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1991

December 1-5. The Changing Role of Mycoplasmas in Respiratory Disease and as Opportunist in AIDS Patients. Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Contact: Gail H. Cassell, Dept. of Microbiology, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, tel. (205) 9349339; fax (205) 9349256.

December 2-5. Conjoint Meeting on Infectious Diseases (59th Annual). Quebec, Canada. Sponsor: Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Contact: Dr. Pierre Payment, Institut Armand- Frappier, P.O. Box 100, Station LDR, Laval, Quebec, Canada H7N 4Z3, tel. (514) 6875010; fax (514) 6865501.

December 2-6. International Conference on Virology in the Tropics. Lucknow, India. Contact: Prof. Narayan Rishi, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Narayana Agricultural University, Hisar 125 005, India, tel. 01662-2445, 3721 to 29, ext. 4203.

December 4-7. National Congress of Microbiology (3rd). Guatemala City, Guatemala. Contact: Olga Isabel Valdez, Secretary, at Ave. La Reforma 0-63, zone 10, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

December 5-6. l l th Interdisciplinary Meeting on Anti- Infectious Chemotherapy. Contact: Pr. R. Cluzel, Facult6 de M6decine, 28 place Henri Dunant, 63001 Clermont- Ferrand, France, tel. 73608018; fax 73277494.

December 8-11. International Symposium on Xylans and Xylanases, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Contact: Dr. M.A. Kusters-van Someren, Dept. of Genetics, Section Molecular Genetics, Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 2, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands, tel. 31-8370- 83143; fax 31-8370-83416.

December 9-10. Clinical Care of the AIDS Patient. San Francisco Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, Calif. Sponsor: Extended Programs in Medical Education, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Contact: Postgraduate Programs, 521 Parnassus Ave., C-405, San Francisco, CA 94143-0656; (415) 5208.

December 10-11. Symposium on Upstream and Downstream in Biotechnology. Antwerp, Belgium. Contact: Rita Peys, Royal Flemish Society of Engineers (K.VIV), Desguinlei 215, B-2018 Antwerp.

Digestive Tract in Intensive Care Patients. Paris, France. Contact: J. Carlet, Service de R6animation Polyvalente, Hopital Saint-Joseph, 7 Rue Pierre Larousse, 75014 Paris, France

December 16-18. Antibody Engineering - New Technology & Application Results. San Diego, Calif. Contact: Gail Scho, IBC USA Conferences, 8D Pleasant St., South Natick, MA 01760, tel. (508) 6504700; fax (508) 6531627.

1992

January-April. Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology. Keystone Colo. Contact: Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthorne, CO 80498, tel. (303) 2621230; fax (303) 2621525.

January 7-10. World Conference on Poliomyelitis and Measles: Vaccines and Immunization. New Delhi, India. Contact: Prof. R.G. Marusky, Secretary-General, ICVO, Provincial Laboratory of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2J2, tel. (403) 4928903; fax (403) 4928984.

January 22-25. 1st International Conference on the Macrolides, Azalides and Streptogramm. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contact: ICMAS Secretariat, Wallace Comm. Inc., 1000 Herron Town Road, Princeton, N.J. 08540-7702.

February 2-8. 5th International Symposium on Currrent Topics in Infectious Diseases. Grindelwald, Switzerland. Contact: Yfke Joseph, Dept. of Clin. Microbiology, Rm. G04.515, University Hospital, P.O. Box 85900, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands, tel. (030) 507625; fax (030) 541770.

February 13-16. Singapore-San Francisco Advanced Course in Infectious Diseases. Republic of Singapore. Contact: Communication Consultant, 336 Smith St. #06-302, New Bridge Centre, Singapore 0105, tel. (65) 2279811; fax (65) 2270257.

March 8-11. 4th European Congress & 2nd International Symposium on Anaerobic Bacteria and Infections. Vienna, Austria. Contact: Vienna Med Congress, Hofburg, Heldenplatz, A-1014 Vienna, Austria

March 8-13. Conference on Antiviral Research (5th International). Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Contact: Earl R. Kern, Secretary, ISAR, The University of Alabama at

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S., Birmingham, AL 35294, tel. (205) 9341990; fax (205) 9751992.

March 30 - April 1. Future Trends in Chemotherapy - Interdisciplinary World Congress on Antimicrobial and Anticancer Drugs (10th). Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland. Contact: Organizing Secretariat, P.O. Box 112, Grand Saconnex (GE), Switzerland, tel. (022) 300 3387; fax (022) 300 2391.

April 2-5. Symposium on Flavobacterium-Cytophaga and Related Bacteria (2nd International). Bloemfontein, South Africa. Contact: P.J. Jooste, Dept. of Food Science, University of the Orange Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, Republic of South Africa, fax (051) 4012117.

April 5-9. International Congress on the Management of Infection. Rai Centre, Amsterdam. Contact: Ms. Andrea Francis, Gardiner-Caldwell Communications, The Old Ribbon Mill, Pitt St., Macclesfield, Cheshire SKll 7PT, England, tel. 0825.618507; fax 0625 610260.

April 13-15. Vaccines for Enteric Diseases. University of Cambridge, U.K. Contact: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, United Kingdom, tel. 0865 310366; fax 0865 310898

April 21-23. Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Symposium on Black Pigmented Gram- Negative Anaerobes. Antalya, Turkey. Contact: Guven Kulekel, Secretary General, Dept. of Microbiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, 34390 Capa, Istanbul, Turkey, tel. (901) 525 1134/225; fax 130-4409.

April 25-29. Educational Strategies Workshop, Association of Medical School Microbiology & Immunology Chairs. Myrtle Beach, S.C. Contact: R.S. Fulghum, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4354, tel. (919) 5512700; fax (919) 5513104.

May 4-5. Conference on the Prevention of Infection (2nd International). Nice, France. Contact: Expand Connexion, 53 rue de Paris, 92100 Boulogne, France, tel. 33.1 48246464; fax 33.1 46056603.

May 7-9. Immunology of Human Papillomavirus Infections (International Workshop). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact: Secretariat Bureau PAOG-Workshop on Immunology of Human Papillomavirus Infections, Tafelbergweg 25, 1105 BC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel. (31) 20 5664801; fax (31) 20 6963228.

Listeriosis (llth). Copenhagen, Denmark. Sponsors: Statens Seruminstitut/Royal Vet. and Agric. Univ./Danish Microbiol. Society. Contact: Wilhelm Frederiksen, M.D., Dept. of Diagnostic Baxteriology, Statens Seruminstitut, Artillerivej 5, DK-2300 Copenhagen, S.Denmark.

May 12-14. Bio-Chromatography and Molecular Biology. La Grande Motte, France. Contact: GBFC, Unit6 d'Immuno-Allergie, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France

May 24-29.8th Mediterranean Congress of Chemotherapy. Athens, Greece. Contact: Congress Secretariat, P.O. Box 305 73, 60 Mitropoleos St., 105 63 Athens, Greece

May 26-30. 92nd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans, LA, tel. (202) 7370377.

June 7-9. UA-UC Conference on Infectious Diseases (5th). Kananaskis Village, Alberta, Canada. Contact: Dr. Glen Armstrong, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The University of Alberta, 1-41 Medical Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7, tel. (403) 4922303; fax (403) 4927521.

June 7-11. International Congress for Infectious Disease. Nairobi, Kenya. Contact: Norman Stein, International Society for Infectious Diseases, 180 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, tel. (617) 4322270; fax (617) 7311541.

June 10-12. Congress of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine (5th International). Bordeaux, France. Contact: Prof. F. Megraud, Hopital des Enfants, 168 course de l'Argonne, 33077 Bordeaux, France; fax 33.56 915988

June 14-18. Canadian Society of Microbiologists (42nd Annual Meeting). St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Contact: Dr. John Gow, Biology Dept., Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X9, Canada.

June 14-19. 1st European Congress of Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Taormina, Italy. Contact: ALM s.r.l., Via Lattuada 26, 20135 Milan

June 21-24. International Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host (7th). Boulder, Colo. Contact: Warren C. Snow, P.O. Box 319, Comstock, MI 49041, U.S.A.

June 27 - July 2. 18th International Congress of Chemotherapy. Stockholm, Sweden. Contact: Stockholm Convention Bureau, P.O. Box 6911, S-102 39 Stockholm, Sweden

May 11-14. International Symposium on Problems in June 29 - July 3. InternationalSymposium on Staphylococci

and Staphylococcal Infections (7th). Stockholm, Sweden. Contact: Congrex, Box 5619, S-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden

July 11-15. American Society for Virology Annual Scientific Meeting (llth). Ithaca, N.Y. Sponsor: Cornell University. Contact: Dr. Milton Zaitlin, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, 334 Plant Science Building, Ithaca, NY 14853-5098, tel. (607) 2553245; fax (607) 2554471.

July 12-17. Summer Update in Clinical Microbiology and Immunology (10th Annual). Jackson, Wyo. Sponsor: The University of Utah, Dept. of Pathology, Divisions of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology. Contact: Dr. John Matsen, Dept. of Pathology, Univ. of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84132; (801) 5817480.

July 13-17. Australian Society for Microbiology - New Zealand Microbiological Society Combined Annual Meeting. Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. Contact: Dr. D.J. Groot Obbink, Dept. of Microbiology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonard, NSW, 2065, Australia, tel. (02) 4388476 or 8752050; fax (02) 4387779.

August 2-7. Congress of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology (9th International), Ames, Iowa. Contact: Chris Minion, Iowa State University, Veterinary Medical Research Institute, 1802 Elwood Dr., Ames, IA 50011, tel. (515) 2946347; fax (515) 2941401.

August 16-20. Congress of Mucosal Immunology (7th International). Contact: Drs. Jerry R. McGhee and JM Mestecky, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of Microbiology, UAB Station, Birmingham, AL 35294, tel. (205) 934-5045/2225; fax (205) 934 3894.

August 16-21. Biotechnology Congress (9th International). Arlington, Va. Contact: Congress Office, American Chemical Society, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

August 17-20. Conference of the International Endotoxin Society (2nd). Vienna, Austria. Contact: Dr. Peter Stutz, c/o Interconvention, Austria Center Vienna, 1450 Vienna, Austria, tel. (43.1)23692643; fax (43.1) 2369648.

August 23-28. Symposium on Yeasts (8th International). Atlanta, Ga. Contact: Dr. Sally A. Meyer, Dept. of

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Biology, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4010, Atlanta, GA 30302-4010, tel. (404) 6512259; fax (404) 6512509

September 1-4. Topics in Mycology: Fungal Dimorphism (4th Symposium). Cambridge, U.K. Sponsor: Biochemistry Dept., University of Cambridge. Contact: Hugo Van den Bossche, Dept. of Comparative Biochemistry, Janssen Research Foundation, B-2340 Beerse, Belgium, tel. (32) 0 14/60 2220.

September 9-13. International Conference: Drugs of Abuse, Immunomodulation and Disease (AIDS), Tucson, Ariz. Contact: Dr. Ronald R. Watson, c/o Alcohol Research Center, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, tel. (602) 6266001; fax (602) 6262030.

September 15-18. International Conference on Tick-borne Diseases at the Host-Vector Interface: an Agenda for Research. Minneapolis St. Paul, Minn. Contact: Nancy Harvey, Education Development System, 405 Coffey Hall, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; (800) 3675363; (612) 6258215.

1993

March 28-31. European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (6th). Seville, Spain. Contact: 6th ECCMID, Apartado 6065, 41080 Seville, Spain, fax 34.5 4377413.

June 27 - July 2. International Congress of Chemotherapy (18th). Stockholm, Sweden. Contact: Congress Professor - Raguar Norrby, Lund, Sweden, Stockholm Convention Bureau, P.O. Box 6911, S-102 39 Stockholm, Sweden, tel. 46.8 230990; fax 46.8 348441.

July 10-14. American Society for Virology Scientific Meeting (12th Annual). Davis, Calif. Sponsor: University of California, Davis. Contact: Dr. George Gruening, Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, tel; (916) 7523474; fax (916) 7525674.

August 8-13. Congress of Virology, Glasgow, Scotland, Contact: Prof. D.H. Watson, Dept. of Microbiology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JK, United Kingdom, tel. 0532-335647; fax 0532-335638.