Neural and Computational Models of Adaptive Movement Planning and Control CAS CN550 Neural and Computational Models of Recognition, Memory and Attention CAS CN560 Neural and Computational Models of Speech Perception and Production CAS CN570 Neural and Computational Models of Conditioning, Reinforcement, Motivation and Rhythm CAS CN580 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience GRS CN700 Computational and Mathematical Methods in Neural Modeling GRS CN710 Advanced Topics in Neural Modeling GRS CN720 Neural and Computational Models of Planning and Temporal Structure in Behavior GRS CN730 Models of Visual Perception GRS CN740 Topics in Sensory-Motor Control GRS CN760 Topics in Speech Perception and Recognition GRS CN780 Topics in Computational Neuroscience GRS CN810 Topics in Cognitive and Neural Systems: Visual Event Perception GRS CN811 Topics in Cognitive and Neural Systems: Visual Perception GRS CN911,912 Research in Neural Networks for Adaptive Pattern Recognition GRS CN915,916 Research in Neural Networks for Vision and Image Processing GRS CN921,922 Research in Neural Networks for Speech and Language Processing GRS CN925,926 Research in Neural Networks for Adaptive Sensory-Motor Planning and Control GRS CN931,932 Research in Neural Networks for Conditioning and Reinforcement Learning GRS CN935,936 Research in Neural Networks for Cognitive Information Processing GRS CN941,942 Research in Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Networks GRS CN945,946 Research in Technological Applications of Neural Networks GRS CN951,952 Research in Hardware Implementations of Neural Networks CNS students also take a wide variety of courses in related departments. In addition, students participate in a weekly colloquium series, an informal lecture series, and student-run special interest groups, and attend lectures and meetings throughout the Boston area; and advanced students work in small research groups. LABORATORY AND COMPUTER FACILITIES The department is funded by fellowships, grants, and contracts from federal agencies and private foundations that support research in life sciences, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and engineering. Facilities include laboratories for experimental research and computational modeling in visual perception; audition, speech and language processing; and sensory-motor control and robotics. Data analysis and numerical simulations are carried out on a state-of-the-art computer network comprised of Sun workstations, Silicon Graphics workstations, Macintoshes, and PCs. A PC farm running Linix operating systems is available as a distributed computational environment. All students have access to PCs or UNIX workstation consoles, a network of SGI machines, and standard modeling and mathematical simulation packages such as Mathematica, VisSim, Khoros, and Matlab. The department maintains a core collection of books and journals, and has access both to the Boston University libraries and to the many other collections of the Boston Library Consortium. In addition, several specialized facilities and software are available for use. These include: Computer Vision/Computational Neuroscience Laboratory The Computer Vision/Computational Neuroscience Lab is comprised of an electronics workshop, including a surface-mount workstation, PCD fabrication tools, and an Alterra EPLD design system; a light machine shop; an active vision lab including actuators and video hardware; and systems for computer aided neuroanatomy and application of computer graphics and image processing to brain sections and MRI images. Neurobotics Laboratory The Neurobotics Lab utilizes wheeled mobile robots to study potential applications of neural networks in several areas, including adaptive dynamics and kinematics, obstacle avoidance, path planning and navigation, visual object recognition, and conditioning and motivation. The lab currently has three Pioneer robots equipped with sonar and visual sensors; one B-14 robot with a moveable camera, sonars, infrared, and bump sensors; and two Khepera miniature robots with infrared proximity detectors. Psychoacoustics Laboratory The Psychoacoustics Lab houses a newly installed, 8 ft. % 8 ft. sound-proof booth. The laboratory is extensively equipped to perform both traditional psychoacoustic experiments and experiments using interactive auditory virtual-reality stimuli. The major equipment dedicated to the psychoacoustics laboratory includes two Pentium-based personal computers; two Power-PC-based Macintosh computers; a 50-MHz array processor capable of generating auditory stimuli in real time; programmable attenuators; analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters; a real-time head tracking system; a special-purpose, signal-processing hardware system capable of generating "spatialized" stereo auditory signals in real time; a two-channel oscilloscope; a two-channel spectrum analyzer; various cables, headphones, and other miscellaneous electronics equipment; and software for signal generation, experimental control, data analysis, and word processing. Sensory-Motor Control Laboratory The Sensory-Motor Control Lab supports experimental studies of motor kinematics. An infrared WatSmart system allows measurement of large-scale movements, and a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet allows studies of handwriting and other fine-scale movements. Equipment includes a 40-inch monitor that allows computer display of animations generated by an SGI workstation or a Pentium Pro (Windows NT) workstation. A second major component is a helmet-mounted, video-based, eye-head tracking system (ISCAN Corp, 1997). The latter's camera samples eye position at 240Hz and also allows reconstruction of what subjects are attending to as they freely scan a scene under normal lighting. Thus the system affords a wide range of visuo-motor studies. Speech and Language Laboratory The Speech and Language Lab includes facilities for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog software conversion. Ariel equipment allows reliable synthesis and playback of speech waveforms. An Entropic signal processing package provides facilities for detailed analysis, filtering, spectral construction, and formant tracking of the speech waveform. Various large databases, such as TIMIT and TIdigits, are available for testing algorithms of speech recognition. For high speed processing, supercomputer facilities speed filtering and data analysis. Visual Psychophysics Laboratory The Visual Psychophysics Lab occupies an 800-square-foot suite, including three dedicated rooms for data collection, and houses a variety of computer controlled display platforms, including Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Onyx RE2, SGI Indigo2 High Impact, SGI Indigo2 Extreme, Power Computing (Macintosh compatible) PowerTower Pro 225, and Macintosh 7100/66 workstations. Ancillary resources for visual psychophysics include a computer-controlled video camera, stereo viewing glasses, prisms, a photometer, and a variety of display-generation, data-collection, and data-analysis software. Affiliated Laboratories Affiliated CAS/CNS faculty have additional laboratories ranging from visual and auditory psychophysics and neurophysiology, anatomy, and neuropsychology to engineering and chip design. These facilities are used in the context of faculty/student collaborations. ******************************************************************* DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS GRADUATE TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617/353-9481 Fax: 617/353-7755 Email: inquiries@cns.bu.edu Web: http://www.cns.bu.edu/ ******************************************************************* From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Nov 11 10:10:00 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id B2A3517ABD; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:09:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19960 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:09:54 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id KAA19296 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:09:53 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: biohelp@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (BIOSCI Administrator) X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Nov 1999 02:00:13 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 239 Distribution: world Message-ID: <199911111000.CAA19285@net.bio.net> To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk (LAST REVISION: 14-AUG-99) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. 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. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- All BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. C) In the body of your message put one or more of the following commands with an "end" command on the last line, e.g., subscribe methods unsubscribe methods end Do NOT put your e-mail address or other text on these lines. The server only allows you to cancel your subscription if the address on your mail header matches the address on our mailing list. Please ask for help at biosci-help@net.bio.net if your address has changed, e.g., if you know you are on the list but the server tells you that you are not a member. Users in Europe, Africa, and Central Asia who use the BIOSCI node at -------------------------------------------------------------------- the UK-HGMP-Resource Centre (known as hgmp.mrc.ac.uk): ----------------------------------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to majordomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. C) In the body of your message put one or more of the following commands with an "end" command on the last line, e.g., subscribe methods unsubscribe methods end Please ask for help at biosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk if your address has changed, e.g., if you know you are on the list but the server tells you that you are not a member. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Nov 11 13:10:19 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 54C8617A63; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:10:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06158 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:10:14 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id NAA21511 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:10:13 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: jkp@WORLD.STD.COM (John K Pearce) X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Nov 1999 05:02:42 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 245 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <199911111000.CAA19285@net.bio.net> To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk On 11 Nov 1999, BIOSCI Administrator wrote: > > (LAST REVISION: 14-AUG-99) > > This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up > the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked > Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL > http://www.bio.net/. > > If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other > documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail > queries sent to > > biosci-help@net.bio.net > > We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and > mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet > information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post > those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. > > > Contents: > -------- > 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! > > 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. > > 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. > > 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. > > 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. > > > 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! > ------------------------------ > BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now > operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our > Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your > time to help us serve you. > > You can do two important things which will take very little time for > you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. > > First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the > archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as > described in item #1 below. 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. > > > 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. > -------------------------------------------------------- > All BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World > Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply > publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages > through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. > Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI > home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents > database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in > another item further below. > > > 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. > ------------------------------------------------------- > BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), > mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. > The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small > number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it > is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out > to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of > newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising > are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net > terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many > spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the > mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses > and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. > > What should you do personally if you get junk mail? > --------------------------------------------------- > Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a > protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often > disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you > really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by > sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the > address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. > > What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? > ---------------------------------------------------- > The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. > If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. > Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the > spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists > completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the > time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up > software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an > address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. > This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass > it on, say about 1 min. per message. > > Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible > for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail > addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is > available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being > hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader > for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. > Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the > newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your > complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has > to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems > directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. > > We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells > us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator > is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this > entails only a few minutes of work each day. > > Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings > on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for > determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, > but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if > the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over > the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not > stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you > yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of > your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news > systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new > newsgroups and recent postings. > > > 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on > subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the > newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone > on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper > procedures below. > > Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at > http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the > METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: > > Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > node at computer net.bio.net: > ---------------------------- > > A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For > the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is > methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to > the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with > the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. > > B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to > biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup > posting addresses! 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Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it > will be ignored. > > C) In the body of your message put one or more of the following > commands with an "end" command on the last line, e.g., > > subscribe methods > unsubscribe methods > end > > Please ask for help at biosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk if your address has > changed, e.g., if you know you are on the list but the server tells > you that you are not a member. > > > 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research > interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have > not already done so. > > You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL > http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. > > The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is > http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can > reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user > directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a > user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. > > Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your > address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited > personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to > revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have > resources to edit old forms. > > > > > > From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Nov 11 17:03:06 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4BCDD17A5B; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:03:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23221 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:03:02 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id RAA24442 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:03:01 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: howardcurt@hotmail.com X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio,alt.bio,alt.biology,bionet.biology Subject: 100 Most Important Science Books Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:46:44 GMT Organization: no organization Lines: 369 Message-ID: <80ertj$14k$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Nov 11 16:46:44 1999 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.03 [en] (Win95; I) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x42.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 146.203.100.194 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDcthoward6397 To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk I found a list of the 100 Most Important Science Books of the 2nd Millennium somewhere on the Internet. It is attached below. I thought it would be interesting for this discussion group to comment on the list. Some of the books are on biology. I also cannot find the original URL address; if someone knows it, please e-mail me. --Curt --------------------------------------------------------------- The 100 Most Important Science Books of the 2nd Millennium 1999 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 80th Edition (for its extensive summary of physics and chemistry) 1999 The Bible According to Einstein (for its comprehensive presentation of current scientific knowledge for the lay person) 1988 A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking (for its presentation of cosmology and astrophysics for the lay person) 1985 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman (for the author's contribution to the quantum theory of electromagnetism) 1982 Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais (as a tribute to Albert Einstein) 1981 The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (as a tribute to the author for presenting paleontology to the lay person) 1978 On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (for its popularization of sociobiology) 1977 The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan (for presenting science to the general public) 1968 The Double Helix by James Dewey Watson (as a tribute to the author for his contribution to microbiology) 1965 The Feynman Lectures on Physics (as a tribute to the author and his service as an educator) 1953-1979 The Collected Works of C.G. Jung (for their contribution to psychology) 1947 One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow (for its popularization of science) 1939 The Nature of the Chemical Bond by Linus Carl Pauling (for its contribution to chemistry) 1937 Madame Curie by Ève Curie (as a tribute to the woman who won the Nobel prize twice) 1937 La physique nouvelle et les quanta (The New Physics and Quanta) by Louis de Broglie (for its contribution to quantum mechanics) 1937 Genetics and the Origin of Species by Theodosius Dobzhansky (for its contribution to genetics and evolution) 1936 The Realm of the Nebulae by Edwin Powell Hubble (for its contribution to astronomy) 1933 The Expanding Universe by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (for its presentation of astrophysics to the lay person) 1932-1933 Introduction to Theoretical Physics by Max Planck (as a tribute to the author for his contributions to physics) 1932 The Causes of Evolution by J.B.S. Haldane (for its contribution to genetics and evolution) 1930 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Paul Dirac (for its contribution to quantum mechanics) 1929 The Universe Around Us by Sir James Jeans (for its popularization of cosmology) 1928 Principien der Quantentheorie (Principles of the Quantum Theory) by Werner Karl Heisenberg (for its contribution to quantum mechanics) 1927 Abhandlungen zur Wellenmechanik (Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics) by Erwin Schrodinger (for their contribution to quantum mechanics) 1922 Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution by Niels Bohr (for its contribution to quantum mechanics) 1922 The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein (for popularizing relativity) 1915 Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (The Origin of Continents and Oceans) by Alfred Wegener (for its contribution to geology) 1910 Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse (A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis) by Sigmund Freud (for its contribution to psychoanalysis) 1904 Radio-activity by Ernest Rutherford (for its contribution to nuclear physics) 1900 Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams) by Sigmund Freud (for its contribution to psychoanalysis) 1899 Principles of Mechanics by Heinrich R. Hertz (for its contribution to mechanics) 1893 Electric Waves by Heinrich R. Hertz (for its contribution to electromagnetic waves) 1892-1899 Les méthods nouvelle de la méchanique celeste (New Methods for Celestial Mechanics) by Henri Poincare (for its contribution to classical mechanics) 1890 The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (for Maxwell's contribution to physics) 1885-1909 Das Antlitz der Erde (The Face of Earth) by Eduard Suess (for its contribution to geology) 1884-1887 The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule (for Joule's contribution to physics) 1882-1911 Mathematical and Physical Papers by Baron William Thomson Kelvin (for Kelvin's contribution to physics) 1876-1894 Vorlesungen über mathematische Physik (Lectures on Mathematical Physics) by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (for its contribution to physics) 1873 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (for its contribution to electromagnetism) 1871 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (for its contribution to the theory of evolution) 1868-1870 The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (for its contribution to chemistry) 1868 Lehrbuch der Botanik (Textbook of Botany) by Julius von Sachs (for its contribution to botany) 1867 Handbuch der physiologischen optik (Handbook of Physiological Optics) by Hermann von Helmholtz (for its contribution to biophysics) 1866 Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden (Experiments in Plant Hybridization) by Gregor Johann Mendel (for its contribution to genetics) 1863 Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell (for its contribution to evolution) 1863 Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature by Thomas Henry Huxley (for its contribution to evolution) 1859 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (for its contribution to the theory of evolution) 1859 Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics by Michael Faraday (for its contributions to physics and chemistry) 1845-1862 Kosmos (Cosmos) by Alexander von Humboldt (for its contribution to natural science) 1839-1855 Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday (for Faraday's contributions to electromagnetism) 1839 Mikroskopische untersuchungen über die übereinstimmung in der struktur und dem wachstume der tiere und pflanzen (Microscopic Researches into Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants) by Theodor Schwann (for its contribution to biology) 1833-1846 Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals by Sir Richard Owen (for its contribution to paleontology) 1830-1833 Principles of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell (for its contribution to geology) 1824 Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire) by Sadi Nicolas Léonard Carnot (for its contribution to thermodynamics) 1822 Recueil d'observations électro-dynamiques (Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena) by André Marie Ampère (for its contribution to electromagnetism) 1817 Le Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation (The Animal Kingdom, Distributed According to Its Organization) by Georges Cuvier (for its contribution to paleontology) 1815-1822 Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres (Natural History of Invertebrate Animals) by Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (for its contribution to paleontology) 1811 Traité de mécanique (Treatise on Mechanics) by Siméon Denis Poisson (for its contribution to classical mechanics) 1810 Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen by Robert Brown (contribution to botany) 1809 Philosophie zoologique (Zoological Philosophy) by Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (for its contribution to paleontology) 1808-1827 A New System of Chemical Philosophy by John Dalton (for its contributions to chemistry and atomic theory) 1802 Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth by John Playfair (for its clarification of Hutton's work on geology) 1801-1805 Leçons d'anatomie comparée (Lessons on Comparative Anatomy) by Georges Cuvier (for its contribution to natural history) 1801 Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou table général des classes (System of Invertebrate Animals, or General Table of Classes) by Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (for its contribution to evolution and paleontology) 1799-1825 Traité de mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics) by Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace (for its contribution to solar system astronomy) 1795 Theory of the Earth by James Hutton (for its contribution to geology) 1794-1976 Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life by Robert Waring Darwin (for its contribution to evolution) 1793 Meteorological Observations and Essays by John Dalton (for its contribution to physics and chemistry) 1789 Traité élémentaire de chimie (Elementary Treatise on Chemistry) by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (for its contribution to chemistry) 1788 Mecanique analytique (Analytical Mechanics) by Joseph Louis Lagrange (for its contribution to classical mechanics) 1777 Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer (Chemical Observations and Experiments on Air and Fire) by Carl Wilhelm Scheele (for its contribution to chemistry) 1774-1786 Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley (for its contribution to chemistry) 1753 Species Plantarum by Carolus Linnaeus (for its contribution to taxonomy) 1751 Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin (for its contribution to the understanding of electricity) 1738 Hydrodynamica (Hydrodynamics) by Daniel Bernoulli (for its contribution to fluid dynamics) 1736-1737 Mechanica (Mechanics) by Leonhard Euler (for its contribution to classical mechanics) 1735-1758 Systema Naturae by Carolus Linnaeus (for its contribution to taxonomy) 1705 A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets by Edmond Halley (for its contribution to the solar system) 1704 Opticks (Optics) by Isaac Newton (for its contribution to the understanding of light) 1687 Philosohiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Isaac Newton (for its contribution to classical mechanics) 1682 Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus (On the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animals) by William Harvey (for its contribution to biology) 1678-1690 Traité de la Lumière (Treatise on Light) by Christiaan Huygens (for its contribution to optics) 1673 Horologium Oscillatorium by Christiaan Huygens (for its contribution to mechanics) 1665 Micrographia by Robert Hooke (for its contribution to microbiology) 1661 The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle (for its contribution to chemistry) 1638 Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei (for its contributions to physics) 1632 Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican) by Galileo Galilei (for popularizing the truths about the solar system) 1620 Novum Organum (also known as Instauratio Magna) (The New Tool) by Francis Bacon (for its contribution to the scientific method) 1619 Concerning the Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler (for its contributions to solar system astronomy) 1610 Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger) by Galileo Galilei (for its contributions to the understanding of the solar system) 1609 Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler (for its contributions to solar system astronomy) 1602 Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata (Exercises Toward a Restored Astronomy) by Tycho Brahe (for its contributions to astronomy) 1600 De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet, Magnetic Bodies, and the Great Magnet of the Earth) by William Gilbert (for its contribution to magnetism) 1598 Astronomiae instauratae mechanica by Tycho Brahe (for its contributions to experimental astronomy) 1543 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi (Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs) by Nicolaus Copernicus (for its contributions to solar system astronomy) 1543 De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (also known as Fabrica) (On the Structure of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius (for its contribution to biology) 1482-1519 Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci (for their contribution to science) 13th Century De luce (On light) by Robert Grosseteste (for its contribution to the understanding of light) 1269 Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete (Letter on the Magnet of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foucaucourt, Soldier) by Petrus Peregrinus (for its contribution to magnetism) 1268(?) 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This well written and thought-provoking story is entertaining and an excellent read. This intriguing and suspenseful work of fiction may well turn out to be fact. Highly recommended to anyone concerned about the ability of our planet to sustain an ever-growing human population. -- -- The Tide Turners is a fictional account of a small group of concerned individuals who realize that the primary problem facing humanity and the planet as a whole is continued growth of human population. It is the story of a back-to-the-earth physicist who gradually formulates and executes a plan that will help mankind painlessly reduce their future growth to a significant extent, thereby giving nature a reprieve and humanity a second chance. This is a story of "ordinary people doing an extraordinary thing". The story begins in Australia on a small farm on the Queensland coast with a small group of people living in a self-sufficient lifestyle. 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This book is well-written, thought-provoking, entertaining and an excellent read -- highly recommended to anyone concerned with the ability of our planet to sustain an ever-growing human population. -- Fred Elbel (who has no financial inolvement with this book) Additional reviews: < http://www.mopoke.com.au/3treadu.htm > Books and videos on overpopulation and sutainability: < http://www.ecofuture.org/ecofuture/pop/books.html > -- Fred Elbel frelbel@N0SPAMcsn.net From owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Nov 30 20:15:26 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pop-bio-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 323C917A8B; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:15:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA06153 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:15:21 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id UAA09018 for pop-bio-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:15:18 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: pkotanen@wiznet.ca (Peter Kotanen) X-Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: faculty jobs in ecology/evolution - fairbanks Message-ID: X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.4 Lines: 41 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:07:02 GMT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. To: pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk TWO FACULTY POSITIONS IN BIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS The Institute of Arctic Biology and the Department of Biology and Wildlife invite applications for two tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level available 15 August 2000. Successful candidates will be expected to be effective in graduate student training and to have a serious commitment to undergraduate teaching. A PhD degree is required, and previous postdoctoral and teaching experiences are preferred. AQUATIC ECOLOGY. We seek applicants with the ability to develop externally funded research programs in aquatic ecology of streams, lakes or wetlands. Research opportunities include collaborative research programs in ecology (including the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research program), fisheries, and wetlands ecology. Research expertise in land-water interactions, aquatic biogeochemistry, food webs, or aquatic habitat conservation is of particular interest. Teaching duties of two courses per year could include limnology plus a graduate course in the applicant's specialty, or other undergraduate courses such as general ecology and invertebrate zoology. PLANT ECOLOGY/EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. We seek applicants with the ability to develop externally funded research programs in plant ecology and/or plant evolutionary biology. We wish to fill gaps between established research programs in ecosystem ecology, plant physiological ecology, and systematics. Research facilities include a modern greenhouse complex, an automated DNA sequencing facility, an access to pristine boreal and tundra plant communities. Teaching duties of two courses per year could include introductory botany, plant ecology, plant systematics, biogeography, or evolution, and a graduate course in the applicant's specialty. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, statements of teaching philosophy and research interests, representative reprints, and solicit at least three letters of recommendation to be postmarked prior to 1 January, 2000 to: Stuart Chapin, Chair of Aquatic Ecology Search, or Kent Schwaegerle, Chair of Botany Search, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775. Further information about the University and other open academic positions can be found at http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/. We encourage applications from women, under-represented minorities, and academic couples. The University of Alaska is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.