[leish-l] Fwd: tdr> Conference on Emerging Diseases, U of Illinois

[Jeffrey Jon Shaw]

>From: Roberto Docampo <rodoc at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: tdr> Conference on Emerging Diseases, U of Illinois
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>We are pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Conference on New and
>Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases.  This two-day meeting will be held
>April 18-19, 2002, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On
>April 18,we will have two keynote speakers:  Dr. Beatrice H. Hahn, from
>the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at
>Birmingham, Birmingham, AL will talk about "SIV reservoirs and human
>zoonottic risk" and Dr. Dr. Matthew K. Waldor, from the Howard Hughes
>Medical Institute, Division of Geographic Medicine/Infectious Diseases,
>New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine,
>Boston, MA, will talk about "Cholera toxin".  On April 19, we will have
>morning and afternoon sessions of invited presentations and on-going
>poster displays. Invited speakers and topics include: Dr. Edward M.
>Eitzen, Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
>Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland (Biological weapons); Dr. John
>Donelson, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of
>Iowa (The genome of African trypanosomes); Dr. Daniel Goldberg, Howard
>Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Microbiology,
>Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, (Genome-wide
>analysis of malaria parasites); and Dr. Barry N. Kreiswirth, Director,
>Public Health Research Institute Tuberculosis Center, New York, N.Y.
>(Global dissemination of the multidrug resistant Myccobacterium
>tuberculosis). Those interested in presenting a poster must submit an
>Abstract Form available at our web site:http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/idc/.
>The submission deadline to abstracts is April 5, 2002.
>--
>Roberto Docampo M.D. Ph.D.
>Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology
>Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>2001 South Lincoln Avenue
>Urbana, IL 61802, USA
>Tel: 217-333-3845
>Fax: 217-244-7421
>http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/vp/molparasite/
>http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/faculty/docampo.html
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