May
5-9 May, Wed-Sun. 10th Global Warning International Conference & Expo, Fujiyoshida, Yamanshi, Japan. Information: GW10 International Program Committee, c/o Global Warming International Center USA, PO Box 5275, Woodridge IL 60517-0275 USA, fax: 1-630-910-1561
10-18 May, Mon-Tue. Ramsar Convention 7th Conference of the Parties: People and Wetlands--The Vital Link, San José, Costa Rica. Information: Ramsar Convention Bureau, rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland, +41-22-999-01-70, fax: +41-22-999-01-69, e-mail: ramsar@hq.iucn.org, Internet: http://w3.iprolink.ch/iucnlib/themes/ramsar
12-14 May, Wed-Fri. Food Irradiation '99--The Solution to the Food Safety Crisis? Arlington, Virginia. Information: Deborah Crommett, Conference Coordinator, Intertech Conferences, 411 U.S. Route One, Portland, ME 04105 USA, 207-781-9800, fax: 207-781-2150, e-mail: info@intertechusa.com, Internet: http://www.intertechusa.com
17-19 May, Mon-Wed. 8th Annual Retreat: Oxidants/Antioxidants in Foods and Health Promotion, Bloomingdale, Illinois. Information: Duane Fimreite, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, 545 PHARM (MC 877), 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612-7231 USA, 312-996-1203, fax: 312-355-0745, e-mail: dfimreit@uic.edu, Internet: http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/ffh/retreat99.html
16-20 May, Sun-Thu. Joint Meeting: Pan-American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Canadian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California. Information: ASBMB Meeting Office, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 USA, 301-530-7010, fax: 301-530-7014, e-mail: jlash@faseb.org, Internet: http://www.faseb.org
19-23 May, Wed-Sun. American Cancer Society 2nd World Conference for Cancer Organizations, Atlanta, Georgia. Information: Joann Schellenbach, Media Relations, ACS, 1599 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-4251 USA, 212-382-2169, e-mail: 103204.514@compuserve.com
22-29 May, Sat-Sat. 2nd International Symposium on GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein), San Diego, California. Information: William Ward, Rutgers University, Cook College Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, 76 Lipman Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525 USA, 732-932-9562, extension 216, fax: 732-932-8965
24-25 May, Mon-Tue. Environmental Influences on Children: Brain, Development, and Behavior, New York, New York. Information: Catherine McVay Hughes, The Center for Children's Health and the Environment, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574 USA, 212-241-8557 or 212-241-8689, fax: 212-360-6965, e-mail: caterine.hughes@mountsinai.org, Internet: http://www.mssm.edu/cpm/home-page.html or http://benson.niehs.nih.gov/sbrp/
30 May-3 June, Sun-Thu. American Society for Microbiology 99th General Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Information: American Society for Microbiology, 1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA, 202-942-9356, fax: 202-942-9340, e-mail: meetingsinfo@asmusa.org, Internet: http://www.asm.org
June
3-5 June, Thu-Sat. First Annual Symposium on Horizons in Developmental Toxicology and Developmental Biology, Madison, Wisconsin. Information: EHS Center for Developmental and Molecular Toxicology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 550 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1293 USA, 608-263-5557, fax: 608-262-5245, e-mail: kaholtgr@facstaf.wisc.edu
4-7 June, Fri-Mon. Pediatric Environmental Health Conference: Key Concepts for Health Care Providers and Faculty, San Francisco, California. Information: Susannah Donahue, Children's Environmental Health Network, 5900 Hollis Street, Suite R3, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA, 510-597-1393, fax: 510-597-1399, e-mail: sdonahue@cehn.org, Internet: http://www.cehn.org/
6-8 June, Sun-Tue. 3rd Colloquium on Particulate Air Pollution and Human Health, Durham, North Carolina. Information: Toni Moore, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, 57 Old Forge Road, Tuxedo, NY 10987-5007 USA, 914-351-2300, e-mail: moore@charlotte.med.nyu.edu
6-10 June, Sun-Thu. 5th International Conference on Chemical Structures, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands. Information: G. Grethe, MDL Information Systems, 14600 Catalina Street, San Leandro, CA 94577 USA, 510-895-1313, fax: 510-614-3638, e-mail: guenter@mdli.com
7-9 June, Mon-Wed. International Conference on Lead Exposure, Reproductive Toxicity, and Carcinogenicity, Gargnano, Italy. Information: Lead Conference, Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology, IARC, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 8, France, +33-(0)-4-72-73-85-54, fax: +33-(0)-4-72-73-83-42, e-mail: leadconf@iarc.fr, Internet: http://www.iarc.fr/meetings/boffetta.htm
7-11 June, Mon-Fri. 13th Session of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Group on Registration Requirements, Rome, Italy. Information: Gerold Wyrwal, Plant Protection Service, Pesticide Management Unit, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100-Rome RM, Italy, +39-6-5705-2753, fax: +39-6-5705-6347, e-mail: Gerold.Wyrwal@fao.org
13-18 June, Sun-Fri. 7th International Conference of the Israel Society for Ecology and Environmental Quality Sciences: Environmental Challenges for the Next Millennium, Jerusalem, Israel. Information: Ecology '99 Conference Secretariat, PO Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel, +972-3-514-0000, fax: +972-3-514-0077, e-mail: ecology99@kenes.com
16-18 June, Wed-Fri. 3rd Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, London, United Kingdom. Information: WHO Regional Office for Europe, Scherfigsvej 8, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, +45-39-17-17-17, fax: +45-39-17-18-18, Internet: http://www.who.dk/london99/
16-19 June, Wed-Sat. 7th Nordic Symposium on Trace Elements in Human Health and Disease, Espoo, Finland. Information: Leena Huhtamaa, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FIN-00250 Helsinki, Finland, +358-9-4747-405, fax: +358-9-4747-548, e-mail: leena.huhtamaa@occuphealth.fi
20-23 June, Sun-Wed. 7th International Symposium on Neurobehavioral Methods and Effects in Occupational and Environmental Health, Sollentuna, Sweden. Information: BokningsBolaget, Torstenssonsgaten 3, SE-114 56 Stockholm, Sweden, +46-8-660-8595, fax: +46-8-663-1745, e-mail: congress@bokningsbolaget.se, Internet: http://www.niwl.se/konf/neurotox/
24-26 June, Thu-Sat. 1999 Open Meeting: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Shonan Village, Kanagawa, Japan. Information: 1999 Open Meeting Secretariat, IGES, Shonan Village Center 1560-39, Kami-Yamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0198 Japan, fax: +81-4-6855-3709, e-mail: hdgec@iges.or.jp, Internet: http://www.iges.or.jp/
25-26 June, Fri-Sat. 5th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North Atlantic Chapter, Boston, Massachusetts. Information: Patti Tyler, U.S. EPA New England, 60 Westview Street, Lexington, MA 02173, 781-860-4342, fax: 781-860-4397, e-mail: tyler.patti@epamail.epa.gov
26 June-1 July, Sat-Thu. World Conference on Science, Budapest, Hungary. Information: Secretariat, World Conference on Science, UNESCO, 7 place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris, France, fax: +33-1-45-68-58-23, e-mail: confsci@unesco.org
27-30 June, Sun-Wed. EUROTOX '99: 37th European Congress of Toxicology, Oslo, Norway. Information: EUROTOX '99, Help Arrangement Service, PO Box 527, N-1301 Sandvika, Norway, +47-67-56-90-12, fax: +47-67-56-44-80, e-mail: chaskim@sn.no, Internet: http://www.uta.fi/eurotox
July
4-8 July, Sun-Thu. African International Environmental Protection Symposium, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Information: Richard A. Daneel, Soil & Pollution Research Services, Suite 101, Postnet X6, Cascades, 3202 South Africa, +27-33-1-(0331)-962696, fax: +27-33-1-(0331)-962696, e-mail: soil&pol@sprs.co.za, Internet: http://www.sprs.co.za
6-9 July, Tue-Fri. National Environmental Health Association 63rd AEC and Exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee. Information: NEHA, 720 S. Colorado Blvd., Ste. 970-S, Denver, CO 80246-1925 USA, 303-756-9090, fax: 303-691-9490, e-mail: staff@neha.org, Internet: http://www.neha.org
6-10 July, Tue-Sat. 1st World Congress of Health and Urban Environment, Madrid, Spain. Information: TILESA, Londres 17, E-28028 Madrid, Spain, +34-1-361-26-00, fax: +34-1-355-92-08, e-mail: tilesa@wpa.es
10-14 July, Sat-Wed. 18th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology, Amherst, Massachusetts. Information: Sidney Grossberg, Attn: Judy Karl, American Society for Virology, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226-0509 USA, 414-456-8104, fax: 414-456-6566, e-mail: jkarl@mcw.edu, Internet: http://www.mcw.edu/asv/1999mtg.html
11-15 July, Sun-Thu. 9th European Congress on Biotechnology, Brussels, Belgium. Information: ECB9 Secretariat, Documenta, Lakenweversstraat 21, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, +32-2-510-2314, fax: +32-2-510-2615, e-mail: benoit.leveque@fabrimetal.be, Internet: http://www.ecb9.be/
11-15 July, Sun-Thu. 5th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, Wien, Austria. Information: Conference Secretariat, PO Box 81, A-1183 Wien, Austria, +43-1-47654-3119, fax: +43-1-47654-3105, e-mail: icobte@edv1.boku.ac.at, Internet: http://www.boku.ac.at/boden/icobte/program.htm
24-28 July, Sat-Wed. 13th Symposium of the Protein Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Information: ASBMB Meeting Office, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 USA, 301-530-7010, fax: 301-530-7014, e-mail: jlash@faseb.org, Internet: http://www.faseb.org
25-30 July, Sun-Fri. 14th International Plant Protection Congress--Plant Protection Towards the Third Millennium: Where Chemistry Meets Ecology, Jerusalem, Israel. Information: Congress Secretariat, PO Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel, +972-3-514-0014, fax: +972-3-517-5674, e-mail: IPPC@kenes.com
August
8-13 August, Sun-Fri. 97th Annual Convention of the National Medical Association, Las Vegas, Nevada. Information: National Medical Association, 1012 Tenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20001-4492 USA, 202-347-1895, fax: 202-842-3293
11-13 August, Wed-Fri. 1st International Conference on Children's Health and Environment, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Information: Peter van den Hazel, Dutch Association of Environmental Medicine, PO Box 389, 6802 AJ Arnhem, the Netherlands, +31-26-377-39-15, fax: +31-26-377-38-47, e-mail: pvdhazel@inter.nl.net, Internet: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/nvmm/
22-26 August, Sun-Thu. American Chemical Society 218th National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Information: ACS Meetings, 1155 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-4899 USA, 202-872-4396, fax: 202-872-6128, e-mail: a_nelson@acs.org
29 August-2 September, Sun-Thu. 3rd World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Bologna, Italy. Information: Public Relations and Publications Unit, Joint Research Centre, 21020-Ispra VA, Italy, +39-(0)-3-3278-9889, fax: +39-(0)-3-3278-2435, e-mail: prp@jrc.it, Internet: http://www.jrc.it/jrc/
30 August-2 September, Mon-Thu. 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, Dunedin, New Zealand. Information: Linda Robson, Conference Manager, Department of Computing & Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph ON, N1G 2W1, Canada, 519-824-4120, extension 3760, fax: 519-837-0323, e-mail: linda@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
30 August-3 September, Mon-Fri. International Symposium on Technologies for the Management of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Power Plants and Back End Nuclear Fuel Cycle Activities, Taejon, Republic of Korea. Information: International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-SM-357, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100, Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, +43-1-2600-0, fax: +43-1-2600-7, e-mail: official.mail@iaea.org
31 August-4 September, Tue-Sat. 15th International Scientific Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association--Epidemiology for Sustainable Health, Florence, Italy. Information: Organizing Secretariat, IEA Florence '99, c/o Sinedrion, Via G. Marconi 27, 50131-Firenze, Italy, +39-55-570-502, fax: +39-55-575-679, e-mail: iea99@stats.ds.unifi.it
September
1-5 September, Wed-Sun. Pseudomonas '99: Biotechnology and Pathogenesis, Maui, Hawaii. Information: American Society for Microbiology, 1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA, 202-942-9356, fax: 202-942-9340, e-mail: Meetingsinfo@asmusa.org
2-8 September, Thu-Wed. 6th International Conference on Hydrogen Materials Science and Chemistry of Metal Hydrides (ICHMS '99), Katsiveli, Ukraine. Information: D.V. Schur, Program Committee, ICHMS '99, PO Box 195, Kyiv-150, 252150, Ukraine, +380-044-444-0001, fax: +380-044-444-0381, e-mail: shurzag@ipms.kiev.ua
5-9 September, Sun-Thu. 6th International Congress on Hormones and Cancer, Jerusalem, Israel. Information: Congress Secretariat, PO Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel, +972-3-514-0000, fax: +972-3-514-0077, e-mail: hormones@kenes.com, Internet: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/Biological_Regulation/conf/hormones_cancer/
8-10 September, Wed-Fri. 5th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment for the 21st Century, Rhodes, Greece. Information: Sally Radford, Conference Secretariat, UT 99, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7AA, United Kingdom, +44-(0)-1-703-293-223, fax: +44-(0)-1-703-292-853, e-mail: sradford@wessex.ac.uk
9-11 September, Thu-Sat. ISEM International Multidisciplinary Conference on Environmental Medicine, Graz, Austria. Information: Congress Secretariat, Semaco Ges.m.b.H, Firmianstrasse 3, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria, +43-662-826878, fax: +43-662-826878-4, e-mail: congress@semaco.co.at, Internet: http://www.isem.at/isem/
15-18 September, Wed-Sat. Conference on Global Lung Health and the 1999 Annual Conference of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Madrid, Spain. Information: L. Fernández Fau, Organising Committee Secretariat, Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica, Balmes 68, pral., 08007 Barcelona, Spain, +93-487-85-65, fax: +93-487-85-09, e-mail: lffau@separ.es
22-26 September, Wed-Sun. Molecular Aspects of Metastasis, Snowmass, Colorado. Information: American Association for Cancer Research, Public Ledger Building, Suite 826, 150 South Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3483 USA, 215-440-9300, fax: 215-440-9313, e-mail: meetings@aacr.org
October
13-15 October, Wed-Fri. Disposal and Utilization of Sewage Sludge Treatment Methods and Application Modalities, Athens, Greece. Information: Andreas Andreadakis, Organising Committee, Water Resources Department, National Technical University of Athens, 5 Iroon Polytechniou Street, 15773 Athens, Greece, +30-1-772-2897, fax: +30-1-772-2899, e-mail: andre1@central.ntua.gr
17-20 October, Sun-Wed. 17th International Neurotoxicology Conference--Children's Health and the Environment: Mechanisms and Consequences of Developmental Neurotoxicology, Little Rock, Arkansas. Information: Joan Cranmer, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 1120 Marshall, Room 304, Little Rock, AR 72202 USA, 501-320-2986, fax: 501-320-4978, e-mail: CranmerJoanM@exchange.uams.edu
17-21 October, Sun-Thu. American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine State-of-the-Art Conference, San Antonio, Texas. Information: ACOEM, 55 West Seegers Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60005 USA, 847-228-6850, fax: 847-228-1856, Internet: http://www.acoem.org
18-21 October, Mon-Thu. 15th Annual Conference on Contaminated Soils, Amherst, Massachusetts. Information: Association for the Environmental Health of Soils, 150 Fearing Street, Amherst, MA 01002 USA, 413-549-5170, fax: 413-549-0579, Internet: http://www.aehs.com/
27-30 October, Wed-Sat. 59th Annual American Medical Writers Association Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Information: AMWA, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814 USA, 301-493-0003, fax: 301-493-6384, Internet: http://www.amwa.org/
November
7-11 November, Sun-Thu. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Chicago, Illinois. Information: Charlene Bright, APHA, 1015 15th Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005 USA, 202-789-5600, fax: 202-789-5661, Internet: http://www.apha.org/
8-12 November, Mon-Fri. 15th International Congress of Biometeorology and International Conference on Urban Climatology, Sydney, Australia. Information: ICB-ICUC'99 Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia, +61-(0)-2-9262-2277, fax: +61-(0)-2-9262-3135, e-mail: ICBICUC@tourhosts.com.au
December
5-8 December, Sat-Tue. 15th Asia Pacific Cancer Conference, Chennai, India. Information: 15th APCC Secretariat, Cancer Institute, 18 Sardar Patel Road, Chennai (Madras) 600036, India, +91-44-235-0131, fax: +91-44-491-2085, e-mail: caninst@md2.vsnl.net.in
5-8 December, Sat-Tue. Ecohazard '99: Hazard Assessment and Control of Environmental Contaminants, Otsu City, Japan. Information: Yoshihisa Shimizu, Research Centre for Environmental Quality Control, Kyoto University, 1-2 Yumihama, Otsu City, Shiga 520-0811, Japan, fax: +81-77-524-9869, e-mail: Eco99@biwa.eqc.kyoto-u.ac.jp
2000
February
17-22 February, Thu-Tue. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, Washington, DC. Information: Meetings Office, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA, 202-326-6450, fax: 202-289-4021, e-mail: confinfo@aaas.org
March
12-15 March, Sun-Wed. 8th Biennial Conference on Antiinfective Agents and Chemotherapy, München, Germany. Information: Futuramed Congress Organization, Albert-Schweitzer-Strasse 62/I, D-81735 München, Germany, +49-(0)-89-674-047, fax: +49-(0)-89-670-1434, e-mail: 100771.2250@compuserve.com
26-31 March, Sun-Fri. American Chemical Society 219th National Meeting, San Francisco, California. Information: ACS Meetings, 1155 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-4899 USA, 202-872-4396, fax: 202-872-6128, e-mail: a_nelson@acs.org
April
1-5 April, Sat-Wed. 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, San Francisco, California. Information: AACR, Public Ledger Building, Suite 826, 150 South Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3483 USA, 215-440-9300, fax: 215-440-9313, e-mail: aacr@aacr.org
11-15 April, Tue-Sat. Genomes 2000: International Conference on Microbial and Model Genomes, Paris, France. Information: American Society for Microbiology, 1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA, 202-942-9356, fax: 202-942-9340, e-mail: Meetingsinfo@asmusa.org
