E-Board No. 29
ISDCI E-Board 29
ISDCI E-Board Number 29
December 2004
Dear ISDCI Colleagues
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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
ISDCI Symposium (part of the AAI Meeting)
San Diego 31 March-5 April 2005
Title: The quixotic quest for immune origins
Time/Date: 12:30 PM, Sunday 2 April 2005
Chair: Martin Flajnik, University of Maryland
Speakers
Jonathan Rast, University of Toronto
Title: The sea urchin genome: innate immunity, RAG genes, and the origins of the vertebrate adaptive immune system
Michelle Anderson, University of Toronto
Title: Evolutionary origins of lymphocyte gene regulatory programs
Zeev Pancer, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Origins of vertebrate immunity
John Hansen, University of Washington
Title: Unexpected discovery of a third IgH isotype in rainbow trout
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Graduate Studies in Evolutionary Immunobiology
Graduate applications to the Department of Biological Sciences at the George Washington University in Washington DC, USA, are invited for a position in the laboratory of Dr. L. Courtney Smith. A broad range of dissertation topics is available on the cellular and molecular immunology of the purple sea urchin. Financial support from teaching assistantships and research stipends is available for a student in the PhD program. Application review will begin in late January and continue until all slots are filled.
For more information, do not hesitate to contact:
Dr. L. Courtney Smith
csmith@gwu.edu
202-994-9211
www.gwu.edu/~clade/faculty/smith
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7th Comparative Immunology Symosium,
Florida International University, Miami, Florida USA
3rd –4th March 2005-02-21
Guest speakers:
Gregory Martin (Plant innate immunity),
Austin Hughes (Phylogenetics),
Diana Lopez (Mammary tumor immunology)
Oriol Sunyer (Fish immunology)
Plus contributed papers.
All welcome.
For further information contact Sylvia L. Smith (smiths@fiu.edu)
************************************************************************The next E-Board will go out in April. Please send any announcements or items for posting to me at the e-mail address below
Val Smith
ISDCI Education Secretary
vjs1@st-and.ac.uk
Gatty Marine Laboratory
School of Biology
University of St Andrews
Fife, KY16 8LB
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1334 463474
Fax: +44 (0) 1334 463443
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************************************************************************The next E-Board will go out in December. Please send any announcements or items for posting to me at the e-mail address below
Val Smith
ISDCI Education Secretary
vjs1@st-and.ac.uk
Gatty Marine Laboratory
School of Biology
University of St Andrews
Fife, KY16 8LB
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1334 463474
Fax: +44 (0) 1334 463443
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