From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Fri May 28 18:37:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: David Bird Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: Parasitic nematode workshop Date: 28 May 1999 12:37:12 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 42 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: wmorgan@acs.wooster.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <7imr98$937@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net A workshop on parasitic nematodes will be held at the C. elegans meeting at 2-4 pm on Friday, June 4. As well as an opportunity for discussion, the following short talks (12 min + 3 min questions) are scheduled: Prema Arasu: "TGF-beta in pregnancy-induced reactivation of arrested hookworm larvae." Charlie Opperman: "Genetic analysis of parasitism in sedentary phytophagous nematodes" David Bird: "Regulatory networks in plant nematode feeding cell formation." Andras Fodor: "Genetic analysis of entomopathogenic nematode/bacerium symbiosis." Horolma Pamjav: "Entomopathogenic nematode/bacterium symbiotic complexes: Phylogenetics and coevolution." Antonia Volgyi: "Desiccation tolerant transgenic entomopathogenic nematodes." Sarwar Hashmi: "Role of cysteine protease(s) in C. elegans embryogenesis/development." Kirsten Crossgrove: TBA Please contact me for more information. See you in Madison dave David McK. Bird Associate Professor Plant Nematode Genetics Group Department of Plant Pathology North Carolina State University 3415 Gardner Hall Raleigh, NC 27695-7616 Office: (919) 515-6813 Lab: (919) 515-2753 Fax: (919) 515-9500 http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/project/plantpath/Personnel/Faculty/bird.html .