From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Sun Mar 03 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!henry From: henry@next.duq.edu (Steve Henry) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Test of tin Date: 4 Mar 1996 13:54:22 GMT Organization: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 1 Message-ID: <4hesme$s4g@godot.cc.duq.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: irc.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] In this From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Mon Mar 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!uni-duesseldorf.de!schuessl From: schuessl@uni-duesseldorf.de (Peter Schuessler) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: RNA editing Date: 12 Mar 1996 07:35:12 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 19 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199603121534.HAA08240@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net hallo out there, have anybody of the schisto community knowledge of RNA editing in trematodes? thanks, --------------------------------------------- | Peter Schuessler | | Dep.: Genetic Parasitology | | Institute for Genetic | | Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf | | Universitaetsstr.1 | | D-40225 Duesseldorf | | Germany | | | | Tel: ++49-(0)211-811-2408 | | Fax: ++49-(0)211-811-2333 | | e-mail: schuessl@uni-duesseldorf.de | --------------------------------------------- From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Mon Mar 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!PARASITE.UCSF.EDU!jmck From: jmck@PARASITE.UCSF.EDU (Jim McKerrow) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: S.japonicum library Date: 12 Mar 1996 11:53:45 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 4 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199603121951.LAA05620@parasite.ucsf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Does anyone have an S.japonicum GENOMIC library that I could get a sample of? I want to clone the homologue of the cercarial protease that I have sequenced from S.hematobium and S.mansoni. I can't use an adult cDNA because it is only expressed in sporocyst. Thanks, Jim McKerrow From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Wed Mar 13 22:00:00 1996 Newsgroups: bionet.jobs,bionet.jobs.wanted,bionet.organisms.pseudomonas,bionet.organisms.schistosoma,bionet.parasitology,sci.bio,sci.bio.entomology,sci.bio.entomology.misc,sci.bio.misc,sci.med,sci.med.diseases.als,sci.med.diseases.lyme,sci.med.immunology,sci.research,sci.research.careers,soc.college.admissions,soc.college.grad,soc.college.gradinfo Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.tcd.ie!mac07.arches.pclab.tcd.ie!user From: kpryan@vax1.tcd.ie (Sean Ryan) Subject: Irish First Class Hons. Parasitology Grad. for Ph.D. Message-ID: Sender: usenet@news.tcd.ie (TCD News System ) Organization: Trinity College, Dublin 2 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:20:15 GMT Lines: 11 Xref: biosci bionet.jobs.wanted:5002 bionet.organisms.pseudomonas:86 bionet.organisms.schistosoma:95 bionet.parasitology:1469 sci.bio.entomology.misc:1961 sci.bio.misc:2486 sci.med:114926 sci.med.diseases.als:167 sci.med.diseases.lyme:3346 sci.med.immunology:5510 sci.research:8298 sci.research.careers:9145 soc.college.admissions:2527 soc.college.grad:10675 soc.college.gradinfo:8775 I am a graduate of zoology from Trinity Colleg Dublin with a first class hons degree and a specialisation in Parasitology and am now looking for a suitable Ph.D. subject involving the epidemiology/pathology of a parasite(s) of medical/veterinary importance. If anybody has a place for a Ph.D. student or knows of someone who has, I would appreciate an e-mail to kpryan@vax1.tcd.ie thanks.. ps replies from Australia/Europe especially welcome. From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Thu Mar 14 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!greveld From: greveld@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de ("Dr. Christoph Grevelding") Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Parziquantel Date: 15 Mar 1996 00:37:16 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 64 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199603150836.AAA10479@net.bio.net> Reply-To: "Dr. Christoph Grevelding" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I found this message from M.Reich in the tdr-scientists newsgroup and think that it might be of interest to our newsgroup, too. Christoph Grevelding Forwarded message: A new report is available on policy issues related to Praziquantel, and is summarized below. The report can be obtained on-line from the World Wide Web, at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/takemi/takhmpg.html INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR TROPICAL DISEASE TREATMENTS: EXPERIENCES WITH PRAZIQUANTEL by Michael R. Reich, Ramesh Govindaraj, Karin Dumbaugh, Bong-min Yang, Agnes Brinkmann, and Sameh El-Saharty, with the assistance of Christopher Mast and John Norris. This report identifies national and international policies that have facilitated or hindered the availability of praziquantel, the drug of choice for all forms of schistosomiasis occurring in humans. The report gives particular attention to questions of access for people in the world's poorest countries in Africa where schistosomiasis is endemic. The analysis of praziquantel illustrates more general problems in the design of national and international policies for tropical disease products, and suggests strategies for future research and action. The report's seven chapters are: Chapter 1: Policies for Praziquantel: An Overview; Chapter 2: Bayer & E. Merck: Discovery and Development of Praziquantel; Chapter 3: Shin Poong Pharmaceutical Co.: Process Development in Korea; Chapter 4: Egyptian International Pharmaceutical Industries Co.: Praziquantel Formulation; Chapter 5: The International Supply of Praziquantel; Chapter 6: Demand for Praziquantel and National Distribution; and Chapter 7: Prices and Production Costs for Praziquantel. This research project was carried out through the Takemi Program in International Health, at the Harvard School of Public Health (665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, USA 02115), with the financial support of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. Comments on the report are appreciated, and can be sent to: reich@hsph.harvard.edu Dr.Christoph G.Grevelding Genetische Parasitologie des Instituts fuer Genetik der Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet 40225 Duesseldorf Germany Tel.: 49-211-81-13070 Fax : 49-211-81-12333 Fax : 49-211-81-12279 e-mail: Christoph.Grevelding@uni-duesseldorf.de From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Mon Mar 18 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI Fundraising Update! Date: 19 Mar 1996 02:00:35 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 149 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199603191000.CAA14058@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I'm interrupting the usual monthly posting of the BIOSCI miniFAQ to bring you up to date on BIOSCI fundraising progress, a topic of concern to your future use of this resource. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this message carefully. Last year we announced that BIOSCI was going to adopt the U.S. Public Broadcasting System model to fund its operations after our DOE/NSF grant runs out later this year. Unlike PBS, we are not soliciting contributions from users; we are only selling ads on our Web pages solely to cover our operating costs. Our goal is to seek sponsorships until we build up an operating reserve of about $100,000 and then cease further promotions until we need to build the reserve back up. (The accountants among our readership will be familiar with the problem of deferred revenue which we can not safely utilize until ads have been displayed for a period of time.) We have three sponsors to date with a couple more pending. The process is time-consuming, however, and we need your help as explained further below. Our operating costs consist of our network connection, phone lines, hardware maintenance (we hope to have new and faster hardware soon!), plus 0.7 FTE of salaries covering UNIX systems admin, technical support, quality assurance, i.e., testing, of our system, and administrative costs (such as the time it takes to actually find/write/call potential sponsors and raise money!). Although the BIOSCI staff does get compensated for a portion of the work that they do, this project has always received a lot of free after-hours and "vacation" time labor, so we hope that no one will begrudge the time that we do charge to the project to serve you. All of the three part-time staff members, Dave Mack, Julie Lawrence, and myself, have full time day jobs and families in addition to working hard to keep this service running for all of you. Julie and Dave Mack are subcontractors for BIOSCI; my time that is charged to the project defrays a portion of my regular salary instead of adding to my income. Besides having to relocate the project, we were very busy this last year building new infrastructure such as our WWW hypermail interface to the system. This was released last December along with scores of WAIS indices for the newsgroups. Virtually everything is complete, although we do continue to find and fix bugs (many through your helpful feedback!). We are still having some problems with our WAIS indexing. The archives continue to grow rapidly. We are running over 100 indexes now versus three previously and any systems crashes cause greater havoc with the indexing than before! We are still working to fix this as fast as our resources permit and appreciate your patience, but we have been able to automate a lot of the infrastructure to reduce labor as compared to past requirements. We have also implemented new software to make moderation of BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups much easier and combat the growing problem of Internet junk mail and USENET "spamming." About 20% of our groups are now moderated, many of them by the BIOSCI staff! This, for example, made a major difference last year in the quality of content in our EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs.offered newsgroup which many commercial concerns and recruiting firms are using **without charge** to recruit candidates for positions in the biological sciences. We are also now in a position to have sponsors for individual newsgroups as you will have noticed if you have visited http://www.bio.net/ and clicked on "Access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups" recently. So, how can you help?? ---------------------- As noted above it can take a lot of time to contact potential sponsors if I have to do it all myself. Our request is quite simple. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can now post or reply to messages via your Web browser. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. Our hope is to quickly raise several large corporate/institutional sponsors on our heavily-used WWW locations (some stats appended below), and then end this sponsorship campaign so that our resources can continue to be used for service provision, not fundraising. Many of our specialty newsgroup WWW archives are still used by small communities of scientists (and they haven't been heavily promoted yet). While these may be valuable niche markets to some advertisers, it will generate more labor and overhead having to find these sponsors, fairly price the locations, and deal with lots of smaller sponsorships than fewer mid-to large sponsors. We are striving to keep our operation as lean and efficient as possible since we are not trying to make careers out of running BIOSCI. We are trying if at all possible to avoid the administrative overhead entailed with processing lots of small payments to reach our fundraising goals. I'd like to thank all of you for your help in advance. In helping us, you are also helping yourselves, not only in keeping this resource available for all of the both large and small research communities that we serve, but also by alleviating the need for us to go back and compete with researchers for tight grant dollars! We promised NSF when we were awarded the BIOSCI grant that we would carry out this mission to make the service self-supporting. With your help, we will succeed in continuing BIOSCI's work into its second decade. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net A list of our prime WWW sponsorship locations follow. Statistics are for the four week period from 22 Jan. - 18 Feb. 1996 and usage continues to grow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The overall BIOSCI WWW pages are currently visited by users from close to 5000 unique computer hosts per week. Web servers only log the Internet computer/host name and frequently more than one individual can connect to us from a particular host. Main home page, http://www.bio.net, visited recently by about 2100 unique hosts per week Main Newsgroups archives page, http://www.bio.net/archives.html, visited recently by about 1200 Unique hosts per week BIO-JOURNALS archive page, http://www.bio.net/BIO-JOURNALS.html, visited recently by about 1000 unique hosts per week. EMPLOYMENT archive pages: http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/EMPLOYMENT/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 600 unique hosts per week. Address database search page, http://www.bio.net/addrsearch.html, visited recently by about 450 unique hosts per week. Methods newsgroup archive pages, http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/METHDS- REAGNTS/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 350 unique hosts per week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Sun Mar 24 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!gwu.edu!bussell From: bussell@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Charles Jeffery Bussell) Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: ill give your mom shistta som Date: 25 Mar 1996 07:11:28 GMT Organization: The George Washington University, Washington DC Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4j5gv0$js0@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.127.252 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] uh yes this soon will be my news group he he -- gggggggggggggggggggg bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb ggggggggggggggggggggg bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb ggggg bbbb bbbb ggggg bbbb bbbb ggggg ggggggggg bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb ggggg ggggggggg bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb ggggg ggggg bbbb bbbb ggggg ggggg bbbb bbbb ggggggggggggggggggggg bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb gggggggggggggggggggg bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb GORILLA BISCUITS "START TODAY"