Recent GLRCE News
Recent GLRCE Publications
Kwak JS, Jeong HG, Satchell KJ. 2011. Vibrio vulnificus rtxA1 gene recombination generates toxin variants with altered potency during intestinal infection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108:1645-50. PMC3029691
Full text at Pubmed Central
Pier CL, Chen C, Tepp WH, Lin G, Janda KD, Barbieri JT, Pellett S, Johnson EA. 2011. Botulinum neurotoxin subtype A2 enters neuronal cells faster than subtype A1. FEBS Lett. 585:199-206. NIHMS260134
Pubmed Abstract
for a more detailed list please check our publications page.
Funding News: RCE RFA's offered nationwide.
Our colleagues from MRCE, NWRCE and PNWRCE have issued RFA and request for preproposal that are open nationwide. The themes addressed by these funding opportunities are more focused that in the past hence the the wider distribution.
MRCE RFA : Deadline Feb 15, 2011, up to 3 years and $ 150,000 /yearr, open to investigators new to the RCE program.
PNWRCE request for preproposal : Deadline Fed 14, 2011. Focus on flaviviruses and immune system response. Up to 3 years and a total of $ 250,000.
NWRCE request for preproposal: Deadline Feb 28, 2011. Up to 3 years and $ 200,000 - $ 300,000 / year.
2011 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical and Biological Terrorism Defense
The conference will be held at the Ventura Marriott Hotel in Ventura, California
on March 20-25, 2011.
The
theme of this conference will be “Basic Research as a Foundation for the
Development of Countermeasures”.
For more information and to view thepreliminary program, please visit the conference website at: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=defense.
Opportunities for young scientists:
The organizers strongly encourage the attendance of junior participants and will have some travel support available; further details on this will be available closer to the date. Please note that in addition to four poster sessions, there will be an “Open Mike” session with oral presentations to be selected from submitted abstracts.
Please note that a new Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) that will immediately precede the 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Chemical and Biological Terrorism Defense. The GRS, which will be held March 19-20, 2011 at the Ventura Marriott Hotel, is an excellent opportunity for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to present their research. For more information, please visit the website at: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=grs_defen
2010 Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology (CBD S&T) Conference: November 15-19, 2010
Business - DTRA frequently leverages the
capabilities and expertise found in both the private sector and
government,
strongly advocating relations with firms and businesses, including those
that
are small and disadvantaged, and other organizations of interest.
Learning
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There will be more than 800 combined keynote, platform, and poster
presentations
of the latest and best developments in chemical and biological defense
research.
Networking - Opportunities for
collaboration and synthesis are
numerous.
Topic descriptions can be found online under the Call for Papers page. Abstracts must be submitted through the conference website (http://cbdstconf2010.sainc.com/general_information/default.aspx) no later than 2 July 2010. A panel of subject matter experts will review each submission. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of August 2010.
Upcoming Workshops
- Dengue/Flaviviruses: (PNWRCE, PSWRCE and RMRCE) – August 24-25, 2010; Portland, OR
- Toxins:
(MARCE) – date TBD; perhaps September in Washington,
DC.
Overnight accommodations at the Doubletree Hotel Bethesda are available. A free shuttle to/from the meeting site at USUHS and the Doubletree Hotel will be provided.
Registration form and instructions for the workshop in MS Word 2007 (docx) format
For any questions, please send a note to Alison (aobrien@usuhs.mil) and Erik (eh2v@virginia.edu).
Announcement of the three Microbial Sequencing Centers awards
the three Microbial Sequencing Centers that have just been awarded contracts:
- The Broad Institute http://www.broad.mit.edu/seq/msc/
- J. Craig Venter Institute http://msc.jcvi.org/
- University of Maryland, Baltimore http://www.igs.umaryland.edu/?q=content/welcome
The goal of these centers is to provide rapid and cost-efficient production of high quality genome sequences of NIAID category A - C priority pathogens and invertebrate vectors of disease. The centers also offer genotyping platforms to identify genes that play a role in virulence, host-pathogen interaction and host susceptibility to infectious diseases.
NIAID will accept and review white papers to sequence microorganisms or their invertebrate vectors of infectious diseases that are considered agents of bioterrorism or cause emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases and related strains or species.
Investigators in academia, not-for-profit organizations, industry, and other government agencies worldwide may request microbial genome sequencing and genotyping services.
For further information on the services provided by the Microbial Sequencing Centers please visit: http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/LabsAndResources/resources/mscs/default.htm
Also, if you have any questions please feel free to contact Maria Giovanni (mgiovanni@niaid.nih.gov ) or Punam Mathur (mathurpu@niaid.nih.gov ).
The National Institutes of Health requires that all investigators funded by the NIH submit to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of their final peer-reviewed manuscripts. For more information, see http://researchadmin.uchicago.edu/about/announcement_publicaccess.shtml
The Nature Publishing Group, which produces the journal Nature and other publications, announced that it will offer a free service to deposit authors' pieces in PubMed Central and its British equivalent to comply with new requirements and many scientists' desire to have their work available free and online through open access archives.
From: http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/08/qt
Last Update: 2010-10-05
