From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Thu Jun 11 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Mark Harries Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: Varroacide Date: 12 Jun 1998 09:06:25 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 9 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6lrjm1$di9@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Does anyone have any infomation regarding the bioassay methods that Bayer used to test their product Bayvarol either in the laboratory or in the field? A reference would be just as good. All infomatoin gratefully recieved. Thanks Mark Harries E.mail mark@lovesgrove.co.uk From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Tue Jun 16 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: TROY LLEWELLYN BRADSHAW Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: World-wide parasite control programs Date: 17 Jun 1998 13:44:39 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 53 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6m99rn$t38@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Troy Ll. Bradshaw and I am an MSc student at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. I am at present researching for my MSc dissertation and I was hoping you could spare a few minutes to complete the following questionnaire on world-wide parasite control programs. IMPORTANT NOTE: WHEN YOU REPLY TO THIS QUESTIONNAIRE PLEASE REPLY DIRECTLY TO ME AT: tlb94@aber.ac.uk AND NOT TO THE NEWSGROUP. THANK YOU. 1. Do you know of any effects or consequences of the parasite control programs that were unexpected or not taken into account? 2. Do you think that the control programs took into account all avaliable factors? (a) If YES then please goto: Question 4 (b) If no then please goto: Question 3 3. What factors do you think that the control programs failed to take into account? 4. Do you think the control programs integrated different areas of research sufficiently? 5. Do you think that the consequences of the control programs were adequately dealt with at the time of planning? The last question is for those who have knowledge of either: (a) Environmental Impact Assessment (b) Social Impact Assessment (c) Strategic Environmental Assessment (d) Environmental Health Impact Assessment 6. Do you think that any of the above would have been useful when designing the control programs in order to: (a) Anticipate unforeseen events? (b) Mitigate effects earlier? (c) Integrate different areas of research? Thank you very much for your time and consideration with this questionnaire. If you have any other comments you would like to make or if you require more details about the questionnaire or dissertation, then please feel free to contact me at: tlb94@aber.ac.uk Thanking you again for your time, Yours sincerely Troy Ll. Bradshaw From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Thu Jun 25 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: AMBID Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: M.Sc. Applied Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases Date: 26 Jun 1998 08:11:19 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 28 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6n0dmn$fdf@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net MSc in the Applied Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Applications are invited for entry to this course in September 1998. Minimal entry requirements are of a class 2:2 degree or appropriate training and experience. The course provides a thorough understanding and practical experience of molecular biology for students who wish to use this approach in clinical diagnosis, epidemiological investigations, or laboratory research on infectious diseases. A high proportion of students subsequently enter PhD programmes. For more information and an application form contact: The Deputy Registrar, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT. Telephone: +44 (0) 171 927 2239. Fax: +44 (0) 171 323 0638. Email: registry@lshtm.ac.uk Enquiries for course organiser: Email: m.miles@lshtm.ac.uk; Telephone: +44 (0) 171 927 2249/2639; Fax: +44 (0) 171 636 8739. M. A. Miles The School is an exempt charity dedicated to providing excellence in teaching, learning and research for the benefit of health worldwide, and is an equal opportunities employer From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Sat Jun 27 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 28 Jun 1998 09:40:06 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 234 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6n5rl6$aok@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) 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. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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-vectors@net.bio.net Mon Jun 29 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Hilda B. Ye, Ph.D. Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: Postdoc Position at Albert Einstein Date: 30 Jun 1998 14:26:24 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 21 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6nbl60$fpe@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net A Postdoctoral position is available starting immediately in Dr. B. Hilda Y= e =92s laboratory in the Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College = of Medicine. Applications are sought from highly motivate individuals interested in analyzing the role of a novel oncogene, BCL-6, in normal lymphoid functions and tumorigenesis. Candidates are expected to be familia= r with in vitro and/or in vivo tumor models. Prior experience in the areas of B cell or keratinocyte differentiation, and/or ES cell work will be a plus. More information about research in Dr. Ye=92s laboratory and her research programs can be found at her website: http:\\rbp53.cpmc.columbia.edu\Ye . T= o apply, please send a curriculum vitae, an introductory letter containing a brief description of research experience, and contact information for three references to Dr. B. Hilda Ye, Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, NY 10461. Or E-mail the above information to hye@aecom.yu.edu. From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Mon Jun 29 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Mr. G. Morley Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: Intracellular antibodies? Date: 30 Jun 1998 14:26:55 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 16 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6nbl6v$fqh@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hello all, this question may seem a bit strange, but does anyone out there know or have heard of any ways of allowing antibodies to pass across the extracellular membrane and be active in the intracellular environment? Would miscelles or liposomes function as carriers to do this? I heard rumours that someone managed to get an antibody across the cell surface in vitro but I was thinking more in terms of in vivo (in a whole animal) without totaly destroying the cell in the process. Any ideas or speculation would be welcome Regards, Gary Morley. gmorley@rpms.ac.uk