From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Wed Apr 17 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!world!mv!news.missouri.edu!news From: WCWM Meeting Organizers Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: (no subject) Date: 17 Apr 1996 21:37:11 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia Lines: 75 Message-ID: <4l3oa7$rdo@news.missouri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: wormwood.biosci.missouri.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news://news/bionet.celegans Dear Colleague, We are now accepting registration forms and abstracts for the 1996 West Coast Worm Meeting (July 25-28 in Vancouver, BC)! Please read the following information carefully. We encourage you to register early, and send your abstracts in as soon as possible. Please print out and post this message for the benefit of others in your department who may not be on our electronic mailing list, and visit our web site to get started (http://genekit.medgen.ubc.ca/wcwm.html). All the information you need can be found there. Registration and Accommodation The deadline for early registration is May 31, 1996, with registration fees of $150 Cdn before that date and $175 Cdn after. The fee includes all workshops and abstract books, 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, all coffee breaks, the opening reception and the salmon barbeque. Accommodation fees begin at $33 Cdn per night, for a single room with shared washroom. On-line and fax registration require payment by credit card. Credit cards or checks are accepted for registration by mail. Checks must be issued in Canadian dollars, and drawn on a Canadian bank (go to your bank and ask them to issue a check in Canadian funds, which they can do via their association with a Canadian bank). Institutional checks are accepted provided simply that they are in Canadian dollars. There is no provision for institutional purchase orders. You may register for the meeting on-line through a web browser (such as Netscape or Mosaic), by mail or by fax. Electronic registration is best accomplished by visiting either the West Coast Worm Meeting web site (http://genekit.medgen.ubc.ca/wcwm.html) or Leon Avery's Worm Meetings site (http://eatworms.swmed.edu/Worm_meetings.html). You'll find a lot of information and links to the UBC Conference Services meeting registration site. Registering by mail or fax requires a copy of the registration form. We have posted binhex 4.0-encoded and native format copies of the form on an anonymous ftp site (ftp.zoology.ubc.ca in the directory pub/moerman), in both MS Word for Mac 5.1 format and Word for Windows 2 format. If you get the binhexed version, you'll have to run it through a binhex decoder (widely available on Macs, and a PC version is available free by anonymous ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu in the directory pub/binhex). You can also get the binhexed files simply by clicking on the appropriate file while visiting the Meeting web site with your browser. Your web browser may automatically decode the files, but then it may not. You'll have to see. Abstract Submission The deadline for abstract submission if May 31, 1996. Abstracts must be submitted in hard-copy form so we can put together an abstract book. Formatting and mailing instructions are simple, and are posted on the Meeting web site and our ftp site (the file is called "wcwmabs.txt"). If you can't get to them by either of those methods, send email to Mark Edgley at aardvark@dauerdigs.biosci.missouri.edu and we'll send you an email copy. Abstracts should also be submitted electronically through Leon Avery's slick web system. We will make all the electronically-received abstracts available by ftp before the meeting. You can connect to the abstract submission engine through the West Coast Worm Meeting site or Leon's Worm Meeting site (addresses above). Remember: please register and send in your abstracts EARLY. We look forward to seeing you in sunny Vancouver! Meeting Organizers: Mark Edgley aardvark@dauerdigs.biosci.missouri.edu Don Moerman moerman@zoology.ubc.ca Ann Rose arose@genekit.medgen.ubc.ca Colin Thacker thacker@genekit.medgen.ubc.ca .