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Past conferences
1st Virtual Global Conference on Organic Beef
Cattle Production
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 | review progress with the formulation of supporting policies and legislation for primary-level animal health workers |
| identify key lessons learned and make recommendations regarding future policy and legislative needs. |
The conference will take the form of keynote presentations,
submitted papers and posters and facilitated group discussions
to arrive at recommendations regarding future policy and legis-lative
needs.
Papers and Posters
Papers and posters are invited on the five themes outlined
below. Papers selected by the technical committee will be
limited to 15 minutes for presentation with a further 5 minutes
for discussion. A 200 word abstract should be submitted by
end of March 2002 and an electronic and hard copy of the full
paper should be available at the conference. Full proceedings
will be published shortly after the conference.
Themes
1. General policy, legislation and institutional issues
2. Financial sustainability and privatisation
3. Policies and Animal Health Research
4. Policy on training and learning issues
5. Policy on community-based surveillance
For further information, please contact:
Conference organizer
Dr Keith Sones
c/o CAPE Unit,
PACE Programme,
OAU/IBAR
PO Box 30786
00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Fax: +254 2 212289
e-mail: ksones@net2000ke.com
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Conference 'Responding to the Increasing Global Demand for Animal Products'
The conference Responding to the Increasing Global Demand for Animal Products will be held at the University of Yucatan, Merida, Mexico, 12-15 November 2002.
The conference is a joint effort by the British Society of Animal Science, the American Society of Animal Science, the Mexican Society of Animal Production and of course the host institution - The University of Yucatan. Up-to-date information including costs can be found at www.bsas.org.uk.
If you need more info, would like to help or sponsor, please get in touch with Mike Steele at bsas@ed.sac.ac.uk or M.Steele@ed.sac.ac.uk.
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International Seminar on
Parasitology and the 9th Congress of the
Indonesian Parasitic Disease Control Association, 11-12 September 2002.
Organised by the Indonesian Parasitic Disease Control Association (P4I) in
Collaboration with Centre Research Institute for Animal Sciences (CRIAS)
and
Bogor Agricultural University (IPB).
Objectives of the Seminar
| Identify parasitic diseases in South-East Asia that are likely to emerge as a result of global trading. |
| Exchange knowledge and experience in various aspects of parasitology |
| Enhancement of research capabilities through networking as well as other collaborative activities |
Scientific Program
The seminar will include lectures, oral and poster
presentations of interest to Veterinary, Medical and Marine Parasitology
with the main theme "Globalisation and transboundary parasitic
infection in
South-East Asia".
Plenary lectures
Plenary lectures will be given by invited speakers from Indonesia, Australia and other countries in the following topics:
| Malaria |
| Selection of breed resistant-sheep to control-gastrointestinal helminth infection in South East Asia |
| Collaborative research for parasite control |
| Novel strategies for parasite control |
| Integrated parasite control in aquaculture, native animals and livestock |
| Travel medicine |
| Traditional medicine and drug development for parasitic diseases |
| Zoonotic parasite |
| Molecular biology of parasitic diseases |
| Epidemiology of parasites and their vectors |
Seminar Venue
The seminar will be held on 11 - 12 September 2002 in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.
The second announcement will give further information about the Call for
Abstracts and the Preliminary Programme. It will also include a conference
registration form. Mailing will take place in March 2002. Please complete
the attached Notice of Interest Form (or use email) and mail to the
Conference Secretariat :
KELTI Parasitologi
Balai Penelitian Veteriner
Jl. R.E. Martadinata No. 30 - Bogor 16114, Indonesia
Phone 62 (0) 251 331048/334456
Telefax : 62 (0) 251 326425
E-mail: para@ indo.net.id
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Novel Approaches Meeting III
A workshop meeting on helminth control in
livestock in the new millennium
Edingburgh, 2 - 5 July 2002
Venue: Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sessions
| Genetic selection |
| Targeting therapy |
| Vaccines |
| Nutrition/Plants with anthelmintic properties |
| Biological control |
| Organic farming |
Workshop format
Following the successful meetings in Armidale (1995) and Louisiana (1998) the meeting will follow a workshop format including presentations by the session co-ordinators, discussion period followed by a small number of relevant short (15 min) communications. Contributors can also present a maximum of 3 acetates during the workshop discussion. A poster session will be linked to each of the themed workshops.
Registration
Registration: before 30/04/2002 Researcher £110 and Student £55. After
this date Researcher £140 and Student £70. Registration costs include
conference pack, coffees, lunches, transport and conference dinner
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday May 31st 2002.
Full details of the meeting and a registration form can be obtained at www.mri.sari.ac.uk/novel3/
Questions about the programme should be addressed to:
Sandra McGill
Meetings Secretary
Moredun Research Institute, Pentland Science Park
Bush Loan, Penicuik
Edinburgh, EH26 0PZ
mcgis@mri.sari.ac.uk
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International Workshop on Sustainable Trade
and Conservation of
Medicinal Plant Resources
Rabat, Morocco, 2-4 May 2002
The workshop is organised in connection with the conference ‘International Colloquium on the Medicinal Plants / Health / Environmental and Development’.
Workshop objectives
| To assess the impact of trade in medicinal plants on the conservation of the resource base in Africa. |
| To identify key challenges experiences and opportunities in promoting medicinal plants and natural products business and bioprospecting in Africa. |
Workshop topics
| Mechanisms, strategies, partnership and co-operation for encouraging bioprospecting-based business in medicinal plants and phytomedicines, taking into consideration conservation requirements |
| Status of trade, benefit sharing and indigenous knowledge (mechanisms, models and case studies) |
| Benefit sharing and current trends in the protection of intellectual property rights in the field of traditional medicines and bioprosecting |
| Developing and using indigenous/ traditional knowledge for promoting bioprospecting for the benefit of local communities. |
There will be a registration fee. For more information and registration, send an e-mail to: info@conserveafrica.org
Participants can also attend the overall conference. For more
information, contact:
Pr. Dr. M. HMAMOUCHI
E-mail : hmamouchim@hotmail.com
or hmamouchim@wanadoo.net.ma
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Conference 'UK Organic Research 2002:
Research in Context'
26-28th March 2002,
Aberystwyth, UK
This first UK national conference of the Colloquium of Organic Researchers
(COR) aims to:
| Promote
a whole system approach to research in this varied field |
| Develop
appropriate methodologies and statistical techniques |
| Improve
the flow of knowledge between researchers and users |
| Address
the needs of a UK and international audience |
| Present
full papers of the proceedings available at the Conference. |
The programme includes four livestock related sessions with a total of 16 papers and a number of posters on grassland management, organic dairy farming, development of other livestock systems to meet organic aims and animal health and welfare.
Pre-conference
tours of Welsh organic research farms are available.
For more details, see www.organic.aber.ac.uk/COR.shtml, e-mail UK-Organic2002@aber.ac.uk, tel. 01970 622248 or fax 01970 622238.
IBC conference 'Natural Products and
Cosmeceuticals 2002'
Munic, Germany, March 18-19
The conference will offer valuable market, regulatory and product
information and excellent networking opportunities with major company
representatives in our field.
You find the complete program under:
www.ibc-lifesci.com/naturalproducts
Dr. Joerg Gruenwald
President
Phytopharm Research
Phytopharm Consulting
a unit of analyze & realize ag
Waldseeweg 6, 13467 Berlin/Germany
jgruenwald@analyze-realize.com
Tel: +49 30 4000 8111
Fax: +49 30 4000 8500
www.phytonet.com
www.phytopharm.org
www.analyze-realize.com
