Dear people at Midgard project, I am forwarding you the message requesting support recently sent to LINUX. We are organizing a web conference on trypanosomatids (pathogenics protozoa for humans, animals and plants). As a initial step, we proposed to use the CEILIDH software (http://www.lilikoi.com/index_main.html) previoulsy used in other scientific meeting: http://www.mcmaster.ca/inabis98/toc0.html But it appears to cause some installation problems in our server, also it is not very user-friend. I am emailing you to kindly ask for some suggestions about LINUX software (Midgard ?) to be used in our web conference (http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/trypnews/events/ticstt.html). The support from LINUX community would be greatly appreciated and them would be of course listed in our official site as main sponsors. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Alberto ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:32:22 -0300 From: Alberto M. R. Davila - DBBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Internet Conference - Linux Support (fwd) Dear people at Linux, In the recent past, we sent you an email requesting some support for our Internet Conference. We are sending again the message in the case it did not reach you. Kevin Tyler and I are organizing the Third Internet Conference on Salivarian Trypanosomes and Trypanosomatids (from the 2nd to the 18th of October 2000). The scope of this conference has been extended this year to include all pathogenic kinetoplastids affecting animals and humans. Since LINUX is one of the big companies on the computing and IT world and we are using information technologies for this event, we decided to approach you asking for some support for our worldwide conference on Internet. It will be organized with a low budget when compared with the traditional scientific meetings, however, it will have a wider audience since virtually every researchers with Internet conection in the world will be able to participate. Further, we have already secured the participation of the world's foremost trypanosomiasis researchers, ensuring that the conference will attract a great deal of interest and a strong attendence. The internet format will afford you the opportunity to link directly from the conference to your own internet site and we can increase your visibility by allowing you to sponsor individual talks or sessions and maintain you as our main sponsor. The official site of the event is: http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/trypnews/events/ticstt.html Mirror: http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~kmt564/TICSTT.html Recently we got an agreement with Elsevier (www.elsevier.nl) to publish the Proceedings, then guaranteed visibility through all major indexing and abstracting services as well as online full text databases, see the announcement at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/parasitology Several announcements are also appearing in international scientific newsletters as: "American Society of Parasitologists Newsletter (2000) -March Vol. 22 no 1, 4-5". Moreover, we are also discussing with the Joint IAEA/FAO division possibilities of support for our web initiatives. Other sponsors for our initiative are FORT DOGDE ANIMAL HEALTH (FDAH) and NOVARTIS. Basically, we would be VERY interested to use a LINUX software for our Internet Conference. We dont know if such software already exist, if not, LINUX could be our MAIN sponsor helping us with it. Looking forward to hearing from you. Alberto M. R. Davila Phone: 55-21-290-7549 Ext. 143/149 DBBM/Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ Fax: 55-21-5903495 Av. Brasil 4365 Manguinhos (lab) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 21045-900 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Third Internet Conference on Salivarian Tryps and Trypanosomatids: http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/trypnews/events/ticstt.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Salivaria homepage: http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/~davila/salivaria.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- TRYPLINK-L Discussion List: http://www.cenargen.embrapa.br/~davila/tryplink.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Programme: Opening conferences (Millenium overviews) John R. Seed. African Trypanosomiasis Research: 100 years of progress, but questions and problems still remain. George Cross. (confirmed) 1) Biology and Ultrastructure Keith Gull (confirmed) Michel Dollet Phloem restricted trypanosomatids form a clearly characterized monophyletic group among trypanosomatids isolated from plants. Paul Englund (confirmed) Peter Overath The surface structure of trypanosomes in relation to their molecular phylogeny 2) Biochemistry and Drug development Fred Opperdoes Glycolytic enzymes as drug targets. Stefan Kunz, KeWei Gong, Roya Zoraghi, Rahel Schaub and Thomas Seebeck. cAMP signaling in T. brucei:Cyclases and phosphodiesterases. Herb Tanowitz The role of the mitogen-activated protein kinase-endothelin-1 pathway in the pathogenesis of Chagasic Heart Disease. CC Wang 3) Molecular Biology Piet Borst Control of trypanosome expression sites for Variant Surface Glycoproteins. Luc Vanhamme and Etienne Pays Function and regulation of the VSG expression sites of T. brucei. Wim Degrave et al. The trypanosomatid genome projects - A current state of play. Yara Traub-Cseko. Cellular trafficking in trypanosomatids: a new target for therapies? 4) Immunology and Pathology Samuel J. Black, Noel B. Murphy, Derek P. Nolan. Innate and acquired resistance to trypanosomiasis in Cape buffalo. Patrick T. K. Woo Cryptobiosis in North American Fishes. Dave Engman Autoimmune pathogenesis of Chagasic Heart Disease. Edith Authie Immunological strategies for control of livestock trypanosomosis . Rick Tarleton Parasite persistence in the etiology of Chagas disease 5) Epidemiology Michel Tibayrenc. The European Centre for Infectious Diseases, a sorely needed structure for an efficient control of infectious and parasitic diseases in Northern and southern coutries. Peter Van den Bossche The epidemiology and control of bovine trypanosomosis in southern Africa. John McDermott and Paul Coleman(confirmed) Geoff Hide (confirmed) 6) Vectors Charles Beard, EM Dotson, PM Pennington, S Eichler, C Cordon-Rosales, and RV Durvasula. Bacterial Symbiosis and Paratransgenic Control of Vector-borne Chagas Disease. Francis Oloo The status of research on and control of tsetse flies and other trypanosomiasis vectors in Eastern Africa: the challenges for this century. Ian Maudlin Vector control - 100 years of fortitude ? Colin Dale and Sue Welburn The endosymbionts of tsetse flies Priscilla Emmanuele Machado, Iriane Eger-Mangrich, Gisele Rosa, Leonardo Barbosa Koerich, Edmundo Carlos Grisard, Mrio Steindel Differential susceptibility of triatomines of the genus Rhodnius toTrypanosoma rangeli strains from different geographical origins. Alexandre Peixoto Special debate on Phylogeny and Evolution Hooman Momen Some current problems in the systematics of Trypanosomatids Wendy Gibson Conclusions and Recommendations Alberto M. R. Davila and Kevin M. Tyler -- This is The Midgard Project's mailing list. 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