July 30, 2003 |
The final program is now available under Scientific Program. |
July 29, 2003 |
For those interested, the program for the Symposium on Assessing the burden of Taenia solium cysticercosis and echinococcosus (Thursday morning) is as follows:
9:00AM-10:30AM SYMPOSIUM: ASSESSING THE BURDEN OF TAENIA SOLIUM CYSTICERCOSIS AND ECHINOCOCCOSUS
Moderator: A.L. Willingham III, P.M. Schantz
Room: Napoleon B3
Assessing the burden and impact of cysticercosis and echinococcosus to justify global initiatives for combating these neglected parasitic zoonoses (Introduction).
A.L. Willingham III (9:00-9:10)
Assessing the burden of cysticercosis.
H. Carabin (9:10-9:35)
How does cysticercosis impact resource-poor communities in South Africa?
T. Krecek (9:35-9:50)
Taeniosis-cysticercosis in man and pigs in Ecuador.
P. Dorny (9:50-10:05)
Assessing the burden of echinococcosis.
P. Torgerson (10:05-10:30)
Break (10:30-10:45)
The burden and impact of echinococcosus in Australia.
D. Jenkins (10:45-11:00)
Cysticercosis and echinococcosis - Potential linkage with FAO activities and FAO support possibilities.
C. Eddi (11:00-11:15)
DISCUSSION (11:15- 12:00)
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July 23, 2003 |
We are planning to sell WAAVP 2003 T-shirts at the conference. We anticipate selling them for $8 (Medium and Large) and $10 (Extra Large and Extra Extra Large). |
June 4, 2003 |
The pre-registration deadline at the reduced rates has been extended to July 10.
Reminder to those who are making oral presentations. We will have PowerPoint presentations ONLY so please bring a ZIP disk or CD with you. We will NOT have slide projectors or overhead projectors. |
May 13, 2003 |
The deadline for abstract submissions (not travel
support applications) has been extended again until
June 2nd.
Travel support applications will be reviewed after
May 15th and notification is anticipated to be no later
than May 30th.
The Education Workshop will be dedicated to capturing
and processing video images for use in educational settings.
The complexity of parasitic structures is demonstrated
better using technology capable of showing depth of
field and 3-D aspects, as compared to static, kodachrome
images. The hope of the organizers is that some educators
have already employed video images in classes, or on
interactive CDs or websites, and are willing to share
ideas and images during this workshop. If the parasitology
educators can develop collaborative efforts in this
area, we can easily share video images with each other
as a means of improving the education of our students
worldwide. If sufficiently successful and organized,
we can arrange for subsequent WAAVP meetings to have
computers and CD/DVD burners available so that we can
bring our own images to the conference and leave with
a variety of images we would like to have for our courses.
If there are educators who would like to describe their
equipment and software, or show some images during the
workshop, please contact Cliff Monahan at ‘monahan.19@osu.edu’
and I will try to arrange the workshop schedule to incorporate
as many as possible. |
April 17, 2003 |
The deadline for abstracts and travel support applications
has been extended to May 15. If you haven’t been notified
by June 1 that your abstract/application has been received,
please contact Jim Miller at jmille1@lsu.edu.
All abstracts that follow the guidelines (see Scientific
Information) will be accepted, so plan your travel arrangements
accordingly.
Please visit the new Tour Information section for Wednesday
afternoon activities. |
