E-Board No. 38
ISDCI E-Board 38
ISDCI E-Board Number 38
February 2006
Dear ISDCI Colleagues
INFORMATION FROM THE ORGANISERS OF ISDCI X
10th International Conference of ISDCI in Charleston, South Carolina July 1-6, 2006.
The deadline for abstracts has been extended to March 20, 2006.
For developing details on the conference and to submit an abstract or register, go to:
<http://www.isdci.org/congress/index.shtml>http://www.isdci.org/congress/index.shtml
Please send your registration and abstract as soon as possible to be sure you can attend!
List of session and workshop topics with Chairs in parenthesis:
THEMES & SESSIONS
Theme 1) Recognition of Non-Self
Sessions: MHC (Kathy Magor)
Rearranging Ag receptors (John Hansen, Eva Bengtén)
PAMPS/PRR/TLR/Lectins (Gerardo Vasta)
NK cell receptors (René Stet)
Theme 2) Signal Transduction and Transcription Factors (Michele Anderson)
Theme 3) Organism /Pathogen Interactions
Sessions: Mucosal Immunity (Margaret McFadden, John Baatz)
Sessions: Mucosal Immunity (Margaret McFadden, John Baatz)
Parasite immunity (Geert Wiegertjes)
Intracellular pathogens (Greg Wiens)
Theme 4) Immune Effector Mechanisms
Sessions: Cytotoxic reactions (O2-, lysins etc) (Mike Belosevic)
Antimicrobial peptides (Evelyne Bachere, Val Smith)
Igs/complement (Oriel Sunyer)
Diversity in Innate Immunity (Courtney Smith)
Theme 5) Immune Regulation
Sessions: T cell function (Melanie Wilson)
Gene Expression / Transcription factors (Ikuo Hirono)
Cytokines (Steve Bird)
Theme 6) EcoImmunity / EcoImmunoGenomics (Ken Söderhall & Greg Warr)
Theme 7) Marine Mammals (Tracy Romano)
Theme 8) Enhancing Immune Reactions
Sessions: DNA Vaccines (Niels Lorenzen)
Immune stimulation (Jorunn Jřrgensen)
WORKSHOPS:
W1) Genomic models for fish immunology (Chris Amemiya)
W2) Molluscan Immunology (Sam Loker and Charlie Cunningham)
W3) Arthropod Immunology (Ken Söderhall and Carolina Barillas-Mury)
W4) Protochordate Immunology (Tomas Bosch and Masanori Kasahara)
W5) Genomic Tools in Comparative Immunology (Ben Koop, John Liu)
NOTE: DUE TO NO BASEBALL GAME BEING SCHEDULED ON JULY 4 IN CHARLESTON, THE ORGANISERS WERE FORCED TO CANCEL IT. THAT EVENING WILL BE FOR FREE TIME AROUND CHARLESTON
Contact: John Cooksey, CEM
World Aquaculture Conference Management
2423 Fallbrook Place, Escondido, CA 92027 USA
Tel: +1-760-432-4270 Fax: +1-760-432-4275
Email: worldaqua@aol.com Web: www.was.org
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
AQUACULTURE AMERICA 2006
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Feb. 13-16, 2006
AQUA 2006
Firenze (Florence), Italy - May 9-13, 2006
AUSTRALASIAN AQUACULTURE 2006
Adelaide, South Australia - August 27-30, 2006
LATIN AMERICAN CHAPTER MEETING/ISTA
Veracruz, Mexico - September 6-8, 2006
AQUACULTURE 2007
San Antonio, Texas, USA - Feb. 26-Mar. 2, 2007
WORLD AQUACULTURE 2008
Busan, Korea - May 19-23, 2008
AQUACULTURE AMERICA 2009
Seattle, Washington, USA - February 15-19, 2009
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OTHER FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
2006 BIOMEDICAL AND
COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY SYLMPOSIUM
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
MIAMI, FLORIDA
LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
The 8th annual Biomedical and Comparative Immunology Symposium will be held on March 2nd and 3rd, 2006 at F.I.U. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 24th. For your convenience abstracts can be submitted electronically to compimmu@fiu.edu or smiths@fiu.edu. Registration fee for students with valid IDs will be waived. Free breakfast, refreshment break beverages and lunch will be available to all registrants on both days of the symposium. To help defray travel costs a limited number of travel awards (up to $300 per person) are available to out-of-town post-docs and predoctoral students presenting at the symposium. Application for a travel award must be received by February 20th, 2006. Details are on our website (www.fiu.edu/~ci). Program materials will be distributed on-site. Our Plenary speakers are:
1. Austin Hughes, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Tuitle: Natural selection and immune defence.
2. John Lambris, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Title: From atoms to systems: A multidisciplinary approach to innate immunity.
3. Peter Parham, Dept. of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Title:The roles for HLA and KIR polymorphisms in NK repertoire selection and modulation of effector function.
4. Louise Rollins-Smith, Dept. of Pathobiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr, Nashville, TN. Title: Antimicrobial peptides: An essential tool in the innate immunity tool box
Further information contact:
Sylvia L. Smith
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Director, Comparative Immunology Institute, and
Office for Access to Biomedical Research.
E-Mail: smiths@fiu.edu
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SECOND RENMINDER
INSECT IMMUNITY: THE POST-GENOMIC ERA
ROSCOFF (BRITTANY, FRANCE)
JUNE 10TH – 14TH 2006 INCL.
DEADLINE 1st MARCH
The goal of this meeting is to specifically bring together researchers working on insect immunity independent of their model species. We have planned sessions on humoral immunity (recognition, signalling), haematopoiesis, cellular immunity (phagocytosis, wound healing, clotting, encapsulation), host-pathogen interactions (bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites), insect vectors, evolution and ecology.
It will start on Saturday evening (10/6) and will end on Wednesday at 12 AM (14/10). The meeting is a workshop supported by the CNRS and will be attended by a total of approximately 100 participants. Deadline for application: March 1, 2006. Do not hesitate to spread this information to other colleagues, especially those working on insects other than Drosophila.
Find more information at:
<http://www.cnrs.fr/dsg/vivant/colloques/cjm2006/cjmlemaitre_e.html>http://www.cnrs.fr/dsg/vivant/colloques/cjm2006/cjmlemaitre_e.html
NB THIS IS A NEW ADDRESS, REPLACING THAT CIRCULATED EARLIER
Contact: Bruno and Uli Lamaitre
E-mail : lemaitre@cgm.cnrs-gif.fr>lemaitre@cgm.cnrs-gif.fr
Centre de Genetique Moleculaire
CNRS
91198 Gif-sur-Yvette
Tel 33 1 69 82 32 27 or 31 82
Fax 33 169 82 43 86
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The next E-Board will go out in March. 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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