From owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Wed Apr 6 16:16:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: schisto-outgoing Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A756519DE for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:16:47 +0100 (BST) X-Original-To: schisto-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C718C519DA for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:16:46 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 0FA6C519DE; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:16:42 +0100 (BST) To: schisto@net.bio.net Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma From: Christoph.Grevelding@vetmed.uni-giessen.de (Christoph Grevelding) Date: 6 Apr 2005 15:43:38 +0100 Subject: News Message-Id: <20050406151642.0FA6C519DE@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Sender: owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hi everbody, sorry for the delay in sending messages to the newsgroup. Due to a new position at another university, my address changed and it took some time to reorganize everything. The following messages were sent by David Johnston: >MESSAGE 1: > >SUBJECT: 2005 Schistosome Genome Network Meeting - open invitation >Open Invitation - 2005 Schistosoma and Filarial Genome Network Meeting >Parasitology and International Programs Branch, NIAID, >6610 Rockledge, >Rockville, MD, USA >1-2 September 2005 >Dear Colleagues, >A Joint Filarial/Schistosome Genome Meeting sponsored by the Parasitology >and International Programs Branch, DMID, NIAID and UNICEF/ UNDP / World >Bank/ WHO special programme in Tropical Disease Research will be held in >Rockville, Maryland, USA from 1-2 September 2005. Limited funds to support >travel and room and board during the meeting are available and intended >primarily for participants from Disease Endemic Countries. >The meeting will start in the morning of the 1st of September and end late >afternoon September 2nd. >Those who wish to attend should contact Philip T. LoVerde, Co-ordinator for >the Schistosome Genome Network as soon as possible at loverde@buffalo.edu. >As funds are limited, all of the interested parties, especially those from >developed countries, are requested to pay for their own travel costs. >International flights are available directly to the Washington, DC area via >three airports, Reagan National, Dulles, and BWI. >We expect to accommodate as many applicants as possible and look forward to >a very fruitful and exciting meeting. >P.T. LoVerde >D. A. Johnston >Schistosome Genome Network >************************* > >MESSAGE 2: >SUBJECT: Schistosoma Genome Database Release 1 >Dear Colleagues, >The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Pathogen Sequencing Unit is pleased to >annouce the first release of the Schistosoma Genome Database, available at: >http://www.SchistoDB.org >The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Pathogen Sequencing Unit, in >collaboration with The Institute for Genomic Research, has undertaken whole >genome sequencing of S. mansoni. This sequencing effort has currently >achieved >6X coverage of the estimated 270Mb genome, and preliminary >assembly has been performed by Zemin Ning from the High Performance >Assembly group at the Sanger Institute. >To ensure that the genome is made available to the community at the >earliest opportunity, the results of initial automatic annotation of the >Sanger assembly, along with automatic annotation of all of the publicly >available ESTs sequences, have now been made available through the GeneDB >database system. This analysis was performed at the Sanger Institute by Dr. >Peter Ashton of the Schistosomiasis Research Group at the University of York. >D A Johnston >Secretary, >WHO Schistosome Genome Network >20/03/2005 >************************************ >-- >David A. Johnston, >Secretary to the WHO Schistosoma Genome Network, >Biomedical Parasitology Division, >Dept. of Zoology, >The Natural History Museum, >Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England, UK. > >Tel: 020-7942-5566 office /5008 lab >Fax: 020-7942-5347 >(from outside the UK: 44-20-7942 ****) >eMail daj@nhm.ac.uk > >http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/schisto/ > >The Biomedical Parasitology Division is a WHO Collaborating Centre for the >identification of schistosomes and their snail hosts. From owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Apr 21 08:10:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: schisto-outgoing Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F27F519A0 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:10:37 +0100 (BST) X-Original-To: schisto-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F0151997 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:10:36 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 1C054519A1; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:10:35 +0100 (BST) To: schisto@net.bio.net Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma From: karen.purvis@dial.pipex.com ("Karen Purvis") Date: 20 Apr 2005 13:13:12 +0100 Subject: Travel Medicine Conference Announcement Message-Id: <20050421071035.1C054519A1@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Sender: owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Dear Schisto-Newsgroup members: >We believe the following conference may be of interest to your list=20 >subscribers and wonder if you would post the following announcement on our= =20 >behalf. > >Please ignore this request if the conference is indeed of peripheral=20 >interest. > >1st International Conference of the Journal of Travel Medicine and=20 >Infectious Disease > >Programme information is now available for the 1st International=20 >Conference of the Journal of >Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease which takes place 10-11 November=20 >2005 in London, UK. > >The conference features an impressive line-up of invited speakers=20 >reviewing advances in all aspects of travel medicine. Invited=20 >presentations include: > >Global health: The wider context > >Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, UK > > >Emerging infectious diseases & travel medicine > >Dr David Heymann, Executive Director, Communicable Diseases, WHO,= Switzerland > > >Pathology without frontiers > >Professor Sir James Underwood, President, Royal College of Pathologists, UK > > >A review of the long-term protection of hepatitis A & B vaccines > >Professor Pierre van Damme, Professor of Epidemiology, University of=20 >Antwerp, Belgium > > >Travel medicine =96 How does a travel practitioner keep up to date > >Professor Jay Keystone, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto,= Canada > > >New developments in the field of travel-related vaccine =96 preventable= diseases > >Professor Elaine Jong, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington,=20 >Seattle, USA > > >These are supplemented by a number of submitted oral papers covering new=20 >and thematic research and a poster programme for which abstracts will be=20 >accepted until 22 July 2005. > > >Organized by Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease / Elsevier this=20 >two-day conference will consider recent advances in the prevention of=20 >infectious disease including vaccine-preventable diseases and malaria=20 >prophylaxis as well as the treatment of the unwell returning traveller;=20 >migrant medicine with its concomitant public health implication and the=20 >significance of respiratory borne diseases and travel with particular=20 >reference to SARS and avian flu. > > >For full programme and registration information visit:=20 >http://www.travelmedicine.elsevier.com or contact=20 >s.peters@elsevier.com > > >---------- > > >Karen Purvis >Blue Zulu Marketing > >Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 1993 831 859 >Email: bluezulu@dial.pipex.com > >Mail: 15 High Street, Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxon OX7 6AW UK