ELECTRONIC GLYCOSCIENCE CONFERENCE-1
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A form of this announcement is available via WWW at the URL:
http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/people/barry_spring95/barry.gig_econf.html
For those already registered:
This is a reminder post - if you have already pre-registered for
EGC-1, thank you - you will receive, in due course, a character name
and password for the Virtual Conference Centre from John Towell.
For those who have not yet registered:
If you have not pre-registered, I would just remind you that you will
not be able to take a full part in the conference unless you do
pre-register. Even though the pre-registration deadline is some
months away, it does help us to plan if we have as many people as
possible pre-register now. The pre-registration form at the foot of
this notice should be cut out and sent to me. Please use it if
possible and fill it in in sentence case rather than upper case -
this is so all forms are compatible and can be used automatically for
username/password allocation - otherwise I have to do this manually.
Also put country in the address and also country telephone code (in
form, for example +43-1-47654-6065 (where 43 = Austria, 1 = Wien,
etc)).
General Comments:
The First Electronic Glycoscience Conference (EGC-1) will be held on
the Internet (the Net) and World Wide Web (the Web) from Sept 18 - Oct
13, 1995. This international conference will cover a broad range of
disciplines related to carbohydrate and glycoconjugate molecules
including chemical, physical, biological and medical areas using
theoretical, experimental and computational approaches. EGC-1
will be a fully international event open to all members of
our scientific community. It is our intent that EGC-1 will be an
historic occasion from which we will move forward towards further
annual conferences and virtual resource creation for The Glycosciences.
Although the conference runs for what looks like a long period of time
by traditional standards, it is anticipated that participants might
often interweave the conference with other activities in their regular
schedule and thus have the flexibility to come and go to the conference
(flexi-conferencing). Participants should realise that this
event is experimental and they should we willing to attend with a
spirit of exploration and adventure. We believe that many
glycoscientists will benefit from an exposure to methods that
will revolutionise how we do science research and how we communicate as
scientists. Also, in addition to the presentation of technical scientific
information and results, we will use specific measures to strongly encourage
cross-disciplinary communication in language intelligible to general
scientists. For example, all technical papers will require an accompanying
communication explaining the primary methods, results and conclusions
of the paper in language accessible to a general scientific audience.
During and after the conference we anticipate the formation of
connections and cross-references between diverse areas of science and
technology in the Glycosciences.
Conference subject areas will include Glycosyltransferases,
Glycoimmunology, Primary Structure Determination, Glycolipids,
Organic Synthesis, Molecular Modeling, Design and Informatics, Lectins,
Polysaccharides and Cellulose, Proteoglycans and Glycosaminoglycans,
Therapeutics, Carbohydrate Biotechnology, Glycobiology, Crystallography,
NMR, Function of Carbohydrates in Biological Systems,
and Perspectives.
Papers will be prepared in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and
participants will view the papers via the World Wide Web. Aid and
consultation will be provided to participants during summer '95 to help
newcomers to the Web in the presentation of their conference paper.
During the conference discussions will take place via email using a
Net-based electronic mailing list. It is intended that papers will
be refereed prior to publication in both traditional and electronic formats.
In addition to a full technical paper authors will be required to
produce a shortened version of their paper that will summarize the
main approaches, results and conclusions of their work in language
accessible to all general scientists.
During EGC-1 participants will be able to register at a Virtual
Conference Center (VCC) created by Gustavo Glusman and the administrators
of BioMOO, a virtual meeting place for biologists, through Net-based
telnet sessions into a Networked Virtual Environment. There they will be
able to use their own rooms, schedule and attend meetings, hold private
talks, take and exchange notes, visit interactive poster sessions,
trade exhibits and an employment centre, and socialise.
During the conference participants will be able to contribute to
a collective creative project: The Glycoscience Hyperglossary (GH).
The GH will serve to define scientific terms and definitions of relevance
to the Glycosciences through the collective contribution of entries and
explanations to an electronic dictionary. The GH will be then be
published with the conference papers as an international information
resource subject to further refinement and evolution.
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DEADLINES AND DATES
1) DO NOW - GIG mailing list
Conference-related news and announcements will be posted regularly
to the GIG mailing list and the bionet glycosci newsgroup. If you
are not on the GIG list and want to be added to receive news on EGC-1
please email bhardy at convex.ox.ac.uk
2) DO NOW - Pre-Registration
If you intend to participate in EGC-1 please email your name,
institution, address, phone, fax, and email address using
the template for registration enclosed at the end of this
announcement. It should be emailed to wilson at edv1.boku.ac.at
You should pre-register even if you are not presenting a paper.
The deadline for pre-registration is Sept 1 1995.
3) DEADLINE for receipt of ABSTRACT.
The deadline for receipt of paper abstracts is July 1st. Email your
abstract directly to the appropriate section convener listed below.
Your abstract should be no longer than 300 words.
4) DEADLINE for receipt of PAPER.
The deadline for receipt of papers is Sept 1st. You can either 1)
deposit your text and graphics files at the conference ftp site
or 2) send in the Web address from which you will serve the paper.
More information will be provided in the next Conference Announcment.
5) Conference Commencement
The Conference will commence on Monday Sept 18th. The first week will
be used by registrants to register, to familiarise themselves with their
virtual surroundings and tools, and to commence reading of conference
papers.
6) The Conference
The main period of the conference will run from Monday Sept 25th to
Friday October 13th during which discussions and meetings will take place.
7) Refereeing Period
If you present a paper at EGC-1 you will be expected to contribute
a refereeing evaluation on another conference paper. Referee reports
will be due Friday October 27th. Final revised papers are due by
Friday November 24th.
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World Wide Web
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Pages will be loaded on World Wide Web during Spring and Summer
'95 that will provide further details on EGC-1 including guidance
and advice in preparing paper text and graphics for display on the Web.
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Trade Center
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The Conference will feature a Virtual Trade Center where commercial
vendors, consultants, manufacturers, and contractors will be able to
display their goods and services in return for donations of support
to conference activities.
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Job Center
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The Conference will provide Job Services in the Virtual Job Center
which will feature employment ads, interviews and aid in an interactive
environment.
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EGC-1 -- Posters
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The possibilites of presenting a poster at EGC-1 provide
participants significant flexibility. For example, a poster can
have very significant content when presented as a Web document and
can easily approach the depth of a real paper. Also, a 'poster'
can be presented in the sense that a 'talk' is presented at a
regular conference and can be accompanined by significant interactive
discussion. The poster option also allows the alternative presentation of
material which authors have published elsewhere in the same
sense that material is presented at regular talks. If authors
have a concern over copyright conficts we encourage the
use of original Figures or the release of permission from publishers.
We will retain abstracts of all posters as part of the permanent
publication of EGC-1 and also offer the option at the end of the conference
of retaining a premanent record of the poster if the author(s) desire.
If authors have a concern over copyright conficts we encourage the
use of original Figures or the release of permission from publishers.
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SECTIONS AND SECTION CONVENERS
(Please email section conveners with questions related to
your particular section and paper)
1. Glycosyltransferases
Harry Schachter,
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Email: harry at resunix.ri.sickkids.on.ca
2. Glycoimmunology
Roy Jefferis,
University of Birmingham, UK
Email: R.Jefferis at bham.ac.uk
3. Primary Structure Determination
Dave Ashford,
University of York, UK
Email: da5 at unix.york.ac.uk
4. Glycolipids
Ronald L. Schnaar,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Email: rschnaar at welchlink.welch.jhu.edu
5. Synthesis and Physical Organic Chemistry
Tim Gallagher,
University of Bristol, UK
Email: T.Gallagher at bristol.ac.uk
6. Molecular Modeling, Design and Informatics
Jerry Thomas,
Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Email: jerry at RUUCJ5.chem.ruu.nl
7. Lectins
Eric Toone,
Duke University, USA
Email: toone at chem.duke.edu
8. Polysaccharides and Cellulose
Andrepeter Heiner,
State Research Center, Finland
Email: Andrepeter.Heiner at vtt.fi
9. Proteoglycans and Glycosaminoglycans
Bob Lauder,
University of Lancaster, UK
Email: r.lauder at lancaster.ac.uk
10. Glycotherapeutics
Graham Turner
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Email: G.A.Turner at newcastle.ac.uk.
11. Carbohydrate Biotechnology
Liz Hounsell,
University College, London, UK
Email: ehounsel at bsm.biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk
12. General Glycobiology
Gerald W. Hart,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Email: gwhart at bmg.bhs.uab.edu
13. Crystallography
Bill Winter,
State University of New York, Syracuse, USA
Email: wtwinter at mailbox.syr.edu
14. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Steve Homans,
University of St. Andrews, UK
Email: swh at st-andrews.ac.uk
15. Function of Carbohydrates in Biological Systems
Diana Blithe,
National Institutes of Health, USA
Email: BlitheD at cc1.nichd.nih.gov
16. Glycoscience Perspectives: Past, Present and Future
Barry J. Hardy,
Oxford University, UK
Email: bhardy at convex.ox.ac.uk
Iain Wilson,
Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur, Wien, Austria
Email: wilson at edv1.boku.ac.at
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE CENTER
Manager
John Towell,
Northern Illinios University, USA
Email: m50jft1 at hayek.cob.niu.edu
Aide
Leonore A. Findsen,
University of Hawaii, Hawaii
Email: leonore at uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Alan Robinson Oxford University, UK Email:
alan at physchem.ox.ac.uk
Alan Robinson is providing conference participants
technical support now and during the conference. He
will try and help you with questions related to using the
Net/Web (setting up a server, writing hypertext), will be
providing the group answers to frequently asked
questions, and will provide advisory support on
preparing papers on Web pages. When sending him a
query please try to solve the problem first yourself. If you
have a question please keep it clear and concise and
place 'EGC QUERY' in your subject heading.
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS
(Please email us with any general questions or comments)
Barry J. Hardy,
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Lab,
Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, U.K.
Email: bhardy at convex.ox.ac.uk
Iain Wilson
Institut fuer Chemie der Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur
Gregor-Mendel-Strasse 33
A-1180, Wien, Austria
Email: wilson at edv1.boku.ac.at
"The difficulty in imagining the future
comes from the fact that the important changes are not quantitative.
The important changes are qualitative, not bigger and better rockets
but new styles of architecture, new rules by which the game of
exploration is played."
Freeman Dyson
*** EGC-1 : The Glycosciences Breaking through Boundaries ***********
****** with New Styles of Architecture and Exploration **************
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TEMPLATE FOR PRE-REGISTRATION:
Please return the following card via email to
wilson at edv1.boku.ac.at
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NAME:
INSTITUTION:
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS:
PHONE:
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