E-Board No. 23

April 2004

Dear ISDCI Colleagues

Conference Announcement

Monday, April 19, 2004, 2:45 PM

International Society for Developmental and Comparative Immunology (ISDCI)

Remarkable Complexity of Immune Recognition in the Invertebrates

Chair: Martin Flajnik, U Maryland Sch Med

Speakers:

Paul Gross, Medical U South Carolina
Variability in anti-microbial peptides: sources, specificity, significance, scampi
Anthony De Tomaso, Stanford U
Multiple processes diversify a putative allorecognition receptor in a protochordate
L. Courtney Smith, George Washington U
Unexpected diversity in a putative anti-microbial protein from a sea urchin
Eric Loker, U New Mexico
Diversity of IgSF genes in an invertebrate (snail)
To those of you who will attend the American Association of Immunologists Meeting, please be sure to attend the ISDCI Symposium on invertebrate immune recognition
(see http://www.aai.org/prog_eb2004/default.htm). We hope to see you all there!

Martin Flajnik
mflajnik@som.umaryland.edu

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Conference Anouncement

XIX International Zoology Congress, Beijing, August 2004
Web site:

www.icz.ioz.ac.cn

ISDCI Members involved:

Edwin Cooper
Philippe Roch
Ellen Kauschke
Nicolo Parrinello
Franck Vandenbulcke (Salzet's group Reims)
Werner Muller from Mainz

Further information from Edwin Cooper (Cooper@mednet.ucla.edu)

E-mail: icz2004@panda.ioz.ac.cn

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