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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:08:29 -0800
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Subject: Symbiosis Congress - biomimetics
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Dear biomimetics Moderator
We would appreciate it if you could post the conference
announcement below on your discussion list if you consider
it appropriate.
Kind regards
Helen Terre Blanche (Conference Alerts)
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Fourth International Symbiosis Society Congress
17 to 23 August 2003, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
There will be discipline sessions and theme sessions.
There is a day of field trips mid week, followed by further
sessions. The congress format will include lectures,
posters, workshops and time for discussion.
Keynote Speakers:
Ove Hoegh-Goldberg (Australia) Bleaching of corals: a
global threat
Birgitta Bergman (Sweden) Cyanobacterial symbioses
Mark Seaward (United Kingdom) Lichens
Chales Fisher (USA) Deep-sea Chemoautotroph
symbioses
Charles Delwiche (USA) Horizontal gene exchange
Kristin Palmqvist (Sweden) Non-nitrogen nutrient
movement.
Margaret McFall-Ngai (USA) Marine symbioses
David Read (United Kingdom) Mycorrhizae
Hans C. Webber (Germany) Parasitic flowering plant
workshop
Douglas Zook (USA) Teaching symbiosis workshop
Angela Douglas (United Kingdom) Insect symbioses
Frans J. deBruijn (France) Rhizobium and Frankia
Volker Huss (Germany) Protistan symbioses
Chris Schardl (USA) Endophytic fungi and grasses
Anne Hirsch (USA) Recognition and specificity
Joseph Shorthouse (Canada) Galls and termites
Jan Sapp (Canada) Congress Banquet Speaker
Lynn Margulis (SA) Evolutionary implications
Abstracts should be submitted no later than 30th of April.
Those who wish to present orally in one of the sessions
should submit an abstract as soon as possible. This can
be done on line via the web site:
http://people.bu.edu/dzook/
There are unlimited opportunities for presentations in the
form of posters. The congress organizers will select the
abstracts for oral presentation with the help and advice of
keynote speakers. Our aim is to put together a balanced,
exciting, high quality programme.
Note that Air Canada has announced a seat sale valid
until 27th of March.
E-mail enquiries: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://people.bu.edu/dzook/
Submission deadline: 30 April 2003
Organized by: The International Symbiosis Society
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