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16TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MYCOPLASMOLOGY (IOM)

St 's College Cambridge, UK - July 9-14, 2006

http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/vla/aboutus/aboutus-iom-page1.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS - The scientific content of the congress is largely

driven by the submitted abstracts, which will be selected for oral or

poster presentation. Abstract submission will be on-line through the

IOM website and will open in September 2005. Details of how to submit

abstracts will be available then. The abstract will be withdrawn if

the author does not register by 27 March 2006. Please note that at

least one of the authors of the submitted abstract must attend the

congress.

CONTACTS - For all queries please contact:

Event Organisation Unit, VLA Weybridge,

Woodham Lane, Addlestone,

Surrey, UK KT15 3NB

Tel: +44 (0) 1932 357234

Fax: +44 (0) 1932 357701

E-mail: IOM2006@...

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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

SUNDAY 9TH

AM Closed meeting: Taxonomy committee

PM Closed meetings: Taxonomy committee, IOM Old Board Meeting, IRPCM

Executive meeting

Eve Reception sponsored by Mycoplasma Experience

MONDAY 10TH

AM Opening

Symposium 1: Exploiting Genomic Data

Keynote Speaker

PM Seminar 1: Molecular

IRPCM

Poster session

Eve Dinner

TUESDAY 11TH

AM Symposium 2: Mollicutes - News from the field

Keynote Speaker

Haemoplasma

Seminar 2: Spiroplasmas

PM Seminar 3: Ruminant

IRPCM

Eve Dinner

WEDNESDAY 12TH

AM Seminar 4: Chemotherapy and Vaccines

Seminar 5: Avian

PM Seminar 6: Taxonomy

IRPCM

Trade Stands/ Cambridge Tour

Eve Free Evening

THURSDAY 13TH

AM Symposium 3: Coping with the environment

Keynote Speaker

Seminar 7: Porcine

Seminar 8: Clinical

PM Clincial (cont)

IRPCM

Seminar 9: Haemoplasma

Poster Session

Eve Congress Dinner

FRIDAY 14TH

AM Prize Posters

Award Lecture

Open meetings: Taxonomy, IRPCM and IOM

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CONGRESS HISTORY

The International Organisation for Mycoplasmology (IOM) was founded

in 1976 as a non-profit organisation. It exists to promote

international study of mycoplasmas (Mollicutes) and mycoplasmal

diseases and to spread knowledge about characteristics, effects,

transmission, and control.

PREVIOUS IOM CONGRESSES

I. Glasgow, Scotland (September 1976)

2. Freiburg, Germany (August 1978)

3. Custer, South Dakota, USA (September 3-9, 1980)

4. Tokyo, Japan (September 1-7 1982)

5. Jerusalem, Israel (June 24-29, 1984)

6. Birmingham, Alabama (August 26-30, 1986)

7. Baden (near Vienna), Austria (June 2-9, 1988)

8. Istanbul, Turkey (July 8-12, 1990)

9. Ames, Iowa (August 2-7, 1992)

10. Bordeaux, France (July 19-26, 1994)

11. Orlando, Florida (July 14-19, 1996)

12. Sydney, Australia (July 23-29, 1998)

13. Fukuoka, Japan (July 14-19, 2000)

14. Vienna, Austria (July 7-12, 2002)

15. Athens, Georgia (July, 11-16, 2004)

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HISTORICAL NOTE: http://www.uab.edu/historical/mc063.htm

" ...The International Organization for Mycoplasmology was established

in late 1974. The field of mycoplasmology began in 1898 when French

scientists E. Nocard and E. R. Roux discovered that a small bacterium

caused infectious pleuropneumonia of cattle. As the twentieth century

progressed more researchers studied this group of microbes known

as " pleuropneumonia-like organisms, " or " PPLO. " The 1972 Ciba

Foundation " Symposium on Pathogenic Mycoplasmas " for researchers

interested in human, animal, plant, and insect mollicute diseases

inspired international collaboration in mycoplasmology. In 1974, the

University of Bordeaux II and the Institut Nationale Recherche

Agronomique (INRA) in France sponsored the larger " Symposium on

Pathogenic Mycoplasmas of Man, Animals, Plants, and Insects " in

Bordeaux. After this symposium a group of participants met and

planned committees to organize a new organization for

mycoplasmologists. During the fall of 1974 the new International

Organization for Mycoplasmology (IOM) accepted membership fees. The

IOM in September of 1976 held its first international congress in

Glasgow, Scotland, in conjunction with a meeting of the British

Society for General Microbiology. In 1978, the IOM held its first

autonomous international congress in Freiburg, Germany; since that

date, biennial congresses have taken place in cities throughout the

world. That same year the IOM took over sponsorship of the already

established Program on Comparative Mycoplasmology, calling it the

International Research Program on Comparative Mycoplasmology (IRPCM).

In 1979, in conjunction with the University of Bordeaux II and the

Institut Recherche Agronomique, the IOM held the first of a series of

Mycoplasma Techniques Courses in Bordeaux, France. In honor of past

members and significant contributors to the field of mycoplasmology,

the IOM established four awards to recognize outstanding achievement

in mycoplasmology: The Louis Dienes Award; The Derrick Award;

The Emmy Kleineberger-Nobel Award; and The Harry Morton Student

Award. The IOM continues to stimulate interest and provide

international collaboration and research in the field of

mycoplasmology. ... "

Copyright 1999, The University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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