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Reply-To: Roberto Docampo <rodoc at uiuc.edu>

Seventh Annual Conference on New and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases

Center for Zoonoses Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
April 15-16, 2004

The Seventh Annual Conference on New and 
Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases will be held 
April 15-16, 2004. On April 15, the Conference 
will be held at 5:00 p.m. at the Illini Union of 
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Virginia L 
Miller, Department of Molecular Microbiology, 
Washington University School of Medicine, St. 
Louis, MO (Invasin, RovA and the Peyer's Patch in 
Yersinia enterocolitica infection). On April 16, 
morning and afternoon sessions will be held at 
the Holiday Inn Hotel in Urbana from 8:15 a.m. to 
6:00 p.m. Invited speakers and topics include: 
Dr. André A. Dhondt, Department of Ecology and 
Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, NY 
(Mycoplasma gallisepticum in house finches: the 
dynamics of an emerging pathogen in an introduced 
host); Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt Didier, Division of 
Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane National 
Primate Research Center, Covington, LA 
(Microsporidiosis: an emerging and opportunistic 
infection in humans and animals); Dr. James D. 
Bangs, Department of Medical Microbiology and 
Immunology, University of Wisconsin Medical 
School, Madison, WI (Differentiation and surface 
coat exchange In African trypanosomes); Dr. 
Joseph Heitman, Departments of Molecular Genetics 
and Microbiology, Pharmacology and Cancer 
Biology, and Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical 
Institute, Duke University Medical Center, 
Durham, NC (Sex and the evolution of virulence in 
Cryptococcus neoformans); Dr. Samuel Stanley, 
Departments of Medicine and Molecular 
Microbiology, Washington University School of 
Medicine, St. Louis, MO (New insights into 
enteric infections from mouse-human chimeras); 
Dr. Olaf Schneewind, Committee on Microbiology, 
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Strategies to 
combat Staphylococcus aureus infection); Dr. 
Jamie H. Maguire, Division of Parasitic Diseases, 
NIAID/NIH, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, and 
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Center 
for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 
(SARS--the story of what happened in China). 
Those interested in presenting a poster must 
submit an Abstract Form available at our web 
site: http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/idc/. Submission 
deadline to abstracts is April 7, 2004.


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Roberto Docampo M.D. Ph.D.
Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology
Department of Pathobiology and
Center for Zoonoses Research,
College of Veterinary Medicine,
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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