From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Thu Oct 14 11:39:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: DieterHeinrichM Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Schist.- mansoni/Strept.-bovis Date: 14 Oct 1999 05:39:12 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 30 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: greveld@uni-duesseldorf.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <7u4itg$a8q@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Has anyone heard about correlation between Streptococcus bovis and Schistosoma mansoni infection of the bowel ? Strept. bovis is known as an inhabitant of the gastrointestinaltract, sometimes developing to serious infections of blood, endocard, meningitis spondilitis. A typical correlation is known to cancer of bowel and to strongiloides. Patient showed history of intestine infection with schistosoma mansoni some years ago and complains about ongoing unspecific problems. Ongoing parasitic infection has been excluded by extensive serological tests. But certain values let still think about chronic infection: high protein levels in serum and csf, high phagocytosis activity, high relations of NK-lymphocites, high lymphocite relations etc. Culture of wound swab from paining tonsil region did recently show high concentrations of streptococcus bovis (var)- (Group D, nonenterococci) C; tonsil had been extirpeted as well as package of lymphnodes from same region. Is finding of Strept.-b. as mentioned above sign of normal flora or is it more likely a sign of infection that could have found its onset due to bowel infection in the past and that could eventually guide to cardiac or neurologic affections? Who can give additional advise? Thanks DieterHeinrichM From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Tue Oct 19 07:50:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Harold Weger Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Faculty Position Date: 19 Oct 1999 01:49:58 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 28 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: greveld@uni-duesseldorf.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <7uhbbm$rsv@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Animal Molecular Biologist. The Department of Biology at the University of Regina invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, effective July 1, 2000 (subject to budgetary approval). We are seeking qualified individuals who use molecular techniques to study animal systems. The successful candidate will be welcomed to interact with members of GenBioTek, an interdepartmental unit made up of individuals who use molecular techniques in their research. Candidates must have a recent PhD, postdoctoral experience and a productive research record. As well as establishing an externally-funded research program, the successful candidate will be expected to participate in the teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses, and to develop an advanced undergraduate course in his/her area of expertise. Start-up research funds will be provided, as well as a reduced teaching load in the first two years. To apply for the position, submit a letter of application outlining research and teaching goals, a curriculum vitae, samples of research publications, and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to: Dr. W. Chapco, Head, Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2 Canada. (fax 306-585-4894; phone 306-585-4231; e-mail William.Chapco@uregina.ca). The closing date for applications is December 31, 1999. Further information about the department is available on the world-wide web at: http://www.uregina.ca./science/biology. In accordance with Canadian Immigration Regulations, preference will be given to citizens and permanent residents of Canada. The University of Regina is committed to the principle of employment equity. From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Tue Oct 19 08:13:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 19 Oct 1999 02:13:43 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 235 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: greveld@uni-duesseldorf.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <7uhco7$mg@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (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-schistosoma@net.bio.net Wed Oct 27 13:56:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Murray Selkirk Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Postdoctoral position Date: 27 Oct 1999 07:56:39 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 20 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: greveld@uni-duesseldorf.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <7v73r7$nki@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Colleagues - We would be grateful if you could pass on information about this position. IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE:- DEPARTMENT OF IOCHEMISTRY POSTDOCTORAL POSITION:- SECRETED PROTEIN KINASES OF TRICHINELLA PIRALIS A postdoctoral position is available immediately to work on protein kinases secreted by infective larvae of Trichinella spiralis. The appointment will be for 1 year in the first instance, with the possibility of renewal. Applicants should have experience in biochemistry and molecular biology, and should submit a C.V. and the names of two referees ASAP to either Murray Selkirk or Kleoniki Gounaris, Dept. of Biochemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London SW7 2AY. Enquiries can be made by calling Dr. Selkirk or Dr. Gounaris on 0171 594 5214/5209 (m.selkirk@ic.ac.uk or k.gounaris@ic.ac.uk).