The time is drawing close for our Annual Meeting. The program and local arrangements are taking shape very nicely; it should prove to be a first-rate meeting in an outstanding venue. As we anticipate the meeting, it seems appropriate to initiate some important thinking so that we can be assured of productive discussions in Nashville. For those who cannot attend the meeting, the need for this thinking and interaction is every bit as important. Since our meeting forms our annual benchmark, it is a good time to focus on Society issues.
We enjoyed terrific interactions in Tucson, both scientifically and socially. At the same time, at least for me, our Council and annual business meetings were somewhat sobering. It became clear that the Society was not as financially sound as we had assumed and that our financial trends would only lead to a more dismal state. Even before learning of this information at our Council meeting we were enjoying the usual expansive dialog about various committee reports and Society business issues. On certain subjects the
views that were expressed were widely different, even polar. These discussions have occurred in every Council meeting I have attended and, of course, they are not only healthy but essential. However, one reaction I have consistently experienced is to wonder about all of our individual assumptions about what ASP is, what we want from ASP and what we expect to give to ASP. Learning of the poor financial picture convinced me that it is time to define our collective assumptions about our Society. While attempts at fixing our finances needed to be initiated, we also had a great opportunity to define what it is we expect, in financial and other contexts, from ASP.
The previous Priorities and Planning Committee which I chaired had recommended
that a mission of vision statement be developed for ASP. The upshot of this was the intuition that we were all working from different assumption sets about what ASP is intended to be and that the dialog, as well as the statement that resulted, would be healthy for ASP. This year=s Priorities and Planning Committee is chaired by John Oaks. He assembled an outstanding group of contributing ASP members and has charged them with this task. Rules, such as no Asacred cows@, were outlined and away they went. To the extent that I have seen the e-mail dialog, I was very excited and impressed. I would not steal the thunder which John and his committee will describe in their report, but I am confident that everyone will be stimulated as they consider what this committee has discussed and concluded.
Concurrent with the efforts of the Priorities and Planning Committee, the reins of the Secretary-Treasurer have passed from the able hands of Dan Brooks and Henry Hong to George Cain and his assistant, Tim Walker. George has focused on short- and long-term solutions to our financial situation. George, Tim, Mike Ruff (Chair of the ASP Business Advisory Committee), and I traveled to Kansas earlier this year to meet with Allen Press and our accountancy firm. Again, I won=t steal George=s thunder, but suffice it to say he has come to a number of excellent suggestions and conclusions which you will learn about at our annual meeting.
Of course there are many new and important initiatives being pursued in ASP this year, but the two major issues outlined above seemed to me to warrant advance notice and thought. The convergence of successful activities in both of these areas will mean much to ASP.
I look forward to seeing you in Nashville, or hearing from you by other means if you are not able to attend the meeting. Please do make every effort to attend; the future of ASP may be more profoundly affected by what happens at this meeting than any other in recent memory. The American Society of Parasitologists is a very special organization and this year, in particular, we will have many opportunities for dialog about who we are as a Society, what we expect from our Society and, importantly, what do we expect to give to our Society in return.
Bob Grieve, ASP President
Our 1998 annual meeting will be held 16-21 June, at the Kona Surf Resort and Country Club, Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Start planning now for what may be the most spectacular and memorable meeting in ASP history!
The Big Island of Hawaii is the largest and most unique island in the Hawaiian Chain. The Kona Surf Resort sits on 220 acres of ocean front property just 6 miles south of Kailua-Kona on the sunny west coast. The architecture and the layout of the hotel have been designed to take full advantage of both the natural beauty and the historical value of the area. Located on the point of Keauhou Bay, the majestic coast line of the Big Island sets the stage for our 1998 meeting.
Built on varied levels, the Kona Surf Resort has three wings extending on dramatic cliffs to the ocean front, and a 6-story tower set back in a garden setting; all providing excellent views. Well-appointed, spacious, air-conditioned rooms, each with a color TV (with cable; pay movies available), phone, safe for valuables, mini-refrigerator, separate dressing areas and a private lanai (balcony), will be available for our use. Registrants will be given preferential rates and tee times at the Kona Country Club, a 36-hole, ocean-view championship golf course. Three lit tennis courts, a tennis pro and a pro shop are on the property as well as a regulation sand volleyball court, 2 shuffleboard courts, ocean-side saltwater pool and a garden side freshwater pool, the water=s edge walking/jogging path and the pool-side terrace for sunset viewing. In addition, Guest Services is available to provide instruction in Hawaiian crafts and conduct tours of the surrounding gardens.
If you are not yet convinced that this is a meeting that you SHOULDN=T MISS, perhaps the room rates will change your mind. Double rooms for registered participants will be $95.00 single or double occupancy and we have reserved a block of standard quads (spacious rooms with two queen-size beds) that can be shared by four students for $100 (this is not a typo; that means $25/night/student if you are willing to share a room with three others). In addition, children under the age of 18 are FREE-OF-CHARGE when sharing a room with their parent(s) and using existing bedding. A rollaway bed is an additional $20/night, but there is NO CHARGE for cribs. Finally, as an incentive to make this a family vacation you will always remember, the negotiated group rate will be honored for stays not to exceed four nights prior to June 15, 1998 and/or four days following June 20, 1998. That means you can come early and stay late at the same low rate.
In an effort to conduct our meeting at the lowest possible cost, especially for our student members, we will make every effort to keep the cost of registration as low as possible. To do so we will need to take care of certain amenities that we usually take for granted at meetings. The Plan is to form several committees of (mostly) students, each of which will be responsible for coordinating one specific meeting activity (e.g., projection equipment, registration, etc.) prior to May 16, 1998 and to take to Hawaii whatever equipment and/or materials (e.g. projectors, bulbs, registration packets, etc.) needed to fulfill that committee=s responsibility to the meeting. To further reduce student cost for meeting attendance, in exchange for accepting such responsibility, each participating student will have his/her registration fee waived.
The reason for taking this approach is that there will be no Local Committee to coordinate meeting activities in Hawaii. Although ASP member, Dr. Carter T. Atkinson (P.O. Box 218, Hawai=i Volcanic National Park, Hawai=i; Telephone, 808-967-8119; Fax, 808-967-8545) will be working with us, his office at Volcanic National Park is about a 3 hour drive from the Kona Surf Resort and he is the only ASP member on the Big Island. At present I am thinking that we will need ad hoc committees to be responsible for: assembling registration packets and working the registration tables; projection equipment and projectionists; receiving donated auction items and coordinating the auction; receiving registration materials and matching up roommates willing to share quads; and perhaps other areas that I have not thought of yet.
If you are a student interested in parasitology,
member of ASP or not, and willing to work on one of the coordinating
committees for the June 1998 ASP meeting in Hawai=i,
please contact me as soon as possible and let me know of your
willingness to serve and area of expertise:
Donald W. Duszynski, Scientific Program Officer, ASP, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A., Telephone: (505) 277-2704
Fax: (505) 277-0304
E-mail: eimeria@unm.edu
P.S. In case the spelling of the name our island state is confusing
to you, the State now asks that its name be spelled Hawai=i.
However, the Big Island, the site of our meeting, is still spelled
Hawaii (I think).
AParasitic
Diseases in the 21st Century: Funding Defense Mechanisms@
At the request of the ASP Student
Workshop Committee this article, which appeared in the last issue
of the Newsletter, is being printed a second time with some minor
changes that the Committee wishes to bring to the attention of
the membership.
Does the following sound familiar? You have just finished an exciting project in your area of parasitology research. The results have uncovered at least ten new questions that need to be answered and will benefit others in your field. Your adrenaline increases just thinking about the prospective projects and the impact the results will have on the current world-wide changes in infectious disease. However, out of nowhere, reality invades your temporary utopia. AWhere am I going to get the funds to support these projects?@ AWhy do I have to compete for limited funds when my project will uncover valuable information?@ AWhy are private and public funds so limited?@ AWhat must I do to increase my chances of receiving funds?@
Many of us are unaware of the problems and factors that contribute to the emergence of infectious diseases and the mechanisms by which we can communicate with the government and our elected officials. The ability to monitor and control parasitic diseases throughout the world is becoming increasingly difficult in the face of shrinking health and scientific budgets. With the constant battle for private and public funds there is an urgent need for scientists to become involved in ensuring their own futures.
We cordially invite you to join us to discuss both emerging parasitic diseases and how you can affect your funding resources through political advocacy. Drs. Daniel Colley and Peter Schantz from the Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will address the role of emerging infectious diseases and various parasitic zoonoses in light of current and national global interests.
Dr. Michael Kemp, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University will reinforce the importance of the field of parasitology and the ways in which ASP continues to defend the future of scientific research. In addition, a member of the legislature will discuss the future of science from a federal point of view, will define political advocacy, and will tell us how we can affect the opinions of our federal elected officials.
To answer questions such as: AWhy is the field of parasitology more important than ever?@, AWhat world-wide changes are occurring in the emergence of infectious diseases?@, AHave you done everything possible to increase federal funding in support of scientific research?@. Plan to attend the Tenth Annual Student Workshop to be held at the ASP meeting in Nashville on June 24th between the hours of 4 and 6 pm.
SEE YOU IN NASHVILLE.... or We did have a good time in Nashville!
The Student Workshop Committee
9. Olsen and Lyons, 1965.
The 100th issue of Parasitology Today (October, 1963) made a laudable effort to recognize milestones in parasitology. Most of the cited markers related to human infection, many demonstrating important life cycles. However, we should recognize an event in veterinary parasitology that revolutionized our concept of many important life cycles. The milestone was Olsen and Lyons (1965) paper in the Journal of Parasitology describing a new route of transmission for helminths. Working in the primitive conditions of the Pribilof Islands these authors discovered that fur seal pups became infected with the hookworm, Uncinaria lacasi, through ingestion of their mother=s milk. It was the first documented proof of transmission via milk in a natural host-parasite system.
The significance of a contribution can be measured by its impact on other publications. Quickly following Olsen and Lyons= efforts were reports describing transcolostral infections of pigs with Strongyloides ransomi (Moncol and Batte, 1966) and Ancylostoma caninum in a bitch=s milk (Stone and Girardeau, 1966 to name but a couple. Since then, a steady stream of publications have shown that milkborne transmission is an integral part of the life cycle of threadworms, hookworms, ascarids, and diplostomid flukes.
Recently, a symposium on vertical transmission
was held at which it was reported that nearly two dozen helminths
are now known to utilize milkborne transmission in the maintenance
of their life cycles (Conn, 1994; Lyons, 1994; Shoop, 1994). In
large part, this was all begun by the observations of Olsen and
Lyons.
By T. Bonner Stewart
School of Veterinary Medicine
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
and
By Wesley L. Shoop
Merck Research Laboratories
Merck & Co., Inc.
Rahway, NJ 07065
References:
Conn, D.B. 1994. J. Helminthol. Soc. Wash. 6: 162-168.
Lyons, E.T. 1994. J. Helminthol. Soc. Wash. 6: 169-178
Moncol, D.J. and E.G. Batte. 1966. Vet. Med. Small Anim. Clin. 61: 583-586.
Olsen, O.W. and E.T. Lyons. 1965. J. Parasitol. 51: 689-700.
Stone, W.M. and M.H. Girardeau. 1966. Vet. Rec. 79: 773.
Shoop, W.L. 1994. J. Helminthol. Soc.
Wash. 6: 153-161.
11. Vincke and Lips, 1948
A simple laboratory model for in vivo study of malaria had long been a dream of malariologists. Up through the 1940s, several avian models were available; however, for mammalian malaria, researchers were restricted to working with the human and simian malarias. Few laboratories could cope with the expenses involved and with the logistic and ethical requirements that inescapably restricted the kinds of research that could be done with man and monkeys. The necessity of developing and testing new anti-malarial drugs during World War II exacerbated this need for a new laboratory system of malaria.
The issue was resolved with the discovery of a rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei, in central Africa by a Belgian physician (Ignace Vinke) and entomologist (Marcel Lips) in 1948. As often occurs with important discoveries, these workers had not been searching for what they ultimately found. Vincke spent the years of World War II doing malaria surveys in the former Belgian Congo (now Zaire). In 1942 he observed sporozoites in the salivary glands of the mosquito Anopheles dureni, collected near a major mining center, Elisabethville (now Kisangani). Precipitin tests on the bloodmeal contents of the mosquitoes= midguts suggested that the mosquitoes had fed on rodents or insectivores. When Vincke and Lips had discovered a new species of malaria, P. berghei, in the blood of a tree rat, Thamnomys in 1948, they postulated that the mosquito sporozoite infection and the newly discovered blood infection were the same species. However, it was not until 1950 that Vincke was able to show that sporozoites collected from these mosquitoes produced a typical P. berghei parasitemia when injected into laboratory mice. The life cycle had been completed! Vincke named the parasite in honor of his close friend, Louis van den Berghe, of the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp.
An interesting sidelight to this discovery was the speed with which the authors felt that they had to make the announcement. An American expedition to the Sudan in 1948 had sent back information that they had discovered a new malaria parasite in the elephant shrew Elephantulus and a shipment of live shrews had been sent back to the United States. (As sometimes happens, some American newspapers had garbled the information and reported that malaria had been discovered in elephants! In retrospect, neither elephants nor elephant shrews were ultimately shown to be hosts of Plasmodium.) However, Vincke and Lips were justifiably concerned about being Ascooped@ and they searched for a means of rapid publication. By luck, the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria was convening in Washington in May 1948. It was already too late to add a Vincke and Lips paper to the agenda but van den Berghe, who already had a paper on research in the tropics, was able to append to his paper an announcement and description of this new rodent malaria parasite (van den Berghe, 1948). This was a landmark Congress. It was the first held in the Western Hemisphere and it had been 10 years since the previous one in Amsterdam, the planned intervening congresses having been canceled during World War II. In attendance were many young researchers that had recently been recruited into malariology during the war. Van den Berghe=s announcement was a seed that fell on very fertile ground. Due to the graciousness of the Belgian workers, P. berghei was soon widely distributed throughout the world and a new era in malaria research had begun.
I had the privilege of meeting Vincke
in 1964 at an International Colloquium at the Prince Leopold Institute,
commemorating the discovery of P. berghei 16 years earlier. At
that time the published bibliography of studies using P. berghei
as a model was already close to 500 papers. As part of this, we
were able to show at this Colloquium how the parasite life cycle
could be completed in mosquitoes in the laboratory (Vanderberg
and Yoeli, 1965). In the ensuing years the explosion of research
on all aspects of malaria has continued with P. berghei and other
rodent malaria parasites subsequently discovered in central Africa.
The ancient saying AEx
Africa aliquid semper novi@
was confirmed again.
By Jerome Vanderberg, Department of
Medical and Molecular Parasitology, New York University School
of Medicine, New York, NY 10016
References:
van den Berghe, L. 1948. Fourth Int. Cong. Trop. Med. Malaria, 1: 1436-1438.
Vanderberg, J.P. and M. Yoeli. 1965. Ann. Soc. Belge Med. Trop., 45: 419-426.
Vincke, I.H. and M. Lips. 1948. Ann.
Soc. Belge M'ed.
Trop. 28: 97-104.
Assistant Professor, Veterinary Parasitology.
The Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in veterinary parasitology. The successful applicant will be expected to participate in professional and graduate teaching programs, develop an extramurally supported research program, and provide assistance to the diagnostic parasitology service. Preference will be given to candidates who have expertise with parasites of domestic animals. Qualifications include DVM or an equivalent degree and a PhD degree in Parasitology. Postdoctoral experience is desirable. The position is available July 1, 1997. Applications received before June 15, 1997 are assured of full consideration. Applicants should submit curriculum vita and three letters of reference to:
Dr. Donald L. Dawe, Chair, Search Committee,
Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of
Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7386.
E-mail address, dawe.d@calc.vet.uga.edu. Fax: (706) 542-5233.
The University of Georgia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action employer and applications from women and minorities are
encouraged.
Lynn Cooper, student member of ASP and
graduate student in the Department of Entomology, at the University
of Maryland at College Park, was recently awarded a certificate
and $500 for the best presentation by a student at the national
meeting of the American Mosquito Control Association held in Salt
Lake City. Lynn=s
paper was entitled AGenetic
Drift Affects the Replication of Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis
Virus in Birds and Mosquitoes@
The International Conference on Trichinellosis has recently established a web site. Comments, contributions and criticisms are solicited, and may be sent by e-mail to Dr. Fabrizio Bruschi or Silvano Pagnotta at <ict@krenet.it>. The ICT web site can be reached at <http://WWW.krenet.it.ict>.
Listed below are recent publications
of possible interest to ASP members.
1. Listados Faunisticos de MJxico:
VI. Helmintos Par<sitos
de Peces de Aguas Continentales de MJxico,
G. PJrez-Ponce
de Le\n,
L. Garcia, D. Osorio and V. Le\n,
1996, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Aut\noma
de MJxico,
100 pages, U.S. $15 (plus shipping), ISBN 968-36-5100-3. Direct
orders via e-mail to Dra Hilda Flores <sectec@mail.ibiologia.unam.mx>
2. Antisense Therapeutics, M.S. Brown
and A. MacLean (eds), Humana Press -Methods in Molecular Medicine
Series, 1996, 325 pages, $99.50, ISBN 0-89603-305-8.
3. Vaccine Protocols, A. Robinson, G.
Farrar and C. Wiblin (eds), Humana Press-Methods in Molecular
Medicine Series, 1996, 352 pages, $89, ISBN 0-89603-334-1.
4. Molecular Diagnosis of Infectious
Diseases, U. Reischl (ed), Humana Press-Methods in Molecular Medicine
Series, May 1997, 416 pages, comb: $69.50, hardcover: $99.50,
ISBN 0-89603-398-8 (comb), 0-89603-485-2.
5. Species Diagnostics Protocols: PCR
and Other Nucleic Acid Methods, J. Clapp (ed), Humana Press-Methods
in Molecular Biology Series, 440 pages, $69.50 (comb), ISBN 0-89603-323-6.
6. Cryopreservation and Freeze-Drying
Protocols, J. Day and M. McLellan, Humana Press-Methods in Molecular
Biology Series, 1995, 254 pages, $79.50 (comb), ISBN 0-89603-296-5.
7. Cytokine Knockouts, S. Durum and
K. Muegge (eds), Humana Press-Contemporary Immunology Series,
April 1997, 356 pages, $125 (hardcover), ISBN 0-89603-368-6.
8. ELISA, J. Crowther, Humana Press-Methods
in Molecular Biology Series, 1995, 256 pages, $59.50 (comb), ISBN
0-89603-279-5.
9. Antibody Engineering Protocols, S.
Paul (ed), Humana Press-Methods in Molecular Biology Series, 1995,
460 pages, $69.50 (comb), ISBN 0-89603-275-2.
10. Monoclonal Antibody Protocols, W.
Davis (ed), Humana Press-Methods in Molecular Biology Series,
1995, 274 pages, $64.50 (comb), ISBN 0-89603-308-2.
A new 5-part video on the diagnosis
and pathology of parasitic diseases in humans by Dr. Omar M. Amin,
Director of the Institute of Parasitic Diseases (IPD) and Professor
at Arizona State University, has just been released. The IPD (Box
28372, Tempe AZ 85285; telephone, 602-955-4211) provides diagnostic
and educational services for over 650 physicians from the USA
and abroad. The videos are based on hundreds of color slides of
various diagnostic and pathological aspects of parasitic infections
from throughout the world. Part I: Introduction, Protozoa (Sarcodina,
Mastigophora); Part II: Protozoa (Mastigophora, Infusaria, Sporozoa),
stool contaminants; Part III: Nematoda; Part IV: Nematoda, Cestoda,
Trematoda; Part V: Arthropoda (Insecta, Arachnida). Parts I to
IV, one hour each; Part V, 14 minutes. The videos are produced
by the Center for Human Functioning International, Inc., 3100
N. Hillside Ave., Wichita, KS USA 67219 at a prerelease cost of
$249.95 US. To order call 1-800-447-7276.
Eight nonprofit and community organizations in North Carolina have been awarded a total of approximately $1.2 million to provide creative science enrichment activities for students in the sixth through twelfth grades. The awards, which provide up to $180,000 over three years, were made by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities.
The science enrichment programs will enable thousands of students to participate in a variety of hands-on Ainquiry-based@ avenues of exploration - an educational approach that has proven to be the best way to increase students= understanding of science. The program will, it is hoped, nurture the students= enthusiasm about science, expose them the excitement of scientific discovery, stimulate their curiosities, and interest them in pursuing careers in research or a variety of other science-related careers.
AFew U.S. students are broadly trained in science, and the public at large has a generally poor understanding of many science concepts. Thus, we need to support talented students who have demonstrated an interest in science and who enlarge the pool of students exposed to science and the investigative process,@ says Fund President Dr. Enriqueta C. Bond. ABWF=s awards go to model programs across the state that will encourage students to realize an interest in science, which we believe will help them both in their career opportunities and in their role as citizens who must participate in making public decisions about issues involving science and medicine.@
The Student Science Enrichment Program awards, provided in 1997 for the second year, are the cornerstone of the Fund=s efforts to help improve science education.
The academic performance of North Carolina students in the areas of science and mathematics is improving at a steady, albeit slow, pace. Still, the state=s students continue to lag behind young people in most other states and in many developed countries around the world.
Through its awards, BWF is seeking to encourage the widespread use of creative inquiry-based science education, to foster the development of effective materials and methods for teaching science, and to involve a broad spectrum of the state=s population in working toward educational reform.
AThe Fund=s financial resources are not sufficient to change the nation, but we feel that the programs can produce measurable results on a smaller scale - our home state of North Carolina - that will directly and immediately affect real students in real schools,@ Dr. Bond says. AOur broader goal is to see the lessons learned from these programs incorporated into nationwide efforts to improve science and mathematics education - at all levels, in all schools, and beyond the classroom doors.@
BWF will make its next round of Student
Science Enrichment Program awards in 1998. The deadline for applying
for the awards, which are limited to nonprofit organizations in
North Carolina, is October 15, 1997. Application materials are
available from the Fund. For information contact: Tom Burroughs,
Communications Manager. Telephone: (919) 991-5119. E-mail: tburroughs@bwfund.org
American Society of Parasitologists
Meeting Schedule:
June 24-28, 1997: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
1998, dates TBA: Kona Surf Resort, HAWAII!!!
1999, dates TBA: Joint Meeting with the Society of Nematologists, University of California, San Francisco, CA
2000, dates TBA: Joint Meeting with the Society of Protozoologists, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Contact: Dr. George Cain, Secretary-Treasurer,
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City,
Iowa, USA. Telephone: (319) 335-1061. FAX: (319) 335-1069. E-mail:
george-cain@uiowa.edu
The Role of Chemokines in Leucocyte Trafficking and Disease
March 31-April 5, 1997: Copper Mountain, Colorado
Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630,
Silverthorne, CO 80498 Telephone: (800) 253-0685. Fax: (970) 262-1525.
E-mail: keystone@symposia.com
The Fourth International Symposium on Ectoparasites of Pets
April 6-8, 1997: University of California, Riverside, CA
Contact: Dr. N.C. Hinkle, Department
of Entomology, UCR, Riverside, CA 92521. Telephone: (909) 787-2422.
E-mail: nhinkle@citrus.ucr.edu
Tolerance and Immunity
April 13-19, 1997: Keystone, Colorado
Contact: Keystone Symposia (see above)
Annual Spring Meeting of the British Society for Parasitology
April 7-10, 1997: University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK
Contact: Dr. Richard Grencis, Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PT. Tel: 0161-275-5238. FAX: 0161-275-5640. E-mail: rgrencis@fs2.scg.man.ac.uk
1997 Annual Meeting of the Association of Systematics Collections
April 24-26, 1997: Atlanta, Georgia
Contact: ASC, 1725 K Street N.W., Suite
601, Washington, D.C. 20006-1401. Tele: (202) 835-9050. FAX: (202)
835-7334. E-mail: asc@ascoll.org
The 7th East Coast Protistology Conference
May 21-23, 1997: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Contact: Dr. Linda Hufnagel, Department
of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University
of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. Telephone: (401) 874-5918. E-mail:
aun103@uriacc.uri.edu
42nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists.
July 19-22, 1997: Reno, Nevada
Contact: Lou Gasbarre, AAVP Program Chair,
USDA-ARS, LPSI, IDRL, Bldg 1002, Beltsville,
MD 20705. Telephone: (301) 504-8509. Fax: (301) 504-5306 E-mail:
LGASBARR@GGPL.ARSUSDA.GOV or Tom Kennedy, AAVP Secretary-Treasurer,
Mallinckrodt Veterinary, Inc., 421 East Hawley Street, Mundelein,
IL 60060.
10th International Congress of Protozoology
July 21-25, 1997: University of Sidney, Sidney, Australia
Contact: Prof. David J. Patterson, School of Biological Sciences AO8, University of Sidney,
NSW 2006 Australia. Telephone: (+612)
351 2438. FAX: (+612) 351 4119. E-mail: DJP@bio.usyd.edu.au
World Conference of the International Society for Molecular Nutrition and Therapy
August 2-4, 1997: Winnipeg, Canada
Contact: Dr. Grant N. Pierce, Institute
of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Research Center,
351 Tache Ave., Winnipeg, MB Canada R2H 2A6
16th International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology
August 10-15, 1997: Sun City, South Africa
Contact: 16th WAAVP Conference, Event
Dynamics, P.O. Box 567, Strathavon, 2031, Republic of South Africa.
Telephone: +27-11-883-6155. FAX: +27-11-883-9643.
Malaria Meeting of the British Society for Parasitology
September 8-10, 1997: University of Liverpool, UK
Contact: Prof. Marcel Hommel, Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine, Pembrooke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA.
Tel: 0151-708-9393. FAX: 0151-708-8733. E-mail: mhommel@liv.ac.uk
Autumn Symposium of the British Society for
Parasitology: Insect-Parasite Interaction - Reciprocal Manipulation
September 19, 1997: The City University, London, UK
Contact: Dr. Hilary Hurd, Department
of Biological Sciences, Center for Applied Entomology and Parasitology,
Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG. Tel: 01782-583-034.
FAX: 01782-630-007. E-mail: h.hurd@keele.ac.uk
Second International Congress of Vector Ecology
October 19-24, 1997: Holiday Inn International Drive Resort, Orlando, FL
Contact: Gilbert L. Challet, Secretary-Treasurer,
P.O. Box 87, Santa Ana, CA 92702, USA. Tel: (714) 971-2421, Ext.
148. FAX: (714) 971-3940.
Central American Congress for Microbiology (XIth. International: Clinical and Applied Microbiology
November 23-27, 1997: Guatemala City, Guatemala
Contact: Licda. Olga Torres, INCAP, Apartado Postal 1188, 01901 Guatemala, GUATEMALA, C.A. Telephone: (502) 472-3762 to 67. Fax: (502) 473-6529. E-mail: otorres@incap.org.gt.
http://www.uvg.edu.gt/noticias/ccamicro.
46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
December 7-11, 1997: Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando, Florida.
Contact: ASTMH, 60 Revere Dr., Suite
500, Northbrook, IL 60062. Fax: (847) 480-9282.
Annual Midwestern Conference of Parasitologists
Helminthological Society of Washington
New Jersey Society for Parasitology
Northern California Society for Parasitologists
Parasitology Section, Canadian Society of Zoologists
Rocky Mountain Conference of Parasitologists
Southeastern Society of Parasitologists
Southern California Society of Parasitologists
Southwestern Association of Parasitologists
George L. Stewart
Center for Parasitology
Box 19498
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
Tele: (817) 272-2423
Fax: (817) 272-2855
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Dr. Robert B. Grieve, President
Heska
1825 Sharp Point Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Tele: (970) 493-7272
Fax: (970) 493-7333
e-mail: griever@heska.com
Dr. George D. Cain, Secretary-Treasurer
Department of Biology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Tele: (319) 335-1061
Fax: (319) 335-1069
e-mail: george-cain@uiowa.edu
H.R. Gamble
USDA,ARS,LPSI
Helminthic Diseases Laboratory
Building 1040, Room 2, BARC-East
Beltsville, MD 20705
Tele: (301) 504- 8220
Fax: (301) 504-5306
Michael W. Kemp
Department of Biology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
Tele: (409) 845-3353
Fax: (409) 845-6077
Karl A. Western
6436 31st Street NW
Washington, DC 20015
Tele: (301) 496-6721
Fax: (301) 402-3255
George A. Conder, Industrial Liaison
Clinical Project Manager
Animal Health Product Development
Central Research Division
Pfizer Inc.
Eastern Point Road
Groton, CT 06340
Tele: (203) 441-4576
Fax: (203) 441- 4786
CORRESPONDENTS
Mark A. Farmer
Department of Zoology
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
Tele: (404) 542-4080
Fax: (404) 542-4271
Tonie Rocke
National Wildlife Health Research Lab
6006 Shroeder Road
Madison, WI 53711
Tele: (608) 271-4640
Fax: (608) 264-5431