MEEGID IX University of California at Irvine, 30th October-1st November 2008

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MEEGID IX University of California at Irvine, 30th October-1st November 2008

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It is our pleasure to announce officially that the 9th International Meeting "Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases" (MEEGID IX), will be held at UC Irvine, California.
 

MEEGID IX will be co-organized by the University of California at Irvine (http://www.uci.edu/) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD; http://www.ird.fr/) in France. Principal organizers are Francisco J. Ayala (Dept Ecology and Evolution, UC Irvine) and Michel Tibayrenc (IRD).

Communications on genetics, genomics, proteomics, phylogenetics, population biology, mathematical modeling, and bioinformatics are welcome. They can report on the host, the pathogen, or the vector for vector-borne diseases. Papers considering host + pathogen or pathogen + vector (co-evolution) are particularly encouraged. All pathogens are within the scope of MEEGID: viruses, parasitic protozoa, helminths, fungal organisms, and prions. All infectious models can be explored, including those of veterinary or agronomical relevance.
 

Confirmed Speakers

 
Francisco J. Ayala (Dept Ecology and Evolution, UC Irvine): (i) Evolution of malaria; (ii) Darwin's Revolution
 
Robin Bush (Dept Ecology and Evolution, UC Irvine, California): Influenza Evolution
 
Koussay Dellagi (Centre for Research and Surveillance of Emerging Diseases in the Indian Ocean). Chikungunya epidemics
 
Appolinaire Djikeng (J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA) Viral genomics
 
Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford, UK) The role of immune selection on pathogen population structure
 
Henry Harpending (University of Salt Lake City): Infectious Diseases and Human Evolution
 
Austin Hugues (University of South Carolina, Columbia) The Importance of Purifying Selection in Pathogen Evolution

 
Tovi Lehmann (NIAID, NIH). Vector population genetics and genomics
 
James Musser (Cornell University, New York) Molecular Genetic Basis of Group A Streptococcus Epidemics
 
Martine Peeters (IRD Montpellier, France). HIV molecular evolution
 
Anne Rimoin (UC Los Angeles) : implementing active surveillance of human monkeypox in the democratic republic of Congo
 
Michel Tibayrenc (IRD, Bangkok, Thailand): Integrated evolutionary epidemiology: where are we now?
 
Nathan Wolfe (UC Los Angeles): Viral forecasting

The MEEGID meetings are organized in synergy with the new journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution (Elsevier; http://www.elsevier.com/locate/meegid), covering the same scientific topic. Launched only 6 years ago, Infection, Genetics and Evolution is now published with six issues per year, and has been indexed by Medline and Index Medicus, starting from the first issue. It has been quoted 3.5/5.0 ("very good") by the US National Library of Medicine. It is now covered by ISI and the official impact factor for 2007 is 2.407 (ISI Web of knowledge).

The papers communicated for MEEGID IX will be published in a special issue of Infection, Genetics and Evolution, as already done for MEEGID VI (Paris, July 2002) and MEEGID VIII (Bangkok, Thailand, November 2006). MEEGID IX will include 10-15 plenary lectures, about 20 specialized symposia, 12-15 "express-debates" (a 20-min presentation by a single speaker followed by 40 min of free discussion) and several poster sessions.

 
Special emphasis through plenary lectures and symposia will be given to health problems of particular interest to mediterranean and tropical countries: AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis (especially multidrug resistant TB), sleeping sickness, leishmanioses, Chagas disease, ebola, bird flu, Chikungunya, as well as cattle and crop pathogens. Plenary lectures and symposia will also deal with transversal topics such as population genetics or species concepts. The congress is open to proposals for conferences and symposia.

 
Awards will be attributed to the best oral communication, the best oral communication by a scientist from the Southern World on a problem specifically relevant to these areas, the best oral communication by a student, and the best communication by poster. Each prize winner will be offered a free 2-year subscription to Infection, Genetics and Evolution.

 

The abstract submission deadline is the 30th September 2008.

 
Registration Fee: 200.00 euros or equivalent in other currencies. Reduced fees upon request for scientists from developing countries who do not have international funds. Registration fees are waived for students.
 

Registration and abstract submission on:

http://www.th.ird.fr/site_meegid/meegid_registration.html

 

More information available at: http://www.th.ird.fr/site_meegid/menu.htm
 
Contact:
Michel Tibayrenc, MD, PhD
Editor -in-chief Infection, Genetics and Evolution (Elsevier)
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/meegid
IRD representative in Thailand
IRD Representative Office
French Embassy
29, Thanon Sathorn Tai,
Bangkok 10120, Thailand
Tel : + (66 2) 627 2190
Fax : + (66 2) 627 2194
Cel: + (66 8 1) 82 64 056
E-mail : Michel.Tibayrenc@...

Website : <http://www.th.ird.fr/>http://www.th.ird.fr

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