Meeting Message

Tue Apr 12 19:48:51 BRT 1994

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From: "Ragan, Mark A." <Mark at imb.lan.nrc.ca>
To: jeffrey at ftpt.br
Subject: Could you please post this announcement?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 09:22:00 EDT

              I N T E R N A T I O N A L   S O C I E T Y   F O R
              E V O L U T I O N A R Y   P R O T I S T O L O G Y

                               I S E P - 1 0

You are invited to participate in ISEP-10, the tenth biennial meeting of
the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, which will be held
from Thursday morning, 4 August through Wednesday afternoon, 10 August 1994
at Dalhousie University in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The first day of ISEP-10 will feature a workshop on Aquatic Parasitic and
Pathogenic Protists.  Some of the most economically important protists are
the unusual (and often poorly understood) parasites of fish and shellfish:
myxosporidia, microsporidia, apicomplexans, chytrid-like organisms, and many
more.  Toxic phytoplankton are likewise of increasing economic and public-
health concern.  This workshop will feature three or four invited lectures,
plus contributed papers and posters.  A dinner/reception afterwards, at the
Saraguay Club on the shore of Halifax's Northwest Arm, will serve both as
the opening mixer for ISEP, and as an unparalleled opportunity for fisheries
scientists and managers to meet ISEP members (and vice-versa).

Sessions on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday will consist of minisymposia
(see below), workshops, the President's address, the keynote lecture, numerous
contributed papers, and posters.  The symposium banquet will be held Monday
evening at the Halifax Sheraton, overlooking the historic downtown waterfront.
Sunday is being reserved as a free day; excursions to Peggy's Cove (scenic
fishing village), Lunenburg (settled by Germans in early 1800s), and the
Carboniferous fossil cliffs at Joggins are planned; or registrants may explore
downtown Halifax on their own.  The popular International Buskers Festival,
with street artists, musicians and performers from four continents, will
be held throughout the downtown from 4-14 August.

The last day of ISEP-10 is also the first day of the 1993 meeting of the
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's Program in Evolutionary Biology;
the two groups will meet jointly.  The morning features a minisymposium on
Evolution of Unusual Molecular Processes in Protists; six invited speakers
will discuss the phylogenetic origin and evolutionary significance of trans-
splicing, RNA editing, large-scale genomic rearrangements, intracellular
gene transfer, and other fascinating processes unique to, or especially well-
studied in, protists.  The afternoon features a minisymposium on origin of
sex in protists.

The ISEP-10 Second Circular (with registration forms) is now available from
the Secretariat (address and numbers below).  The conference registration fee,
which includes the opening buffet/mixer, is Can$ 160 (about US$ 115).

Accommodations are available in Shirreff Hall on the Dalhousie Campus.  The
rates are Can$ 34.44 per night (Can$ 195.97 per week) for single rooms,
Can$ 51.07 per night (Can$ 294.85 per week) for twin rooms, including all
taxes and breakfast.  Apartment-style accommodations suitable for families
are also available in Fenwick Tower, a 20-minute walk from campus, at rates
approximately 15-25% below those for Shirreff Hall (Can$ 1.00 = approximately
US$ 0.75).

The meals plan, providing light lunches (except Sunday) and Friday evening
dinner at the University Club, is available for an additional Can$ 85.  The
conference banquet (Monday evening) costs Can$ 37.  Otherwise, registrants
will be "on their own" to sample the wide variety of fine restaurants in
nearby downtown Halifax (within walking distance, or 5-10 minutes by city bus)

CIAR-1994 (11-14 August 1994) is open only to program members and invited
guests.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:  ISEP-10 Secretariat, NRC Institute for Marine
    Biosciences, 1411 Oxford St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada  B3H 3Z1.
    Tel: 902-426-1674;  fax: 902-426-9413;  e-mail MARK at IMB.LAN.NRC.CA.

ISEP-10 Organizing Committee:  Susan E. Douglas (NRC Institute for Marine
    Biosciences, Paul X.-Q. Liu (Dalhousie University), Carol A. Morrison
    (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), Mark A. Ragan (NRC Institute for Marine
    Biosciences, chairman).

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                      ISEP-10  PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE

               (not including contributed-paper sessions)

WORKSHOP ON AQUATIC PARASITIC AND PATHOGENIC PROTISTS (Thursday, 4 August
1994)

[ With financial support from Canadian Institute of Biotechnology, Fisheries
and Oceans Canada, and National Research Council of Canada ]

organizers:    Carol A. Morrison (Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Halifax)
               Sharon McGladdery (Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Moncton)
               Allan D. Cembella (NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences)

confirmed:     Elizabeth Canning (Imperial College)
               Michael Kent (Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Nanaimo)
               Jiri Lom (Czech Academy of Sciences)
               Frank O. Perkins (Virginia Inst. of Marine Science)

MINISYMPOSIUM: THE CYTOSKELETON IN PROTIST EVOLUTION: A MOLECULAR
PERSPECTIVE  (Friday, 5 August 1994)

organizer:     Michael Melkonian (Universitaet Koeln)

confirmed:     Debashish Bhattacharya (Universitaet Koeln)
               David I. Meyer (University of California at Los Angeles)
               Carolyn Silflow (University of Minnesota)
               Jutta Steinkoetter (Universitaet Koeln)

KEYNOTE LECTURE (date not yet decided)

confirmed:     John O. Corliss (University of Maryland, retired)

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS (probably Monday, 8 August 1994)

confirmed:     Michael Melkonian (Universitaet Koln)

MINISYMPOSIUM: PROTEIN SEQUENCES AS MARKERS IN PROTIST EVOLUTION (Tuesday,
9 August 1994)

organizer:     Miklos Mueller (The Rockefeller University)

confirmed:     Andre Adoutte (Universite Paris-Sur, Orsay)
               Paul A.M. Michels (International Institute of Cellular &
                  Molecular Pathology, Brussels)
               William Martin (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig)
               Miklos Mueller (The Rockefeller University)
               Andrew Roger (Dalhousie University)
               Claudia Woestmann (Universitaet Osnabrueck)

SPECIAL LECTURE (Wednesday, 10 August 1994)

confirmed:     J. William Schopf (University of California at Los Angeles)

WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTION OF UNUSUAL MOLECULAR PROCESSES IN PROTISTS (with CIAR;
Wednesday, 10 August 1994)

organizer:     Laura Landweber (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts
                  General Hospital)

confirmed:     Jean Feagin (Seattle Biomedical Research Institute)
               Michael W. Gray (Dalhousie University)
               Richard B. Hallick (University of Arizona)
               Laura Landweber (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts
                 General Hospital)
               Dimitri Maslov (University of California at Los Angeles)
               David M. Prescott (University of Colorado)

WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTION OF SEX IN PROTISTS (with CIAR; 10 August 1994)

organizers:    Rosemary Redfield (University of British Columbia)
               Donal Hickey (University of Ottawa)

confirmed:     Elizabeth U. Canning (Imperial College)
               Tom Cavalier-Smith (University of British Columbia)
               Lynda J. Goff (University of California at Santa Cruz)
               Laurence Hurst (Cambridge University)
               Lynn Margulis (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

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