From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Wed Oct 18 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: IMPORTANT: BIOSCI miniFAQ Date: 19 Oct 1995 03:38:42 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 196 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199510190901.CAA10659@net.bio.net> This is a new "miniFAQ" 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/. Contents: -------- 1) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 2) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 3) How to access BIOSCI/bionet newsgroup archives. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 1) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups) and mailing lists. The same postings are distributed on both 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 newsgroups from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date. This means 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. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism. We are working on new systems to provide access to our newsgroups over the WWW. These should be available soon, probably November 1995, and will allow you to use your Web browser to look at the news postings. While this 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. 2) 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- computer daresbury.ac.uk (also known as dl.ac.uk): ------------------------------------------------- To subscribe and unsubscribe to/from the BIOSCI lists, you need to specify the full USENET newsgroup name with "bionet-news." prepended. The USENET newsgroup names are listed in the BIOSCI Information sheet on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 3) How to access BIOSCI/bionet newsgroup archives. -------------------------------------------------- Back postings of all BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups can be found on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. There are several searchable newsgroup indices at this site. E-mail users can search the BIOSCI archives by using our waismail e-mail server. For instructions send the message help to waismail@net.bio.net. Leave the Subject: line blank (anything entered on the Subject: line is ignored). 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. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Thu Oct 26 22:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!news.tcd.ie!mac01.arches.pclab.tcd.ie!user From: delormep@tcd.ie (patrice delorme) Subject: Irish 1st class Hons Grad. for PhD? Message-ID: Sender: usenet@news.tcd.ie (TCD News System ) Organization: Trinity College, Dublin 2 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 16:49:50 GMT Lines: 10 I am an Irish graduate of Zoology from Trinity College Dublin with a first class hons degree and a specialisation in parasitology who would now like to study for a PhD in the pathology/epidiemiology of a parasite of human or veterinary importance. I would love to hear from anybody out there who my be willing to supervise a new PhD or from people who could suggest who to apply to. Thank you Sean Ryan BA (Mod.) (hons) kpryan@vax1.tcd.ie p.s any responses from Europe/Australia especially welcome From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Sat Oct 28 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!GEOMED.DOM.UAB.EDU!dfreedman From: dfreedman@GEOMED.DOM.UAB.EDU ("David Freedman") Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Gorgas Course in Clinical T Date: 29 Oct 1995 12:57:18 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 48 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Subject: Time: 2:26 PM OFFICE MEMO Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical... Date: 10/29/95 The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine Given in Lima, Peru this unique tropical medicine training initiative combines an international faculty with didactic and formal bedside teaching right in the tropics. 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In addition to the complete range of common ubiquitous tropical enteric, respiratory, and viral exanthematous diseases a wide spectrum of traditional and emerging tropical infectious diseases present to the Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and its field clinics. These include malaria, yellow fever, leishmaniasis, American trypansomiasis, cyclosporiasis, brucellosis, leprosy, plague, free-living amebas, HIV-1, HTLV-1, strongyloidiasis, chancroid, viral hepatitis (A,B,C, & D), oropouche virus, bartonellosis, leptospirosis, cholera, anthrax, cysticercosis, diphyllobothriasis, paragonomiasis, fascioliasis, typhus, diphtheria, paracoccidiomycosis, rabies, echinococcosis, and chromomycosis. Further information: Mail: David O. Freedman, MD The Gorgas Memorial Institute UAB Station, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 2170 USA. Telephone: 800-UAB-MIST (US) or 205 934 2687 (from overseas). Fax: 205 933 5671 E-mail: gorgas@geomed.dom.uab.edu World Wide Web: http://medinfo.dom.uab.edu/Gorgas/Course.html (full curriculum and logistical information available at this site). URL is case-sensitive From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Sun Oct 29 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!UNLINFO.UNL.EDU!dholiday From: dholiday@UNLINFO.UNL.EDU (dan holiday) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Phylogeny Date: 29 Oct 1995 18:58:16 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 18 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9510300257.AA28874@unlinfo.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Greetings: A friend of mine is considering to attempt the construction of a cladogram of the schistosomes as part of a post-doc proposal. He has been unable to find any previously published cladograms in his literary searches in the field of phylogenetic systematics. He desires a model for use as a testable base, or hypothesis, and to gain a sense of how and if this has been approached historically. Would anyone be able to lead us to previously published work dealing with phylogenetic analysis of the family Schistosomatidae? Thank you in advance- Dan Holiday University of Nebraska at Lincoln dholiday@unlinfo.unl.edu From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Tue Oct 31 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: (Dave Johnston) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Re: Phylogeny Date: 1 Nov 1995 12:29:26 -0000 Lines: 19 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <477p76$59@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> X-POPmail-Charset: British Original-To: dholiday@UNLINFO.UNL.EDU, schisto@dl.ac.uk Hi Dan and everyone else There are quite a few papers dealing with molecular phylogenies within Schistosoma and some of these are begining to include other schistosomes (contact me if you want more details). From the morphological side of things, it may well be worth loooking at "Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Schistosomatidae." PhD thesis by Allan Christopher Carmichael, 1984, Mitchigan State University. Supervisor Committee: Donald Straney, James Edwards, John King and Jeffery Williams. To my knowledge none of this has ever appeared in press. DAJ David A. Johnston Research Fellow, Dept of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD. England tel 0171 9389297 (from outside UK: 44 171 9389297) fax 0171 9388754 (from outside UK: 44 171 9388754) email daj@nhm.ac.uk From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Tue Oct 31 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: pdz@rfhsm.ac.uk (Dr Priyal De Zoysa) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: S. japonicum GST Antibody/antiserum Date: 1 Nov 1995 13:41:47 -0000 Lines: 12 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <477ter$3nj@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> X-Sender: pdz@mailhost.rfhsm.ac.uk Original-To: schisto@dl.ac.uk Hi, David Johnston E-Mailed me with your E-mail address in response to the above query that I had sent to the Bionet. I wonder if you could help me out with providing me some Anti-GST antibody/serum for monitoring GST fusion proteins that I am planning on making very shortly. Otherwise if you could let me know from where (other than Pharmacia) to purchase some. Thanks in advance for your help, Priyal de Zoysa. From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Tue Oct 31 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: S.Barker@mailbox.uq.oz.au (Stephen Barker) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Post Doctoral Positions Available - Please circulate & pin to notice boards. Date: 1 Nov 1995 20:41:55 -0000 Lines: 52 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <478m2j$r06@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Original-To: schisto@dl.ac.uk POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS (2 POSITIONS) DEPARTMENT OF PARASITOLOGY AND CENTRE FOR MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Molecular Phylogeny I seek a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with experience in phylogenetic inference to work on projects funded by the Australian Research Council on the molecular phylogeny of ticks and flukes. Knowledge of ticks and flukes is not required but knowledge of current approaches to phylogenetic inference and expertise in molecular biology, especially PCR, cloning and nucleotide sequencing, are necessary. The successful applicant will hold the PhD degree and will be able to work independently. Funds are available for 3 years. Salary: $35,974 - $40,088 depending on experience and degree of excellence. Genome Mapping I seek a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with substantial experience in molecular biology to work on the genome of the cattle tick Boophilus microplus. Knowledge of ticks is not required but expertise in molecular biology and an interest in genomes are necessary. The successful applicant will hold the PhD degree and will be able to work independently. The main approaches to be used will be collection of ESTs (Expressed Tag Sites), Fluorescent In Situ Hybridisation (FISH) and comparative mapping. Funds are available for 6-12 months initially. Salary: $35,974 - $40,088 depending on experience and degree of excellence. Applications including the names of 3 referees should be sent to Dr Steve Barker, Department of Parasitology, The University of Queensland, 4072 ASAP but not later than 27 November 1995. People with applications that will arrive in Brisbane after 27 November should contact Steve Barker by email as soon as they decide to apply. For further information contact Dr Steve Barker, email s.barker@mailbox.uq.oz.au, ph. 07 3365 3303, fax. 07 3365 1588. Dr Stephen C. Barker, Fax: + 61 7 3365 1588 Lecturer - Molecular Genetics of Parasites, Ph: + 61 7 3365 3303/2572 Department of Parasitology & em: S.Barker@mailbox.uq.oz.au Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4072. From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Tue Oct 31 22:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!ieunet!news.tcd.ie!mac09.arches.pclab.tcd.ie!user From: kpryan@tcd.ie (Sean Ryan) Subject: Irish First Class Hons Grad for Ph.D Message-ID: Sender: usenet@news.tcd.ie (TCD News System ) Organization: Trinity College, Dublin 2 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 12:57:50 GMT Lines: 8 I am an honours graduate in Zoology from Trinity College Dublin, with a first class honours degree and a specialisation in parasitology and would now like to take research towards a Ph.D. degree on the pathology/epidiemiology of a parasite of medical/veterinary importance. If anybody out there has a place for a Ph.D. student or knows somebody who might I would appreciate it if you could e-mail me at kpryan@tcd.ie. Thanks Sean Ryan