Fifth Annual Conference on New and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases. (News & Notes).University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL April 18-19, 2002 The Fifth Annual Conference on New and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases will be held April 18-19, 2002. On April 18, 2002 the conference will be held at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific , Bevier Hall Auditorium. The keynote speakers are Dr. Beatrice H. Hahn, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB began in 1936 as the Birmingham Extension Center of the University of Alabama. Because of the rapid growth of the Birmingham area, it was decided that an extension program for students who had difficulties which prevented them from studying in Tuscaloosa was needed. , Birmingham, AL (SIV reservoirs and human zoonotic risk) and Dr. Dr. Matthew K. Waldor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute, (HHMI), nonprofit medical research organization founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes and largly funded from proceeds of the 1984–85 sale of Hughes Aircraft. Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md. , Division of Geographic Medicine/Infectious Diseases, New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine The Tufts University School of Medicine is one of the eight schools that comprise Tufts University. Located on the university's health sciences campus in the Chinatown district of Boston, Massachusetts, the medical school has clinical affiliations with thousands of doctors and , Boston, MA, (Cholera toxin). On April 19, 2002, morning and afternoon sessions will be held at Hawthorne Suites Hotel, Champaign from 8:15 am to 6:00 p.m. Invited speakers and topics include: Dr. Edward M. Eitzen, Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Derrick, Maryland (Biological weapons); Dr. John Donelson, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Iowa Not to be confused with Iowa State University. The first faculty offered instruction at the University in March 1855 to students in the Old Mechanics Building, situated where Seashore Hall is now. In September 1855, the student body numbered 124, of which, 41 were women. (The genome of African trypanosomes); Dr. Daniel Goldberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine Washington University School of Medicine, located in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the most competitive and highly regarded medical schools and biomedical research institutes in the United States. , St. Louis, MO, (Genome-wide analysis of malaria parasites); Dr. Barry N. Kreiswirth, Director, Public Health Research Institute Tuberculosis Center, New York, N.Y. (Global dissemination of the multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis). Those interested in presenting a poster must submit an Abstract Form available at our web site: http:// www.cvm.uiuc.edu/idc/. Submission deadline to abstracts is April 5, 2002. |
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