June

1-2 June, Thu-Fri. Bridging the Gap: Developmental Toxicology and Biology, Madison, Wisconsin. Information: Kim Voss, EHS Center for Developmental and Molecular Toxicology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 550 Babcock Drive, B157 Steenbock Library, Madison, WI 53706 USA, 608-263-5557, fax: 608-262-5245, e-mail: ehsadmin@ehscenter.wisc.edu

4-7 June, Tue-Fri. Ventilation 2000: 6th International Symposium on Ventilation for Contaminant Control, Helsinki, Finland. Information: Symposium Secretariat, Ventilation 2000, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (Työterveyslaitos), Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FIN-00250 Helsinki, Finland, +358-9-4747-900, fax: +358-9-2413-804, Internet: http://www.occuphealth.fi/

6-8 June, Tue-Thu. 5th National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory Symposium: Indicators in Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Information: Anne Barnes Miller, Environmental Research Center, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MD-73, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 USA, 919-541-0328, fax: 919-541-0317, e-mail: barnes-miller.anne@epamail.epa.gov

11-16 June, Sun-Fri. Joint Conference of the European Society for Biochemical Pharmacology and the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics: DMW/ISSX 2000, Fife, Scotland. Information: Meeting Makers, Jordanhill Campus, 76 Southbrae Drive, Glasgow G13 1PP, Scotland, United Kingdom, +44-0-141-434-1500, fax: +44-0-141-434-1519, e-mail: dmwissx2000@meetingmakers.co.uk

13-15 June, Tue-Thu. NBC 2000: Symposium on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats in the 21st Century, Espoo, Finland. Information: Association of Finnish Chemical Societies, NBC 2000, Hietaniemenkatu 2, FIN-00100 Helsinki, Finland, fax: +358-9-408-780, Internet: http://www.vtt.fi/aut/rm/spt/index1.htm

15-19 June, Thu-Mon. National Environmental Health Association 64th Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado. Information: NEHA, 720 South Colorado Boulevard, Suite 970-S, Denver, CO 80246-1925 USA, 303-756-9090, fax: 303-691-9490, Internet: http://www.neha.org/

16-19 June, Fri-Mon. Role of Neural Plasticity in Chemical Intolerance, New York, New York. Information: Science and Technology Meetings, New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10021 USA, 212-838-0230, extension 324, fax: 212-838-5640, e-mail: conference@nyas.org, Internet: http://www.nyas.org/

18-22 June, Sun-Thu. 4th International Conference on Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects, San Diego, California. Information: Willard Chappell, University of Colorado at Denver, Campus Box 36, PO Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364 USA, 303-556-4520, fax: 303-556-4292, e-mail: as2000@carbon.cudnver.edu, Internet: http://www.cudenver.edu/as2000/

20-24 June, Tue-Sat. Tuberculosis 2000: Past, Present, and Future, New York, New York. Information: American Society for Microbiology Conferences, 1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA, 202-942-9248, fax: 202-942-9340, e-mail: MeetingsInfo@asmusa.org

21-24 June, Wed-Sat. 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Montréal, Canada. Information: Kevin L. Hickey, Economics/Global Studies Department, Assumption College, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01615-0005 USA, 508-767-7296, fax: 508-767-7382, e-mail: khickey@assumption.edu, Internet: http://champion.iupui.edu/~mreiter/iea.htm

22-25 June, Thu-Sun. Atlantic Coast Contaminants Workshop--Endocrine Disruptors in the Marine Environment: Impacts on Marine Wildlife and Human Health, Bar Harbor, Maine. Information: S. Wilcomb, The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500 USA, 207-288-6419, fax: 207-288-6080, e-mail: slw@jax.org, Internet: http://www.meriresearch.org/workshop.html

25-26 June, Sun-Mon. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Shaping Biomedical Research, Bethesda, Maryland. Information: Mark Brown, MasiMax Resources, 1375 Piccard Drive, Suite 360, Rockville, MD 20850 USA, 240-632-5618, fax: 240-632-0519, e-mail: mbrown@masimax.com

29-30 June, Thu-Fri. Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, and Developmental Toxicology in the 21st Century, Palm Beach, Florida. Information: Philip E. Mirkes, Department of Pediatrics, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195 USA, e-mail: pemst@u.washington.edu, Internet: http://teratology.org/00genomics.html

July

4-6 July, Tue-Thu. URBAN 21: Global Conference on the Urban Future, Berlin, Germany. Information: Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Am Michaelshof 8, D-53177 Bonn, Germany, fax: +49-22-8826315, e-mail: info@urban21.de, Internet: http://www.urban21.de/

8-13 July, Sat-Thu. 6th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms, Saskatoon, Canada. Information: College of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan, 2D30-51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon SK S7N 5A8, Canada, 306-966-7881, fax: 306-966-8894, Internet: http://www.ag.usask.ca/

10-14 July, Mon-Fri. MDO 2000: 13th International Symposium on Microsomes and Drug Oxidations, Stresa, Italy. Information: M. Di Paolo, c/o M.A.F. Servizi, Via G. B. Vico 7, 10128-Torino TO, Italy, fax: +39-0-1150-5976, e-mail: mdipaolo@mafservizi.it

10-14 July, Mon-Fri. 4th International Scientific Conference on Occupational Hygiene: Occupational Hygiene in Developing Countries, Cairns, Australia. Information: Cheryle Clynes, Australian Institute of Occupational Hygiene Administrator, Cairns 2000, PO Box 1205, Tullamarine VIC 3043, Australia, +61-3-9335-2577, fax: +61-3-9335-3454, e-mail: aiohcc@ibm.net

16-19 July, Sun-Wed. International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases 2000, Atlanta, Georgia. Information: D. Peter Drotman, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop A12, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333 USA, 404-639-4018, e-mail: dpd1@cdc.gov

16-20 July, Sun-Thu. Beyond the Genome: Understanding and Exploiting Molecules and Cells in the Third Millennium, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Information: Congress Secretariat, Biochemical Society, 59 Portland Place, London, W1N 3AJ, United Kingdom, +44-1-715-803-481, fax: +44-1-716-377-626, e-mail: info@iubmb2000.org

17-19 July, Mon-Wed. Engineering Solutions to Indoor Air Quality Problems Symposium, Raleigh, North Carolina. Information: Michael C. Osborne, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MD-54, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 USA, 919-541-4113, fax: 919-541-2157, e-mail: osborne.michael@epa.gov

August

6-10 August, Sun-Thu. 11th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Chicago, Illinois. Information: Anne Jenkins, Conference Manager, 515 North State Street, Chicago, IL 60610 USA, 312-464-5159, fax: 312-464-4111, e-mail: 11thwctoh@ama-assn.org

20-25 August, Sun-Fri. 15th International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Cartagena, Colombia. Information: Felipe Guhl, Centro de Investigaciones en Parasitologia Tropical, Universidad de los Andes, Apartado Aereo 4976, Bogota, Colombia, +571-286-7593, fax: +571-284-1890, e-mail: fguhl@uniandes.edu.co

20-25 August, Sun-Fri. American Chemical Society 220th National Meeting, Washington, DC. 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

26-29 August, Sat-Tue. 9th International Conference on the Combined Effects of Environmental Factors, Savonlinna, Finland. Information: Olavi Manninen, Labour Protection Department, PO Box 2672, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland, +358-3-260-8820, fax: +358-3-260-8899, e-mail: olavi.manninen@tsp.stm.vn.fi

27 August-1 September, Sun-Fri. 26th International Congress on Occupational Health, Singapore. Information: ICOH 2000, Kent Ridge, PO Box 1076 Singapore 911103, Republic of Singapore, +65-874-4988, fax: +65-779-1489, e-mail: icoh2000@post1.com

September

2-8 September, Sat-Fri. 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling, Banff, Canada. Information: Bradley Parks, CIRES, University of Colorado, Campus Box 216, Boulder, CO 80309 USA, 303-497-6330, fax: 303-497-6513, e-mail: bparks@colorado.edu

3-8 September, Sun-Fri. Biotechnology 2000: 11th International Biotechnology Symposium and Exhibition, Berlin, Germany. Information: 11th IBS, Dechema e.V., Theodor-Heuss-Allee 25, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, +49-69-7564241, fax: +49-69-7564201, e-mail: info@dechema.de, Internet: http://www.dechema.de/

9-16 September, Sat-Sat. International Health Funds Convention, Cairns, Australia. Information: Ruth Lilian, ICMS Australasia, GPO Box 2609, Level 8, 2 Bridge Street, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia, +61-2-9241-1478, fax: +61-1-9251-3552, e-mail: reply@icmsaust.com.au

14-17 September, Thu-Sun. Annual Scientific Meeting of the North American Conference of Clinical Toxicology, Tucson, Arizona. Information: Contemporary Forums, 11900 Silvergate Drive, Dublin, CA 94568-2257 USA, 925-828-7100, fax: 925-828-2121, e-mail: nacct@cforums.com

18-19 September, Mon-Tue. 2000 Electronic Product Recovery and Recycling Conference, Washington, DC. Information: Environmental Health Center, 1025 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20036 USA, 202-293-2270, fax: 202-293-0032

23-26 September, Sat-Tue. 18th International Neurotoxicology Conference: Children's Health and the Environment 2000, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Information: Joan Cranmer, 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

25-28 September, Mon-Thu. Enviro-Pro Expo/ TECOMEX 2000, Mexico City, Mexico. Information: Susan Cantor, E. J. Krause & Associates, 6550 Rock Spring Drive, Suite 500, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA, 301-493-5500, fax: 301-493-5705, e-mail: cantor@ejkrause.com, Internet: http://www.ejkrause.com/

October

3-6 October, Tue-Fri. 3rd Asian Conference on Food Safety and Nutrition, Beijing, China. Information: Lili C. Merritt, International Life Sciences Institute, 1126 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-4810 USA, 202-659-0074, fax: 202-659-8654, e-mail: branch@ilsi.org

3-7 October, Tue-Sat. American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Information: ASHG, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 USA, 301-571-1825, fax: 301-530-7079, e-mail: mryan@genetics.faseb.org

7-10 October, Sat-Tue. International Symposium on Growth Hormone in Immune Reconstitution, St. Petersburg, Florida. Information: Leslie Nies, Serono Symposia USA, 100 Longwater Circle, Norwell, MA 02061 USA, 1-800-283-8088, fax: 781-982-9481

16-18 October, Mon-Wed. e.hormone 2000--Environmental Hormones: Past, Present, Future, New Orleans, Louisiana. Information: John McLachlan, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane University SL-3, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699 USA, 504-585-6910, e-mail: e.hormone@tulane.edu

16-19 October, Mon-Thu. 16th Annual International Conference on Contaminated Soils, Sediments, and Water, Amherst, Massachusetts. Information: Denise Leonard, Northeast Regional Environmental Health Center, N344 Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA, 413-545-1239, e-mail: dleonard@schoolph.umass.edu, Internet: http://www.aehs.com/ECC/echomepage2000.html

24-28 October, Tue-Sat. 10th Meeting of the North American International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, Indianapolis, Indiana. Information: Nancy Holahan, ISSX, PO Box 3, Cabin John, MD 20818 USA, 301-983-2434, fax: 301-983-5357, e-mail: nholahan@issx.org, Internet: http://www.issx.org/

26-27 October, Thu-Fri. Symposium on Isocyanates: Sampling, Analysis, and Health Effects, Orlando, Florida. Information: Irene D. DeGraff, Symposium Cochair, Supelco, Supelco Park, Bellefonte, PA 16823-0048 USA, 814-359-5724, fax: 814-359-3409, e-mail: idegraff@sial.com

29 October-3 November, Sun-Fri. ICE 2000: 11th International Congress of Endocrinology, Sydney, Australia. Information: Phil Peterson, ICMS Australasia, GPO Box 2609, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia, +61-2- 9241-1478, fax: +61-2-9251-3552

November

2-5 November, Thu-Sun. Impact of Biotechnology on Predictive Oncology and Therapy, Geneva, Switzerland. Information: International Society for Preventive Oncology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue North, Box 20, Worcester, MA 01655 USA, 508-856-1822, fax: 508-856-1824, e-mail: vienna2000@cancerprev.org, Internet: http://www.cancerprev.org/

5-8 November, Sun-Wed. American Association of Cereal Chemists Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri. Information: AACC, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121-2097 USA, 651-454-7250, fax: 651-454-0766, e-mail: aacc@scisoc.org

12-15 November, Sun-Wed. American College of Toxicology 21st Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. Information: Eva Gamzu Kagan, American College of Toxicology, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814 USA, 301-571-1852, fax: 301-571-1852, e-mail: ekagan@actox.org, Internet: http://actox.org/

23-24 November, Thu-Fri. 2nd European Conference on Paediatric Asthma, London, United Kingdom. Information: Castle House Medical Conferences, 3 Linden Close, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8HH, United Kingdom, +44-0-1892-539-606, fax: +44-0-1892-517-773, e-mail: asthma@castlehouse.co.uk

25-29 November, Sat-Wed. 4th World Stroke Congress, Melbourne, Australia. Information: Congress Secretariat, c/o ICMS, 84 Queensbridge Street, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia, +61-3-9682-0244, fax: +61-3-9682-0288, e-mail: stroke@icms.com.au

December

4-8 December, Mon-Fri. 2000 Contaminated Site Remediation Conference: From Source Zone to Ecosystems, Melbourne, Australia. Information: Convention Link, PO Box 257, South Perth WA 6951, Australia, +61-8-9450-1662, fax: +61-8-9450-2942, e-mail: convlink@wantree.com.au, Internet: http://www.clw.csiro.au/CGS/conf/2000CSRC/#invitation

9-13 December, Sat-Wed. American Society for Cell Biology 40th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Information: American Society for Cell Biology, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3992 USA, 301-530-7153, fax: 301-530-7139, e-mail: ascbinfo@ascb.org

13-16 December, Wed-Sat. Ground Water: A Transboundary, Strategic, and Geopolitical Resource, Las Vegas, Nevada. Information: Bob Masters, National Ground Water Association, 601 Dempsey Road, Westerville, OH 43081 USA, 1-800-551-7379, extension 527, fax: 614-898-7786, e-mail: rmaste@ngwa.org, Internet: http://www.ngwa.org/education/agwse2.html

18-20 December, Mon-Wed. BSPP Presidential Meeting 2000, Plant-Pathogen Interactions: Understanding Mechanisms of Resistance and Pathogenicity for Disease Control, Wye College, United Kingdom. Information: Mark J. Hocart, BSPP Programme Secretary, Plant Science Division, SAC, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, United Kingdom, +44-0-131-535-4082, fax: +44-0-131-667-2601, e-mail: m.hocart@ed.sac.ac.uk, Internet: http://www.bspp.org.uk/meetings/bspp2000/bspp2000.htm

2001

February

15-20 February, Thu-Tue. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, San Francisco, California. Information: AAAS Meetings Office, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA, 202-326-6450, fax: 202-289-4021, e-mail: confinfo@aaas.org, Internet: http://www.aaas.org/

28 February-3 March, Wed-Sat. 5th World Conference on Melanoma, Venice, Italy. Information: WHO Melanoma Programme Secretariat, c/o Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133-Milano MI, Italy, +39-2-2668-9991, fax: +39-2-2668-0636, e-mail: info@melanoma2001.org, Internet: http://www.melanoma2001.org/

March

24-28 March, Sat-Wed. 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, New Orleans, Louisiana. Information: Jeffrey M. Ruben, 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, Internet: http://www.aacr.org/

April

8-13 April, Sun-Fri. 13th International Conference on Antiviral Research, Seattle, Washington. Information: Kelley Gillespie, Courtesy Associates, 2000 L Street NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20036 USA, 202-331-2000, fax: 202-331-0111, e-mail: kgillesp@courtesyassoc.com

22-27 April, Sun-Fri. 11th World Congress of Food Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea. Information: Korean Society of Food Science and Technology, 635-4 Yeoksam-Dong, Kangnam-Ku, Seoul 135-703, Republic of Korea, e-mail: kosfost@mail.kosfost.or.kr, Internet: http://www.congress2001.or.kr/

May

26-30 May, Sat-Wed. 14th International Congress of Comparative Endocrinology, Naples, Italy. Information: Studiocongressi, Via S. Anna dei Lombardi 36, 80134-Napoli NA, Italy, +39-081-551-1668, fax: +39-081-552-8835, e-mail: studiocongressi@napoli.com, Internet: http://www.napoli.com/studiocongressi/

27-31 May, Sun-Thu. 7th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria. Information: CISTM7 Conference and Exhibit Secretariat, Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Section of International Health, Gorgenstrasse 5, D-80799 Munich, Germany, +49-89-2180-3830, fax: +49-89-33-6038, e-mail: istm_eura@csi.com, Internet: http://www.istm.org/istm_c7.html

28 May-3 June, Mon-Sun. Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge II: An Exploration of Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples, Conservation, Development, and Ethnosciences for the New Millennium, Honolulu, Hawaii. Information: Alexandra Paul, Building Bridges Conference, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822-2279 USA, fax: 808-956-3923, e-mail: apaul@traditionalknowledge.com, Internet: http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/buildingbridgessummit/index.html