NEWS

THE lOTH WORLD CONGRESS FOR BUIATRICS, MEXICO, 1978 Improvement of a i l k and beef production in the tropics:

Preventive medicine, direct and indirect influences of climate, genetic improvement, utilization of tropical feeding resources, production systems and management practices.

Nutrition: Protein and energy sources (including non-protein nitrogen), biological value and utilization of forages, use of in- dustrial by-products and animal waste for ruminants, mineral and vitamin requirements and supplementation, physiological and metabolic aspects of nutrition.

Address of’ the Organizing Commirtees: X Congress0 Mun- dial de Buiairia, Morelos 20. Desp. 707, Mexico I , D.F. from whom further details can be obtained.

The 10th Congress of the World Association for Buiatrics will be held in Mexico from 16-19 August 1978. The program includes:

Reproduction: Biology (Genetics and Endocrinology), disorders, artificial insemination, influence of nutrition, estrous cycle control, embryo transfer.

Problems of dairy cartle production: Enteric and respiratory diseases in young cattle, advances in the therapy of new-born enteritis, metabolic diseases in intensive calf rearing, dairy cattle management (housing, genetic improvement, manure management).

Masfitis: Role of milking machines, teat dipping; clinics, treatment and prevention of mastitis, control programs.

SYMPOSIUM ON THE USE OF ALTERNATIVES IN THE DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF THERAPEUTIC PRODUCIS

A Symposium dealing with the use of alternatives in the Discovery, Development and Testing of Therapeutic Products will be held at the Royal Society, London, on 1 1 and 12 April 1978. natives.

The speabers at this Symposium will discuss methods which could replace or reduce the demand for laboratory animals in the discovery and development of pharmaceutical products.

1 he program will be of particular interest to pharmacologists and toxicologists who are concerned with the limitations in the use, of animals for this purpose and who are seeking alter-

Further information and registration forms may be obtained from Dr A. Rowan, C/- Fund for Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME), 312a Worple Road, London SW20 8QU.

WORKSHOP ON SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IN REPRODUCTION A workshop on Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) in

Reproduction will take place on 21 April 1978, at Los Angeles. Papers will discuss studies of reproductive tract and gamete morphology and physiology relating to fertility and infertility, with a special emphasis on potential applications in both clinical and experimental fields, and on correlation with con- ventional methods of observation. The workshop is being organized by Professor E. M . Eddy, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, and Dr K . G. Gould, Yerkes Primate Center, Atlanta. Georgia.

This workshop will consist of one or more general sessions

and several parallel sessions on: diagnostic applications; medical microbiology; blood, vascular systems and related prostheses; pulmonary, digestive and renal systems; reproduc- tion; early embryogeneses; sensory organs; brain ventricular surfaces; and dentistry. The annual SEM Symposium, several other workshops and tutorials, and an equipment exhibition will also take place during the same week at the Bonaventure Hotel. Los Angeles, California.

For more information contact Dr Om Johari, 14208 Volid Drive, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, 60194, United States of America.

CSlRO SPECIFIC PATHOGEN FREE POULTRY UNIT LABORATORY OFFICIALLY OPENED

A neu CSlKO research laboraiory. the Specific Pathogen staft and running costs will be met by CSIRO. Free Poultry Unit, part of CSIRO’b Division of Animal Health The unit has a two-fold role, as a centre for poultry disease at Maribyrnong, Victoria, was officially opened on 21 October research, and as a national reserve and repository for specific by the Member for Mallee, Mr P. Fisher, representing Senator pathogen free poultry. Fertile eggs from this reserve will be Webster. available to vaccine manufacturers, State Departments of

The unit cost $930.000 to build and equip and more than Agriculture, universities and other groups to allow them to $195,000 of this was contributed by the poultry industry. Basic establish and enlarge their own pathogen free flocks.

THE WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL TRUST- APPLICATIONS FOR CHXJRCHILL FELLOWSHIPS The Churchill Trust administers a Capital Fund of over Trust, Churchill Fellowships are available for overseas study

$4,500,000 which was subscribed by all sections of the projects, including study within Australia by -ressents of Australian community. The nett annual income from the Australian External Territories. They are open to Australians Capital Fund is applied each year to providing “Churchill in all walks of life and there are no prescribed qualifications, Fellowships”. With careful investment, it has been possible academic or otherwise. Merit is the primary test, whether based during the first 12 years of operation of the Trust to award up on past achievement or demonstrated ability for future to 60 Fellowships each year. Under the terms of the Memorial achievement. The value of an applicant’s work to the com-

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munity and the extent to which it will be enhanced by the appli- cant’s overseas study project are important criteria taken into account in selecting Churchill Fellows.

Churchill Fellows are awarded a return economy-class overseas air-ticket and an Overseas Living Allowance to enable them to undertake their approved overseas study project. In special cases they may also be awarded supplementary allowances including a Dependants’ Allowance.

The Churchill Trust is now calling for applications from Australians, of 18 years and over, from all walks of life who wish to be considered for Churchill Fellowships tenable in 1979.

Completed application forms and reports from three referees must reach the Churchill Trust by 28 February 1978.

People wishing to be considered for a Churchill Fellowship should send their name and address now with the requests for a copy of the Churchill Trust’s Information Brochure and ap- plication forms to:

The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (M) P.O. Box 478, Canberra City, Australian Capital Territory

or, for residents in South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory, the appropriate ad- dress is:

G.P.O. Box 498, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001; G.P.O. Box 6209, Perth, Western Australia, 6001; G.P.O. Box 1260N. Hobart, Tasmania, 7001; G.P.O. Box 2147, Darwin, Northern Territory, 5794.

THE 1977 DR BART RISPENS MEMORIAL AWARD RECEIVED BY DR A. W. JACKSON The first Dr Bart Rispens Memorial Award was presented to

Dr A. W. Jackson of Sydney, New South Wales. The presenta- tion was made at the Sixth International Congress of the World Veterinary Poultry Association Meeting this year with the American Veterinary Medical Association at its 114th session in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, from 11-15 Ju- ly. The selection of Dr Jackson as the 1977 Winner of the

for his excellent work on leukosis and Marek’s disease. He often visited England and the United States spending one year at the US Poultry Disease Research Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. He is particularly remembered for his kind- ness and enthusiasm and for developing the NP test, the CVI 988 strain of Marek’s disease vaccine, and research on eradication control of leukosis.

award was based on the excellence of his paper entitled: “The epizootology of Marek’s Disease. 3. The interrelationship of virus pathogenicity antibody and the incidence of Marek’s disease”, published in Avian Parhology (1976), 5: 105-123, of research conducted while on secondment at the Houghton Poultry Research Laboratory, Houghton, United Kingdom.

The award was made possible by the generosity of many in- dividuals, pharmaceutical companies of the world, Dutch poultry organizations, and the Department of Agriculture of The Netherlands. The contributions were combined to establish a fund to perpetuate the memory of Dr Bart Rispens.

Dr Rispens was the late senior research officer of the Avian Leukosis Unit, Central Veterinary Institute, The Netherlands, and was well known in the Netherlands and around the world

The award is administered jointly by the Board of Trustees of the Fund and the Bureau of the World Veterinary Poultry Association through an award committee. I t consists of an in- scribed medallion, a certificate, and 2,500 Dutch guilders, and is presented every 2 years far the best scientific paper(s) published in the preceding 2 years in Avian Parhology.

Dr Jackson received the B.V.Sc. degree from the University of Sydney in 1964. For two years he was a Veterinary Officer for Poultry Disease Control, Department of Agriculture, in New South Wales. During 1966-69, he served as Veterinary Research Officer at the Department of Agriculture Veterinary Research Station, Glenfield, N.S. W., and currently, he heads the Poultry Section of the Glenfield Station.

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