HUM-MOLGEN archive: ANNO: New Meetings, Workshops & Positions (fwd)

************************************************************** HUM-MOLGEN Meetings, Workshops & Positions ************************************************************** This mail summarizes new announcements of meetings, workshops and positions at our WWW. If you are interested in a specific announcement, please take a look at http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/meetings/ http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/positions/ This document is also available in hypertext at http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/documents/texts/0008.h ml Thanks for your interest. Frank S. Zollmann (frank.zollmann@medizin.uni-rostock.de) ************************************************************** - New Meetings and Conferences by subject - Announcement of Molecular Medicine Society Meeting (full text) - New Courses and Workshops by subject - New Positions for Postdocs or Research Associates by subject - New Non-Academic Positions (Genetics) - New Positions Wanted (Genetics) - How to post announcements (free)? ************************************************************** Meetings and Conferences by subject ----------------------------------- Cancer Research o 11/4/96-11/7/96 First Announcement Molecular Mechanisms of Oncogenesis Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide Australia o 31/03/1996 to 3/04/1996 37th Annual Meeting Annual Cancer Research Meeting BACR/EACR/ACP, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Cell and Molecular Biology o May 3 - 6, 1996 First Annual Meeting of the Molecular Medicine Society Biomedicine '96 The Molecular Medicine Society, Washington, DC, USA Computational Genetics / Bioinformatics o June 10-11, 1996 Fifth International Conference on BIOINFORMATICS & GENOME RESEARCH Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Baltimore, MD USA Genetics o August 28 - September 1, 1996 Ninth Annual Mouse Meeting MOUSE MOLECULAR GENETICS Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York o August 14 - 18, 1996 First Announcement CANCER GENETICS & TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York o 26-29 June 1996 First International Conference on Haploinsufficiency Diseases Fondation Merieux, Lac D'Annecy, France o June 6-7, 1996 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES: Critical Challenges for BIOMEDICINE & GENOMICS Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Philadelphia, PA USA o March 14-16th 1996 First Announcement; 4th Umeå Annual Meeting in Psychiatric Genetics 4th Umeå Annual Meeting in Psychiatric Genetics Department of Psychiatry Umeå University Umeå Sweden, Umeå Sweden Microbiology / Virology o June 24-25, 1996 BLOOD SAFETY AND SCREENING EUROPE Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands o May 15-16, 1996 NOVEL HIV THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Washington, DC USA Neurology / Neuroscience o February 17-20, 1996 National Academy of Sciences Colloquium Memory: Recording Experience in Cells and Circuits National Academy of Sciences, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California Others o 2/3/96 Third Annual Conference After Breast Cancer: Communication, Sexuality and Intimacy Northern California Cancer Center, San Francisco, California o February 14-17 Conference on Integrative East-West Medicine UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles o March 24-27, 1996 Electrophoresis '96, USA Electrophoresis Society, USA, Emory Conference Center Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia ************************************************************** First Annual Meeting of the Molecular Medicine Society May 3 - 6, 1996 Washington, D.C., U.S.A. The first annual meeting of the Molecular Medicine Society will be held on May 3, 1996 in Washington, DC, USA. The MMS will participate in "Biomedicine '96" with the three major clinical research societies of the United States - the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians. In addition, Science magazine will be co-hosting all four meetings. While the MMS meeting will be held on the first day, it will be a part of the complete conference which will run through May 6th. The Society will be able to participate in the low registration fee, discounted hotel prices, special events, and major exhibits. MMS will provide full plenary sessions inclusive of all of molecular medicine, and all abstracts will be included in the poster session. Each plenary session will also feature an address by a major scientist. The schedule is as follows: 1:00 - 2:30 pm - Sponsored lunch for the first 100 members and fellows to sign up. Featured will be the presentation of the Maclyn McCarty Award for the best paper by a young investigator in volume 1 of Molecular Medicine, and an address by Floyd E. Bloom, MD, of the Scripps Research Institute, Editor of Science and Councillor of MMS. 2:30 - 3:30 pm - Presentation (15 minutes) by Sir David Weatherall, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford and Vice President of MMS for Europe, and three 12 minute papers with 3 minute discussions.=20 3:30 - 4:00 pm - Break with refreshments. 4:00 - 5:00 pm - Presentation by Richard A. Young, PhD, of the Whitehead Institute and Charter Fellow of MMS, followed by three papers, as above. 5:00 - 6:00 pm - Address (10 minutes) by President David G. Nathan, Physician-in-Chief of Harvard's Children's Hospital, followed by the annual business meeting. 7:00 - 9:00 pm - Poster session of all MMS abstracts, and those of the three clinical research societies. Abstract forms (deadline is January 12) and registration materials are available from: The Molecular Medicine Society, c/o The Picower Institute for Medical Research, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030. Tel: 516-562-9414; Fax: 516-869-8428; E-mail: lbonetta@picower.edu. Laura Bonetta, Ph.D. Managing Editor, Molecular Medicine Picower Institute Press 350 Community Drive Manhasset, NY 11030 Fax: 516 869 8428 ************************************************************** Courses and Workshops by subject -------------------------------- Genetics o April 14th-April 17th, 1996 COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT GENETIC ANALYSIS METHODS Duke University Medical Center, Center for Executive Education / Babson College just outside of Boston, MA, U.S.A o March 24-31, 1996 European School of Medical Genetics: 9th Course International School of Pediatric Sciences - Istituto G. Gaslini, Grand Hotel dei Castelli - Sestri Levante (Genoa - Italy) Others o 1/29/96 31st Annual Pediatric Postgraduate Course Miami Children's Hospital, Miami Beach, Florida ************************************************************** Postdocs or Research Associates by subject ------------------------------------------ Biochemistry / Immunology o Research Associate SEQ Ltd., Princeton, NJ. 08540-6449 Biotechnology o Technical Support Specialist for Multimedia Lab and Telemedicine Program New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, New York, NY 10003 Cell and Molecular Biology o Post-doctoral fellow (permanent resident/citizen) Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110 Molecular Diagnostics o VISITING POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Others o Research Optometrist in Singapore Singapore Eye Research Institute, New York, NY 10021, USA ************************************************************** Non-Academic Positions by subject --------------------------------- Genetics o Scientist/Human Molecular Genetics Vysis, Inc., Downers Grove, IL 60515 USA ************************************************************** Wanted by subject ----------------- Genetics o Wanted: Research or Research Asst.Position in Molecular Biology/Genetics ICRF, South Mimms, Herts. EN6 3LD UK o POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW Institut de genetique et Microbiologie, 91405 Orsay cedex, FRANCE. ************************************************************** How to post announcements ? ------------------------------ <http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/hum/submit.html> You can submit (f r e e) information by type and subject (e.g. Genetics, Gene Therapy) at http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/cgi-bin/meetings.pl?write1 http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/cgi-bin/positions.pl?write0 **************************************************************