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  • Posted on the noticeboard.  1 May 1998.

    • Third Announcement & Registration(30 April, 1998)

    4th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria

    27 September-1 October, 1998 Duke University Marine Laboratory,

    Beaufort, North Carolina, USA

    Conference Co-Chairs: Hans W. Paerl & Wayne W. Carmichael

    Conference web page now available:  http://www.marine.unc.edu/cyano.html

  • Posted on the noticeboard.  12 March 1998.

    • UPDATE ON

    THE VIth CYANOBACTERIAL WORKSHOP

    "EXPLOITING THE CYANOBACTERIAL GENOME"

    JULY 24-27, 1998

    ASILOMAR CONFERENCE CENTER
    PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA

    Co-organizers: Susan Golden (sgolden@tamu.edu) and Stephanie
    Curtis (securtis@ncsu.edu)

    INFORMATION ON PRE-REGISTRATION IS NOW
    AVAILABLE  AT THE CONFERENCE  WEB SITE AT
    http://www.bio.tamu.edu/cyano/.

    THE PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED
    TO APRIL 15, 1998.


     
  • Posted on the noticeboard.  4 March 1998.

    •  

    ***SECOND CIRCULAR ***

    THE VIth CYANOBACTERIAL WORKSHOP

    "EXPLOITING THE CYANOBACTERIAL GENOME"

    JULY 24-27, 1998

    ASILOMAR CONFERENCE CENTER
    PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA
     

    Co-organizers: Susan Golden (sgolden@tamu.edu) and Stephanie Curtis
    (securtis@ncsu.edu)

    REGISTRATION, HOUSING AND ABSTRACT INFORMATION WILL BE
    AVAILABLE at the conference web site at http://www.bio.tamu.edu/cyano/.  Please
    note that this site is still under construction.  Registration is limited to 130 participants.
    To facilitate accommodation of as many laboratories as possible, interested participants
    will be asked to pre-register, and those accepted will be notified electronically and
    sent registration and housing information. If necessary, the number of registrants from
    a single lab may be capped to allow as many laboratories as possible to be represented.

    We expect support from the National Science Foundation to aid a LIMITED
    number of student participants, and are seeking additional funds from corporate
    sponsors.

    DEADLINES:
    Pre-registration:                April 1, 1998
    Registration and abstract:  May 15, 1998
    Housing:                            June 12, 1998

    CONFERENCE COSTS:
    Registration:                          $  65
    Housing (Room and Board):  $235 (double occupancy)


     
  • Posted on the noticeboard. 17 December 1997.

    • PhD STUDENTSHIP

    Dr. Glen Shaw of the National Research Centre for Environmental
    Toxicology in Brisbane just received an ARC SPIRT grant to investigate
    formation of  byproducts from treatment of water containing cyanobacterial
    toxins and a toxicological evaluation of the treated waters. Glen is after
    a PhD candidate to commence early in 1998.

    Glen can contacted by e-mail on g.shaw@mailbox.uq.edu.au
    or by telephone on +61 (07) 32749120


     
  • Posted on the noticeboard. 17 December 1997.

    • ***FIRST CIRCULAR ***

    THE VIth CYANOBACTERIAL WORKSHOP

    "EXPLOITING THE CYANOBACTERIAL GENOME"

    JULY 24-27, 1998

    ASILOMAR CONFERENCE CENTER
    PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA

    Co-organizers: Susan Golden and Stephanie Curtis

    The 2nd circular will be sent in February, 1998 and
    will contain registration information. If you are
    interested in attending the conference and would
    like to receive the 2nd circular, please
    contact (preferably by email):

    Stephanie Curtis
    Department of Genetics
    Box 7614
    North Carolina State University
    Raleigh, NC 27695-7614 USA
    email: securtis@ncsu.edu
    phone: (919) 515-2291


     
  • Posted on the noticeboard. 15 August 1997.

    • INVITATION TO SUBMIT

    This is an invitation to toxic cyanobacterial researchers to submit papers for a special issue of "Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality".

    The Journal "Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality" will be devoting a whole issue in 1998 to research into toxic cyanobacteria. Professor Ian Falconer (University of Adelaide), an Associate Editor of the journal has been asked to compile and edit the issue.

    The papers will be refereed in the usual way, and the Journal reserves the right to be selective.

    This message is an invitation to toxic cyanobacterial researchers to submit papers to Professor Falconer for consideration for this special issue, by the end of December 1997.

    Contact:
    Prof. Ian Falconer
    e-mail: ifalconer@medicine.adelaide.edu.au
    Fax: +61 8 83034257


     
  • Posted on the noticeboard. 15 July 1997.

    • CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

    Dear Colleagues:

    The Organizing Committees of the Second European Phycological Congress (EPC 2) and the 8th International Conference on Applied Algology (8th ICAA) are pleased to announce that both meetings will be held in Montecatini Terme (Italy), the EPC 2 on 20-26 September and the 8th ICAA on 26 September - 1 October 1999. You are cordially invited to participate and take this unique opportunity for meeting a broad forum of scientists interested in basic and applied phycology.

    The first circular will be mailed in May 1998.

    EPC 2 Secretariat:
    Prof. Francesco Cinelli
    Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Uomo e dell Ambiente
    Universit` di Pisa
    Via A. Volta, 6; I-56126 Pisa, Italy
    Tel: + 39 50 23054; Fax: + 39 50 49694
    E-mail: cinelli@discat.unipi.it

    8th ICAA Secretariat:
    Prof. Mario Tredici
    Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie
    Alimentari e Microbiologiche - Universit` di Firenze
    P.le delle Cascine, 27
    I-50144 Firenze, Italy
    Tel: + 39 55 3288306
    Fax: + 39 55 330431

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    These announcements were last updated on May 1st 1998.