Select Faculty Member Mark R. Brown Donald E. Champagne Daniel G. Colley Harry W. Dickerson, Jr. Roberto Docampo Stephen L. Hajduk Jessica Kissinger Patrick J. Lammie Kojo A. Mensa-Wilmot Julie M. Moore Silvia N.J. Moreno Ynes R. Ortega David S. Peterson Pejman Rohani Robert Sabatini Mike R. Strand Boris Striepen Rick L. Tarleton

18th Annual Molecular Parasitology/Vector Biology Symposium

Sponsored by the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases

September 19/20, 2008

If you have attended the Annual Molecular Parasitology/Vector Biology Symposium in Athens in the past, you know this meeting is usually held each year at the end of the Spring semester in April/May. We would like to let you know that in 2008 we will have organized a special and extended version of this event on the occasion of CTEGD's 10th birthday. For scheduling reasons this year the symposium will not be held in Spring but in the Fall on September 18/19, 2008 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the UGA campus in Athens. The symposium will start on Friday morning and end on Saturday a little after lunch. With generous support from various sources we have been able to invite ten of the most prominent researchers in our field from around the World.

Confirmed Invited Speakers: Juan Jose Cazzulo (Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, San Martín, Argentina); George Cross (Rockefeller University, New York, NY); Jean-François Dubremetz, (University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France); William Gause, (New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ); Paul Kaye (University of York, York, UK); Elena Levashina (University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France); Malcolm McConville, (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia); Artur Scherf, (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France); Andy Waters, (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK); Elizabeth Winzler (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA).

The symposium will mix 10 longer presentations by invited speakers with ten shorter talks selected from the abstracts submitted by attendees. As always there will be a poster session and various other opportunities for interaction. We will likely be able to keep this an event free of a registration fee and provide the meals (you will have to cover the one night stay, Athens hotels are very moderately priced). Please mark this date in your calendar as we hope that you will be able to join us for this exciting conference.

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Boris Striepen, Silvia Moreno & Robert Sabatini (Organizing Committee)