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The number of world wide web sites having some relation to cyanobacteria, more than 1700 at last count, has grown far beyond the abilities of anyone to comprehend them all. Most sites, however, merely mention cyanobacteria, either as part of a description of a person's research interests, as part of a class syllabus, etc. Some sites, of more general interest, are given below. The list must be considered only a sampling of what is available.
CCAP SITE: Homepage of the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, centered at the Windermere Laboratory, U.K. Provides a searchable on line description of strains held by the collection [see below]. Also contains recipies for growth media and instructions on how to order strains. http://wiua.nwi.ac.uk/ccap/ccaphome.html
CDAC SITE: Homepage of the Czechoslovak Database of Algae and Cyanobacteria. http://www.bdt.org.br/bdt/msdn/ccala/
UCMP BACTERIA SITE: The University of California Museum of Paleontology has an online collection of articles and pictures of bacteria, including many entries on cyanobacterially related subjects. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria
PHOTOSYNTHESIS SITE: Arizona State University, Departments of Botany and Chemistry and Biochemistry run a site devoted to photosynthesis. It includes an extensive directory of e-mail addresses and list of upcoming meetings. http://Photoscience.La.Asu.Edu/Photosyn
CYANOSITE: provides useful protocols and other matters cyanobacterial, including directories of cyanobacteriologists and back issues of this newsletter. http://WWW-Cyanosite.Bio.Purdue.Edu
CYANOBASE SITE: Information regarding the Synechocystis PCC 6803 genome [see NEWS] and much else. Reports analysis of the currently available sequence and permits similarity search with sequences provided by visitors. Includes access to many if not all known cyanobacterial sequences and a search engine to help you find what you want. Displays a circular map of the genome and phylogenetic trees based on several gene sequences. Provides links to many other databases with prokaryotic sequences. http://www.kazusa.or.jp/cyano/cyano.html
TOXIC CYANOBACTERIA SITE: Houses a bulletin boards for announcements, informational entries (including graphics) on microcystins, anatoxin, nodularin, protein phosphatases, and Microcystis aeruginosa, and a debate on the merits/risks of ingesting Super Blue Green Algae (Aphanizomenon flos-aquae). Provides links to two related discussion groups: Phycotoxin and Cyano-tox. http://Luff.Latrobe.Edu.Au/~BotBML/Cyanotox.Html
RRNA SITE: A compilation of ribosomal RNA sequences, including 38 of cyanobacterial origin. Makes available a program to facilitate construction of trees, to align multiple sequences, and to draw secondary structures. http://www-rrna.uia.ac.be/
CYANOBACTERIA INTERNATIONAL SITE: I haven't figured this one out yet, except to realize that it hasn't anything to do with cyanobacteria as we know them. The site collects literature from Cyanobacteria Publications which, by its own description, conducts "a gyrovague experiment operating upon the chromosomes of beauty and information." http://www.thing.net/~grist/homecyan.htm
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Peter Wolk wants to find strains that both (i) form akinetes specifically adjacent to heterocysts, and (ii) grow to visible colonies within five days.
CONTACT: Peter Wolk, MSU-PRL Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 U.S.A. TEL: 1-517-353-2049, FAX: 517-353-9168, E-MAIL: 22333CPW@Msu.Edu
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BIOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS (ISBN: 0-7923-3642-9), edited by Jan Amesz and Arnold Hoff has just been released by Kluwer Academic Publishers (1996) as Volume 3 in the series "Advances in Photosynthesis". Its 24 chapters encompass spectroscopic and magnetic resonance techniques as well as those aimed at elucidating structure or measuring oxygen evolution.
CONTACT: Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS E-MAIL: Services@Wkap.NL or Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A. TEL: 1-617-871-6600, FAX: 1-617-871-6528, E-MAIL: Kluwer@World.Std.Com
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The Proceedings are now available from a workshop entitled TOXIC CYANOBACTERIA: CURRENT STATUS OF RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT. The workshop, held March, 1994 in Adelaide, Australia, covered various aspects of concern to the researcher and manager of water quality, including monitoring and analysis, health effects and risk assessment, control and removal of toxins, and management issues. The proceedings include contributions from Wayne Carmichael, Geoff Codd, Ian Falconer, Ken-ichi Harada, Gary Jones, Mick Pearson, and Shun-Zhang Yu. The cost of the proceedings is AUS$50 (check should be payable to "Workshop Proceedings").
CONTACT: Australian Water Quality Centre, Private Mail Bag 3, Salisbury, SA, 51 08, Australia; or Brenton Nicholson. TEL: 61-8-259-0246, FAX: 61-8-259-0228, E-MAIL: Brenton.Nicholson@Sawater.Sa.Gov.Au
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Strains are available for a fee of œ21 per 10 ml for academic institutions. The strain list can be searched at the CCAP web site (see above). Alternatively, hard copies of the Catalogue are available for œ7.00. A list of freshwater cyanobacterial strains can be obtained by anonymous FTP at the site Cyanonew@Servax.Fiu.Edu (password: Bluegreen). Download CCAP-CB.Asc (pure text).
The CCAP also holds the Fritsch Collection of Illustrations of Freshwater Algae, some 500,000 published figures of taxonomic or floristic significance. They are taken from over 15,000 works and cover over 2,500 genera. A fiche edition has been published.
CONTACT: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Windermere Laboratory, Far Sawrey, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 0LP, UK. TEL: 44-15394-42468, FAX: 44-15394-46914, E-MAIL: CCAP@ife.ac.uk, WEB: http://wiua.nwi.ac.uk/ccap/ccaphome.html or (for edition of Fritsch illustrations): Inter Documentation Company bv, PO Box 11205, 2301EE Leiden, NETHERLANDS
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(Anyone wishing to contribute a report on any meeting of cyanobacterial relevance is cordially invited to do so!)
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The 1st EUROPEAN PHYCOLOGICAL CONGRESS Cologne will meet 11-18 Aug 1996, Cologne, Germany.
CONTACT: Congress Secretariat, M. Melkonian, Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Albertus Magnus Platz, D-50923 Cologne, GERMANY. TEL: 49-221-4702475, FAX: 49-221-4705181, E-MAIL: MMelkon@Biolan.Uni-Koeln.De
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The 9th EUROPEAN BIOENERGETICS CONFERENCE (EBEC) is scheduled for 17-22 Aug 1996 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. This conference has not previously paid a great deal of attention to cyanobacteria, but this year it will have at least one session, entitled "Archaebacteria, extremophiles and cyanobacteria"
CONTACT: Congress Secretariat, A.-M. Corbisier-Colson, Unite de Genetique, UCL (Universite catholique de Louvain), Place Croix du Sud 4-5, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, BELGIUM. TEL: 32-10-478261, FAX: 32-10-473742.
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The 12th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON PHOTOBIOLOGY will be held 1-6 Sept 1996 in Vienna, Austria. The congress will include two sessions, entitled "Antenna systems and Energy Transfer" and "Reaction Centers and Electron Transfer", in which cyanobacteria will be well represented.
CONTACT: Scientific and Administrative Secretariat, Vienna Academy of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Alser Strasse 4, A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA. TEL: 43-1-405138313, FAX: 43-1-405138323, E-MAIL: Medacad@via.at
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SYMBIOSIS 96! will bring together investigators who apply modern techniques to the study of diverse symbiotic associations on 5-8 Sept 1996 in Bar Harbor, Maine.
CONTACT: Paul Baumann, Microbiology Section, University of California, Davis CA 95616-9665 TEL: 1-916-752-0272, FAX: 1-916-752-9014, E-MAIL: PABaumann@UCDavis.Edu WEB: http://Wolbachia.Med.Yale.Edu
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An INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CYANOBACTERIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY will take place 18- 21 Sept 1996 in Tiruchirapalli, India. The emphasis of the meeting will be on environmentally sustainable utilization of cyanobacteria for human welfare.
CONTACT: G. Subramanain, Director, NFMC, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli - 620 024, INDIA. TEL: 91-431-60352, FAX: 91-431-60245 or 91-431-60320, E-MAIL: bdasan@iitm.ernet.in
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A one day conference entitled ALGAL MODELING: PROCESSES AND MANAGEMENT will be held 19 Sept 1996, at the University of Reading, England. Registration is œ40 or $60 US. The conference includes talks on modeling algal behavior and the management of algal problems.
CONTACT: Alan Howard, Aquatic Environments Research Centre, Dept Geography, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AB, England, U.K. (Tel) XXX (E-mail) A.Howard@Reading.Ac.Uk (WWW) http://www.rdg.ac.uk/geog/conference.html
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The 11TH AUSTRALIAN NITROGEN FIXATION CONFERENCE will focus on N2-fixing symbioses at its meeting in Perth, Australia, 22-27 September 1996. While the conference will stress the role of leguminous plants in sustainable agriculture, cyanobacterial symbioses may also find a place in the proceedings.
CONTACT: The Secretary, Australian Society for Nitrogen Fixation, Centre For Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6907, AUSTRALIA. FAX: 61-9-380-1140, E-MAIL: Asnf@Cyllene.Uwa.Edu.Au
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Those who like their nitrogen meetings without competition from Rhizobia might check out the 7th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION WITH NON-LEGUMES 16-21 October 1996 in Pakistan.
CONTACT: National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) P.O. Box 577, Jhang Road Faisalabad, PAKISTAN, TEL: 41-65-1471 or 41-651475-79, FAX: 41-65-1472, E-MAIL: Kauser@Nibge.Lke.imran.Pk
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MYCOTOXINS AND PHYCOTOXINS will be the focus of a Gordon Conference to be held in North Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A. 22-27 June 1997.
CONTACT: Wanda Haschek-Hock, Dept. of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois, 2001 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 U.S.A. TEL: 1-217-333-2449, FAX: 1-217-333-7421, E-MAIL: WHaschek@Uiuc.Edu
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For those looking ahead, the IXth INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PHOTOTROPHIC PROKARYOTES is set for 6-12 September 1997, University of Vienna, Austria. The first circular will soon be sent out. You may also get a copy of it by FTP at the site Cyanonew@Servax.Fiu.Edu (password: Bluegreen). Download either ISPP.Doc (an MS-Word document) or ISPP.Asc (pure text). WARNING: Those who have already sent an E-mail request to receive the first circular should send another request, because a hardware error erased your names!
CONTACT: Symposium Secretariat, IXth ISPP Vienna 1997, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Vienna, UZA2, Althanstrasse 14, A- 1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA. E-MAIL: Georg.Schmetterer@UniVie.Ac.At
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POSITION OFFERED: Post-Doc CONTACT: Bridgette Barry, Gortner Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 U.S.A. TEL: 1-612-624-6732, FAX: 1-612-625-5780, E-MAIL: Barry@Molbio.Cbs.Umn.Edu RESEARCH: Study the structure and function of the photosynthetic water oxidizing complex. Techniques to be employed include infrared and EPR spectroscopy as well as site directed mutagenesis. REQUIREMENTS: Background in chemistry, biochemistry, or biophysics. AVAILABLE: Fall 1996. SEND: CV and three reference letters.
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POSITION OFFERED: Post-Doc CONTACT: Michael Schaefer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5007 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 U.S.A. TEL: 1-816-235-2573, E-MAIL: MSchaefer@Cctr.Umkc.Edu RESEARCH: Molecular basis of photoperception and signal transduction involved in complementary chromatic adaptation by Fremyella diplosiphon (Calothrix PCC 7601) REQUIREMENTS: Experience in molecular biology, biochemistry and microbial genetics AVAILABLE: Immediately SEND: CV and three letters of recommendation
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POSITION OFFERED: Post-Doc CONTACT: Fevzi Daldal, University of Pennsylvania, Plant Science Institute, Dept. of Biology, 204 Mudd Building, Philadelphia PA 19104-6019. TEL: 1-215-898-4394, FAX: 1-215-898-8780, E-MAIL: FDaldal@Sas.UPenn.Edu RESEARCH: Biochemical molecular genetics of cytochromes and cytochrome compexes of photosynthetic bacteria. [See J Bacteriol (1995) 177:608- 613; Biochem (1995) 34:15979-16012; Biochem (1994) 33:3120-3127; Chapter 36 of Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria] REQUIREMENTS: Solid background and experience in either molecular genetics and protein purification techniques or spectroscopy and computer modeling methods; a genuine interest in structure, function biogenesis and regulation of microbial energy transduction complexes. SEND: CV, description of research accomplishments, and reference letters.
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