Fifth Joint Meeting of the Histochemicai Society and the Japan Society for Histochemistry & Cytochemistry

The Fifth Joint Meeting of the Japan Society for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry and the Histochemicai Society will be held July 23-26, 1998, on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California. The program will include symposia, workshops, plenary lectures and poster sessions.

Planned Symposia and Mini-Workshops

Regulation of Endocrine Function

Organized by Akira Kawaoi and Ricardo Lloyd

Enzyme Histochemistry

Organized by Takuma Saito and John Robinson

Hybridohistochemistry including South-Western Histochemistry

Organized by Paul Nakane

Histochemistry of Glycoconjugates

Organized by Hiroshi Hirano and Shiro Nozawa

Diagnostic Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Organized by Yoshiyuki Osamura and Hiroshi Nagura

Histochemistry and Neuroscience

Organized by Yasuhiko Ibata, Makio Kobayashi, and Mark Ellisman

FluoroNanogold Labeling for Correlative Microscopy

Sponsored by Nanoprobes, Inc. Organized by James Hainfeld and Richard Burry

Three-Dimensional Microscopy

Sponsored by Edge Scientific Organized by Gary Greenberg and Chuck Hewitt

Antigen Retrieval Immunohistochemistry

Organized by Richard Cote, Shan-Rong Shi, and Allen Gown

Peroxisomes

Organized by Janardan Reddy and Skaidrite Krisans

Second Messengers: The Morphology of Intracellular Signaling

Organized by William Stahl and Keiichi Watanabe

In Situ Hybridization as a Tool for Studying the Subcellular Compartmentalization of mRNAs

Organized by Alain Trembleau

Presidential Symposium (Histochemical Society)

Prostate Cancer 1998: Practical Applications of Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Biology

Sponsored by Hybritech, Inc.

Organized by David Bostwick, Satoru Takahashi and Stephen Carmichael

Introduction and Overview: Stephen Carmichael (Mayo Clinic)

Immunohistochemistry: David Bostwick (Mayo Clinic)

Tumor Suppressor Genes: Robert Bookstein (Canji, Inc)

DNA Ploidy, RT-PCR (Molecular Staging): Ralph DeVere White (Univ. of California, Davis)

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH): Satoru Takahashi (Univ. of Tokyo)

Animal Models: Results of Purdue 1996 Meeting: David Waters (Purdue)

Workshop (Histochemical Society)

Merging Molecular Biology with Morphologic Techniques

Plenary Lecture

The Cytoskeleton: Presented by Tom Pollard

Intracellular Dyes: Presented by Roger Tsier

Welcome Reception

Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Banquet

Sea World

GOLF TOURNAMENT: “RESET YOUR CIRCADIAN CLOCK”

Registration Information

Visit our web page (http://www.hcs.microscopy.com) for program updates and registration information or contact the Histochemical Society business office at:

The Histochemical Society

Dr. W. L. Stahl, Executive Director

Department of Neurology

The Histochemical Society

e-mail: [e-mail]

Box 356465

University of Washington School of Medicine

Seattle, WA 98195

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Society for Histochemistry announces the Robert Feulgen Prize 1998 (DM 5000.00) to be awarded for an outstanding achievement in the field of histochemistry. The contributions may be either for the development of new histochemical and cytochemical techniques or for the application of existing technology in solving important problems in biology and/or medicine.

Addressed are scientists working in microscopical sciences (in the widest sense) as well as in biochemistry, cell biology, endocrinology, in situ molecular techniques and neurosciences. Scientists in their mid-careers (assistant or associate professor, priv. doz.) are encouraged to apply. The prize is not intended for lifetime contributions.

The applications should contain (in duplicate sets) a short curriculum vitae, a 1000 word summary of the contributions of the applicant and reprints of the pertinent publications.

All applications should be submitted before January 31, 1998 to:

Professor J. Roth, Secretary, Society for Histochemistry

Division of Cell and Molecular Pathology

Department of Pathology, University of Zürich

Schmelzbergstr. 12, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland

Tel. [phone]; Fax [phone]