Dear colleagues:
I'm announcing a symposium planned for the annual meeting of the Society
of Protozoologists at the end of May at Raleigh, North Carolina. I am
scheduled to give my Past President address at this meeting and I have
used the opportunity to organize a symposium on "Genomics of Free-Living
Microbial Eukaryotes - State of the Art and Promise". The title of my
address, which in effect will be the first talk of the symposium, will
be "Toward Sequencing the Tetrahymena Genome: Exploiting the Gift of
Nuclear Dimorphism". The other symposium speakers will be Jasper Rine,
UC Berkeley (yeast); Susan Dutcher, U. Colorado (Chlamydomonas); and
Adam Kuspa, Baylor (Dictyostelium). I see the symposium as an
opportunity to 1) share the excitement and the promise created by the
availability of the complete genomic sequences and 2) to call attention
to microbial eukaryotes which are important as model systems and whose
genomes are being sequenced or are worthy of - and ready for -
sequencing.
There will be two other symposia in this meeting: Molecular Mechanisms
of Cell Motility and Emerging Opportunistic Protists. If you wish to
attend and contribute work at this meeting, and/or to find out how other
protists live and function, the abstract and early (cheaper)
registration deadlines are both coming up this Monday, March 15.
Relevant information and forms are available at the Society of
Protozoologists web page:
http://www.uga.edu/protozoa/meeting.htm
Best wishes,
Ed Orias
Eduardo Orias, Research Professor of Genetics
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Office Phone: (805)893-3024
Fax: (805)893-4724
E-mail: orias at lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu
