From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Thu Sep 17 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Nolan Newton Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: Special Solicitation Announcement Date: 18 Sep 1998 12:23:34 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 41 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6tubvm$hl6@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net FYI. LCS ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ Subject: Special Solicitation Announcement Author: Mindy Criser at Internet Date: 9/18/98 11:02 AM Small Business Innovation Research Program Public Health Practice Program Office (PHPPO) National Institutes of Health Geographic Information Systems and Community Health Planning-Solicitation for Contract Proposals Proposals are invited that would facilitate the development and use of geographic information systems (GIS), data methods, and software by local health departments/officials to organize the process of community health assessment, identify preventable health problems, and improve public health program planning, performance measurement, evaluation, decision making, and prevention effectiveness at the community level. Further information can be found on the Web at http://www.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbircontract/phppo.htm ************************************************************ Mindy Criser Analyst, Environmental Health Policy Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) 1275 K Street, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20005-4006 Phone: (202) 371-9090 x225 Fax: (202) 371-9797 e-mail: mcriser@astho.org web site: http://www.astho.org From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Mon Sep 21 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Dennis L. Knudson Newsgroups: bionet.biology.vectors Subject: Burroughs Wellcome Fund 1999 Award Series Date: 22 Sep 1998 12:44:40 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 155 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: vbmod@klab.agsci.colostate.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6u8un8$lum@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Burroughs Wellcome Fund 1999 Award Series Scholar Awards and New Investigator Awards in Molecular Parasitology Application deadline: January 15, 1999 The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is offering five-year Scholar Awards in Molecular Parasitology of $425,000 ($85,000 per year) and three-year New Investigator Awards in Molecular Parasitology of $210,000 ($70,000 per year). It is anticipated that two scholar awards and four new investigator awards will be made. The program's goal is to foster the development and productivity of scientists who will bring new ways of thinking and new experimental approaches to the study of parasitic diseases, which have been relatively neglected as targets for basic research. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry and higher-risk research projects that hold potential for advancing significantly the biochemical, pharmacological, immunological, and molecular biological knowledge of major pathogens and arthropod vectors that spread parasitic diseases. BWF is interested particularly in supporting investigators who will move modern molecular techniques into the study of parasitic systems as well as investigators whose work will extend the study of parasites in new directions. Applications must be submitted by accredited degree-granting U.S. or Canadian institutions on behalf of individual candidates. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada, and they must have an M.D. or Ph.D. degree. Candidates for scholar awards must have established a record of independent research and hold a tenure-track position as an associate professor or its equivalent. Consideration also will be given to more senior investigators who are either significantly reorienting their research from another field to molecular parasitology or significantly switching research directions within the field. Candidates for new investigator awards must hold a tenure-track position as an assistant professor or its equivalent, and they must have established a record of independent research at the faculty level. Burroughs Wellcome Fund 1999 Award Series New Initiatives in Malaria Research Application deadline: January 15, 1999 The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is offering two types of awards. One type, which provides up to $400,000 over a period of four years (up to $100,000 per year), is intended to support studies that bring new ways of thinking and new experimental approaches to malaria research. The second type, which provides $100,000 over a period of two years ($50,000 per year), is intended to support feasibility studies and pilot work that will underpin higher-risk projects in malaria, or to support investigators from other fields who are reorienting their research to malaria. It is anticipated that up to $1.5 million will be spent on awards in the New Initiatives in Malaria Research program, with the split between four-year awards and two-year awards to be determined during the selection process. The program's goal is to increase the fundamental understanding of the biology and pathogenesis of malaria. The awards are intended to attract more investigators to work on malaria, to encourage them to bring novel approaches to studying the pathogens and the arthropod vectors responsible for causing the disease, and to enhance scientific collaborations among investigators at the same or different institutions. Applications from coinvestigators with complementary expertise to work jointly on research projects are encouraged. Experience in malaria research is not a prerequisite. BWF seeks to encourage individuals from other fields to apply their expertise in bringing new ideas and approaches to the study of malaria. Applications must be submitted by accredited degree-granting U.S. or Canadian institutions on behalf of individual candidates. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada. Candidates must have an M.D. or Ph.D. degree, and they must hold a tenure-track faculty appointment or its equivalent. In an exception to this requirement, if a collaboration permits access to field sites or laboratory resources unique to a tropical developing country, then the collaborative partner may be an international one, so long as the lead partner is a U.S. or Canadian researcher who meets the eligibility criteria. Burroughs Wellcome Fund 1999 Award Series Scholar Awards and New Investigator Awards in Molecular Pathogenic Mycology Application deadline: January 15, 1999 The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is offering five-year Scholar Awards in Molecular Pathogenic Mycology of $400,000 ($80,000 per year) and three-year New Investigator Awards in Molecular Pathogenic Mycology of $195,000 ($65,000 per year). It is anticipated that three scholar awards and three new investigator awards will be made. The program's goal is to foster the development and productivity of scientists who will bring new ways of thinking and new experimental approaches to the study of disease-causing fungi. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry and higher-risk research projects that hold potential for advancing significantly the field of medical mycology. BWF is interested particularly in supporting scientists--including investigators already working in mycology as well as those from other fields--who will use modern techniques from molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, pharmacology, and genetics to advance fundamental knowledge of virulent fungal pathogens. Applications must be submitted by accredited degree-granting U.S. or Canadian institutions on behalf of individual candidates. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada, and they must have an M.D. or Ph.D. degree. Candidates for scholar awards must have established a record of independent research and hold a tenure-track position as an associate professor or its equivalent. Consideration also will be given to more senior investigators who are significantly reorienting their research from another field to medical mycology. Candidates for new investigator awards must hold a tenure-track position as an assistant professor or its equivalent, and they must have established a record of independent research at the faculty level. ABOUT THE BURROUGHS WELLCOME FUND The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Within this broad mandate, BWF's general strategy is to help outstanding scientists early in their careers develop as independent investigators, and to support investigators who are working in or entering fields in the basic medical sciences that are undervalued or in need of particular encouragement. With its current endowment of more than $600 million, BWF makes approximately $30 million in grants annually in the United States and Canada. BWF's support is channeled primarily through competitive peer-reviewed award programs, which encompass six major categories: career development of scientists, emerging infectious diseases, therapeutic sciences, reproductive science, interfaces between the physical/chemical/computational sciences and the biological sciences, and science education. Grants are made primarily to degree-granting institutions on behalf of individual researchers, who must be nominated by their institutions. To complement these competitive programs, BWF also makes grants to nonprofit organizations conducting activities to improve the general environment for science. Based in Durham, North Carolina, BWF was founded in 1955 as the corporate foundation of the pharmaceutical firm Burroughs Wellcome Co. In 1993, a generous gift from BWF's sister philanthropy in the United Kingdom, the Wellcome Trust, enabled the Fund to become fully independent from the company, which was acquired by Glaxo in 1995. BWF has no affiliation either with the firm now known as Glaxo Wellcome or with any other corporation. BWF is governed by a Board of Directors composed of distinguished scientists and business leaders. Information about BWF and its award programs can be obtained electronically by sending an e-mail message to mailback@bwfund.org (type the word "menu" on the subject line for a list of programs). To request a specific brochure to be delivered by regular mail, or to send a message to a program officer, access BWF at info@bwfund.org. Information also is available on the World Wide Web. BWF's website address is http://www.bwfund.org. Burroughs Wellcome Fund 4709 Creekstone Drive, Suite 100 Durham, NC 27703-8472 Tel: 919/991-5100 Fax: 919/941-5884 E-mail: info@bwfund.org Website: http://www.bwfund.org From owner-vectors@net.bio.net Sun Sep 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 Sep 1998 07:58:07 -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: <6uo85v$3h4@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. 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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.