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We are pleased to announce Vibrios in the Environment 2010, a conference to
be held at the fabulous Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi, in the
heart of the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Please save the dates of 8-12 November 2010.

In 1980, leading vibrio researchers working in the area of microbial ecology
and public health met in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to convene a unique
conference entitled “Vibrios in the Environment.”  The proceedings were
published by John Wiley and Sons Inc., in 1984, and firmly established that
a number of human pathogenic Vibrio spp. including V. cholerae, V.
parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus were indigenous to marine and estuarine
environments where much of the seafood supply is produced and where most
recreational exposure occurs. In the following 30 years, vibrio research has
increased exponentially and these organisms have often been at the forefront
of basic scientific discoveries and the global public health debate. Some
prominent issues initiated by vibrio research include discoveries on the
viable but nonculturable state, transfer of virulence genes by phages,
identification of ballast discharge as vehicle for pandemic spread, and
climate change resulting in an expansion of the seasonal and geographical
range of diseases.  In spite of this increased attention on vibrios and the
spectacular discoveries over the past several decades, there has not been
another major conference focusing on vibrios in the environment or their
implications on public health, especially food safety. There is
unprecedented activity in the US and globally to control the risk of vibrios
and yet in most countries illnesses are either flat or increasing.
Furthermore, the vibrios are still regarded by most marine microbiologists
as the dominant culturable bacteria in the ocean and there is good reason to
believe that global warming may increase their presence. The science has
repeatedly demonstrated that vibrios present public health challenges that
were not imagined in 1980.

Therefore, after three decades, revisiting the critical public health issues
presented by vibrios, especially food safety, globalization and climate
change is long overdue and we look forward to seeing you a year from now in
Biloxi at Vibrios in the Environment 2010.

Proposed Session Headings:
•    Ecology of Vibrios
•    Human Disease
•    Non-human Disease
•    Integrated coastal water quality and seafood safety management
•    Epidemiology and Socioeconomics

We will soon open a website with more details and plan to have a portal
where you can contribute ideas and suggestions.

Please feel free to pass this announcement on to your vibrio associates not
included on this announcement as well as to others who may be interested in
the conference.

Please contact Brian Jackson at UCAR (bjackson at ucar.edu) or the steering
committee members if you are interested in further information as it becomes
available, would like to present your ideas, or be added to our Vibrios in
the Environment 2010 email listserve.



Vibrios in the Environment 2010 Steering Committee
Dr. Rita R. Colwell, University of Maryland, United States,
rcolwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Dr. Angelo DePaola, US Food and Drug Administration,
angelo.depaola at fda.hhs.gov
Dr. D. Jay Grimes, University of Southern Mississippi, United States,
jay.grimes at usm.edu
Dr. Carmen Amaro, University of Valencia, Spain, carmen.amaro at uv.es
Dr. Murielle Lafaye, CNES, France, murielle.lafaye at cnes.fr
Dr. G. Balakrish (“Krish”) Nair, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric
Diseases, India,
     gbnair_2000 at yahoo.com
Dr. Mitsuaki (“Buchi”) Nishibuchi, Kyoto University,  Japan,
nisibuti at cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Dr. James D. Oliver, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States,
jdoliver at uncc.edu
Dr. Carla Pruzzo, University of Genoa, Italy, carla.pruzzo at unige.it
Dr. Joon Haeng Rhee, Chonnam National University, Korea,
jhrhee at chonnam.chonnam.ac.kr
Dr. Irma N. G. Rivera, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, igrivera at usp.br
Dr. Mark S. Strom, NOAA Fisheries, Washington State, United States,
mark.strom at noaa.gov
Dr. Jörg Szarzynski, United Nations, Germany, joerg.szarzynski at unoosa.org
Dr. Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Washington, D.C., United States, juli.trtanj at noaa.gov
Dr. Anita C. Wright, University of Florida, United States, acw at ufl.edu


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