Calendar of Upcoming Events

Published in Probe Volume 6 (Final): July 1996


MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS

October 6-10, 1996: American Society for Horticultural Science Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY. VOICE: (703) 836-4606.

October 17-20, 1996: Fourth McGill University Conference on Regulation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication, St. Sauveur, Quebec, CN. Contact: WWW: http://www.mcgill.ca/mcgill/servers/Admin/UBO/dna.html

October 20-24, 1996: Genetics and Molecular Biology of Industrial Microorganisms, Bloomington, IN. Contact: SIM, 3929 Old Lee Hwy., Suite 92A, Fairfax, VA 22030-2421. VOICE: (703) 691-3357, FAX: (703) 691-7991.

October 20-25, 1996: Recovery of Biological Products VIII, Tucson, AZ. Contact: American Chemical Society, Meetings Dept., 1155 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 22036. VOICE: (202) 872-6286, FAX: (202) 872-6128, E-MAIL: a_aguzin@acs.org

November 3-8, 1996: Annual Meeting American Society of Agronomy, Indianapolis, IN. Contact: American Society of Agronomy, 677 South Segoe Rd, Madison, WI 53711. VOICE: (608) 273-8080, FAX: (608) 273-2021.

November 21-22, 1996: European Biotechnology Symposium, Congress Centrum, Cologne, Germany. Contact: BioConferences International, 4405 East-West Highway, #501, Bethesda, MD 20814. FAX: (301) 652-3072.

December 7-11, 1996: 6th International Congress on Cell Biology and the 36th American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Contact: American Society for Cell Biology, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3992. VOICE: (301) 530-7153, FAX: (301) 530-7139, E-MAIL: congress@ascb.faseb.org

January 12-16, 1997: Plant and Animal Genome V, Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, CA. Contact: Scherago International, Inc., 11 Penn Plaza, Suite 1003, New York, NY 10001. VOICE: (212) 643-1750, FAX: (212) 643-1758, E-MAIL: pag5@scherago.com

January 16-18, 1997: Annual Symposium in Plant Physiology: A Look Beyond Transcription: Mechanisms Determining RNA Stability and Translation in Plants, University of California, Riverside, CA. Contact: Cindi McKernan, Botany and Plant Sciences Dept., Univeristy of California, Riverside, CA 92521. VOICE: (909) 787-3423, FAX: (909) 787-4437, E-MAIL: cindi.mckernan@mail.ucr.edu

January 20-26, 1997: Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Evoution of Plant Development, Taos, NM. Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne, CO 80498. VOICE: (800) 253-0685, FAX: (970) 262-1525; E-MAIL keystone@symposia.com, WWW: http://www.colorado.net/symposia

February 1-6, 1997: Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: RNA-Protein Interactions, Taos, NM. Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne, CO 80498. VOICE: (800) 253-0685, FAX: (970) 262-1525; E-MAIL: keystone@symposia.com, WWW: http://www.colorado.net/symposia

February 6-11, 1997: Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Frontiers of NMR in Molecular Biology, Taos, NM. Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne, CO 80498. VOICE: (800) 253-0685, FAX: (970) 262-1525; E-MAIL: keystone@symposia.com, WWW: http://www.colorado.net/symposia

February 16-21, 1997: Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Molecular Mechanisms of Evolution: Structure, Function, Expression and Regulation of Genes and Proteins, Santa Fe, NM. Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne, CO 80498. VOICE: (800) 253-0685, FAX: (970) 262-1525; E-MAIL: keystone@symposia.com, WWW: http://www.colorado.net/symposia

March 1-7, 1997: Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Transposition and Site-Specific, Recombination, Santa Fe, NM. Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne, CO 80498. VOICE: (800) 253-0685, FAX: (970) 262-1525; E-MAIL: keystone@symposia.com, WWW: http://www.colorado.net/symposia

March 3-9, 1997: Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Protein Folding, Modification and Transport in the Early Secretory Pathway, Taos, NM. Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne, CO 80498. VOICE: (800) 253-0685, FAX: (970) 262-1525, E-MAIL: keystone@symposia.com, WWWhttp://www.colorado.net/symposia

April 6-11, 1997: Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Metabolic Engineering in Transgenic Plants, Copper Mountain, CO. Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne, CO 80498. VOICE: (800) 253-0685, FAX: (970) 262-1525; E-MAIL: keystone@symposia.com, WWW: http://www.colorado.net/symposia

April 14-19, 1997: 9th International Congress on Isozymes, Genes, and Gene Families, San Antonio, TX. Contact: Daphne Wright, Congress Liaison, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, P.O. Box 28147, San Antonio, TX 78228-0147. FAX: (210) 670-3337, E-MAIL: isozyme@darwin.sfbr.org

May 29-June 1, 1997: International Symposium in Root Biology--Radicle Molecules: The Biology of Underground Plant Metabolism, University Park, PA. Contact: Dr. Hector E. Flores, Pennsylvania State University, 315 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802. VOICE: (814) 865-2955, FAX: (814) 863-7217, E-MAIL hector_flores@agcs.psu.edu

June 8-12, 1997: BIO 97: International Biotechnology Meeting and Exhibition, Houston, TX. Contact: BIO International Meetings Dept., Biotechnology Industry Organization, 1625 K St., NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006-1604. VOICE: (202) 857-0244, FAX: (202) 331-8132 or (202) 857-0237.

June 8-19, 1997: XVIII International Grassland Congress, Winnipeg, CN. Contact: XVIII International Grassland Congress, P.O. Box 4520, Station C, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2T 5N3. VOICE: (403) 244-4487, FAX: (403) 244-2340, E-MAIL: amc@supernet.ab.ca, WWW: http://www.forage.com

June 26-30, 1997: Eighth International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI. Contact: Rick Amasino. E-MAIL: amasino@biochem.wisc.edu

August 2-6, 1997: Annual Meeting American Society of Plant Physiologists, Vancouver, British Columbia, CN. Contact: Program Committee, c/o ASPP Headquarters, 15501 Monona Dr., Rockville, MD 20855-2768. VOICE: (301) 251-0560, FAX: (301) 279-299, E-MAIL: chambers@aspp.org

August 13-15, 1997: Symposium on Seed Biology and Technology: Applications and Advances, National Seed Storage Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO. Contact: Eric E. Roos, USDA National Seed Storage Laboratory, 1111 South Mason St., Fort Collins, CO 80521-4500, VOICE: (970) 495-3205, FAX: (970) 221-1427, E-MAIL: eroos@lamar.colostate.edu, WWW: http://www.ars-grin.gov/ars/NoPlains/FtCollins/SEEDBIO/

August 24-29, 1997: 17th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (in conjunction with) 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,San Francisco, CA. Contact: Congress Secretariat, 17th International Congress for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3996. FAX: (301) 571-1824, E-MAIL: 171UBMB@asbmb.faseb.org

September 21-27, 1997: 5th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, Singpore. Contact: Congress Secretary, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7229.FAX: (706) 542-2090

October 23-30, 1997: Annual Meeting American Society of Agronomy, Anaheim, CA. Contact: American Society of Agronomy, 677 South Segoe Rd, Madison, WI 53711. VOICE: (608) 273-8080, FAX: (608) 273-2021.

July 1998: 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology, Darwin, Australia. Contact: Dr. Phil Larkin, CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, P.O. Box 1600 Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia. VOICE: +61 6 2465060, FAX: +61 6 2465000, E-MAIL: p.larkin@pi.csiro.au

October 18-22, 1998: Annual Meeting American Society of Agronomy, Baltimore, MD. Contact: American Society of Agronomy, 677 South Segoe Rd, Madison, WI 53711. VOICE: (608) 273-8080, FAX: (608) 273-2021.

October 30-November 4, 1999: Annual Meeting American Society of Agronomy, Salt Lake City, UT. Contact: American Society of Agronomy, 677 South Segoe Rd, Madison, WI 53711. VOICE: (608) 273-8080, FAX: (608) 273-2021.

ON-LINE SYMPOSIUMS

APSKarnal Bunt On-Line Symposium: Sponsored by The American Phytopathological Society. URL: http://www.scisoc.org/karnal.htm

TRAINING/COURSES

September 30-October 4, 1996: RNA Isolation and Gene Expression, Columbia, MD. Contact: Workshop Coordinator, Exon-Intron, Inc., 9151 Rumsey Rd., Suite 130, Columbia, MD 21045. VOICE: (800) 407-6546, FAX: (410) 730-3983.

October 10-23, 1996: YACs in Structural and Biological Genome Analysis, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Contact: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. VOICE: (516) 367-8346, FAX: (516) 367-8845, E-MAIL: meetings@cshl.org, WWW: http://www.cshl.org

December 3-4, 1996: Molecular Biology E-mail Servers Training Program, Beltsville, MD. Contact: Evelyn Jones, USDA, ARS, National Agricultural Library, Plant Genome Data and Information Center, 10301 Baltimore Ave., 4th Flr., Beltsville, MD 20705-2351. VOICE: (301) 504-6613, FAX: (301) 504-7098, E-MAIL: pgenome@nal.usda.gov

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships in Root Biology. Contact: Dr. Hector E. Flores, Pennsylvania State University, 315 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802. VOICE: (814) 865-2955, FAX: (814) 863-7217, E-MAIL: hector_flores@agcs.psu.edu

NSF-Sponsored Graduate Research Traineeships in Plant Biology. Contact: Dr. Elizabeth Bray, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521. VOICE: (909) 787-4548, FAX: (909) 787-4437, E-MAIL: bray@mail.ucr.edu