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Listed are the news related to Brucella research and development. Please submit your news to us and we will have it posted here. Thank you.

  • 12/2-3/2017: Brucellosis 2017 (70th) International Research Conference meeting held on December 2-3, 2017, at Marriot Ballroom, in Chicago.
  • 7/21/2016: More information about Brucellosis 2016 from Ms. Sue Hagius:
    • Registration: 20 May, 2016 onwards
    • Last date for abstract submission extended to: 15 August, 2016
    • Booking of accommodation before: 30 August, 2016
      Cancellation: 15 October, 2016
  • 6/27/2016:Brucellosis 2016 (69th) International Research Conference meeting announcement by Ms. Sue Hagius:
    • Meeting website: http://www.dbtbrucellosis.in/brucellosis2016/
    • Meeting venue: New Delhi, India
    • Meeting time: November 17-19, 2016.
    • VISA: International participants require “Conference Visa” to attend the conference. You will need to submit an invitation letter along with the visa application. An invitation letter from the local organizing committee chairs will be sent via email to everyone who has either registered or submitted an abstract to present at the conference. If you have not yet registered but plan to attend the conference, please send your email and institutional affiliation information to Ramesh (rvemulap@purdue.edu), and he will arrange for the invitation letter to be sent to you right away.
    • Flying to New Delhi: Indira Gandhi International Airport (Code: DEL) is the main airport in New Delhi. Plane fares are generally cheaper during November (at this time, a roundtrip ticket from many cities in the US to New Delhi is less than $1000).
  • 9/3/2015: Brucellosis 2015 (68th) International Research Conference meeting announcement: Sue Hagius made a few announcements:
    • Please find the meeting announcement with the links for your hotel reservation as well as the links to an online registration service. 
    • Check out the instructions for the RegOnline process.  "Should you wish to use a credit card for your registration, you must use this online site; and there will be an additional charge added to your registration fee by the service.  "
    • On-site registration will also be conducted prior to the meeting opening on Saturday morning, but NO credit cards will be accepted -only cash or checks.
    • "I hope that many of you will be able to join us in Chicago, December 5-6, 2015.  I encourage you to also consider attending CRWAD if your budget and schedule permits.  Please share this email with your colleagues who may not be on the Bruce List. " - by Sue.
  • 9/2/2015: Sue Hagius posted a flyer for the PATRIC workshop following this year's Brucellosis Conference. Also, major points for the Brucellosis-2015 meeting:
    • Meeting dates- December 5-6, 2015; 8 am to 5pm each day
    • Hotel reservations - Make your Chicago Marriott, Downtown Magnificent Mile reservations prior to November 11, 2015, to receive the discounted CRWAD rate ($182 plus tax for single or double occupancy/$132 federal government rate).  You may call them Toll–Free: 1-877-303-0104 or 1-866-596-7456 for international calls (request the CRWAD RATE) or make your reservations online at the link on the CRWAD web site (this custom web link has the correct code already filled in). You will need a credit card number for confirmation.
    • Titles and abstracts due by October 16, 2015 - send to shagius@agcenter.lsu.edu
  • 8/23/2015: The deadline for submitting poster and oral presentation abstracts for the 96th Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD). CRWAD will be held on December 7-9, 2015 Marriott Downtown on the Magnificent Mile, Chicago, IL. This year's Brucellosis conference will be held as a CRWAD satellite meeting on Dec 5 (Saturday) to Dec 6 (Sunday) on the Salon A/B/C/D on the fifth floor of the same hotel.
  • 5/15/2014: For this year's Brucellosis conference (http://www.bfr.bund.de/en/brucellosis_2014.html):
    • Abstracts submission closing: 30 May 2014;
    • End of early registrations: 30 June 2014;
    • End of online registration: 31 August 2014 (on-site registration will be possible);
    • Hotel reservation deadlines: 9 May - 29 July 2014.
    • Brucellosis 2014 International Research Conference: 9 - 12 September 2014.
    • Conference Venue: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, BfR) in Marienfelde which is located in the south of Berlin.
  • 3/11/2014: Ready for registration for the Brucellosis 2014 International Research Conference. For more information please visit the conference website at: http://www.bfr.bund.de/en/brucellosis_2014.html. The deadline for abstract submissions is May 30.
  • 11/8/2013: Cut-off hotel reservation date extended to Nov 30, for hotel group rate room reservations for CRWAD and Brucellosis meeting. Marriott Room Reservations link is found on the CRWAD Home Page in the “Quick Links” list: http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/mip/crwad/. See the meeting related information and Ms. Sue Hagius's announcements below.
  • 7/31/2013: Brucellosis 2013 (66th) International Research Conference: The 66th Annual Brucellosis Research Conference will be held December 7-8 at the Chicago Marriott, Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois. The deadline of abstract submissions is: October 25, 2013. Hotel reservation deadline is Nov 8, 2013 (use the CRWAD hotel sleeping room information website to get the discounted rate). Ms. Sue Hagius provided the two documents: BRC 2013 Meeting Announcement, and RegOnline Instruction.
  • 9/6/2012: Brucellosis 2012 (65th) International Research Conference: The 65th Annual Brucellosis Research Conference will be held December 1-2 at the Chicago Marriott, Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will begin Saturday, December 1, at 8:00 am and conclude with the business meeting Sunday, December 2, at 5pm. Please check out more information from Ms. Sue Hagius's email and the meeting announcement Sue provided.
  • 8/3/2012: Ms. Sue Hagius provided the following information: If you plan to attend CRWAD 2012 after our brucellosis meeting on December 1 and 2, 2012, you may need the deadlines.  Remember our registration is separate from theirs and will be in the morning before the meeting begins. The hotel reservation link which you should use is also listed.  
  • Brucellosis 2011 (64th) International Research Conference: will be held on September 21-23, 2011, at UCA Auditorium, Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Agentina. The abstract submission deadline is May 28, 2011.
  • Brucellosis 2010 (63rd) International Research Conference: was held on December 4-5, 2010, Chicago Marriott, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 09/21/2009: 62th Annual Brucellosis Research Conference (BRC 2009): the meeting will be held December 5-6 at the Chicago Marriott, Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will begin Saturday at 8:00 am and conclude with the business meeting Sunday at noon. the deadline for submitting a title/abstract is Friday, October 23, 2009. Please check Ms. Sue Hagius' email about the news. Sue also sent the detailed meeting announcement and abstract guidelines can be found here: HTML version, or Word version.
  • 03/16/2009: 20 More Brucella Strains have been sequenced by Broad Institute. The sequences have been assembled and annotated. The collaborators for this project include Drs. David O'Callaghan (France), Adrian Whatmore (UK), and Renee Tsolis (USA).
  • 09/10-13/2008: Brucellosis 2008 International Conference, London, UK.
  • 06/16/08: Important International Brucellosis meeting dates and CRWAD information in Word or HTML format. The website for the Brucella 2008 International Conference (Including the 61th Brucellosis Research Conference) is here: http://www.defra.gov.uk/vla/news/new_conf_bruc.htm. The deadline of submitting abstract is June 27th (Friday), 2008.
  • 10/1/07: Announcement about Brucellosis 2008 International Research Conference in Word or HTML format (from Dr. Adrian Whatmore).
  • 10/1/07: Sue emailed the 2007 BRC abstract instructions, in Word or HTML format.
  • 8/30/07: Sue emailed the 2007 Brucellosis Conference announcement, in Word or HTML format.
  • 8/15/07: Many Brucella vaccines have been manually curated and available now in VIOLIN (violinet.org).
  • 7/30/07: PHIDIAS (phidias.us), a web-based pathogen-host interaction data integration and analysis system, is published in Genome Biology. PHIDIAS allows genome and motif comparisons between Brucella and other bacteria.
  • 7/30/07: Sue's email about 2007 Brucellosis Conference. It has information related to the Chicago Marriott Hotel room reservation.
  • 6/15/07: The 2007 Annual Brucellosis Conference will be held December 1-2 in conjunction with CRWAD in Chicago. See Sue's email. The deadline for submitting CRWAD abstract is Sept 7, 2007. Please pre-register for CRWAD by Nov 20.
  • 12/06/06: The 59th Brucella meeting proceeding is available in HTML and Word format.
  • 10/23/06: Brucella meeting updates in HTML or Word format from Ms. Sue Hagius.
  • 8/14/06: This year's Brucella meeting announcement was just released by Ms. Sue Hagius. The deadline for submitting a title to Sue is Monday, October 30, 2006. Here is Sue's email, and here is the announcement in HTML or Word format.
  • 7/16/06: The BBP paper is published in BMC Bioinformatics. See abstract from PubMed in Here, or from the journal site in Here. Also check the provisional PDF document.
  • 7/13/06: The 2006 CRWAD Meeting will be held December 3- 5, at the Chicago Marriott, Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois. The deadline for electronic abstract submission is September 8, 2006. Please make your reservations by Nov. 1. The 2006 Brucella Research Conference will be Dec 2-3 as a CRWAD satellite meeting.
  • 7/11/06: The International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) will be organizing a meeting on human brucellosis in Ioannina Greece in November 2006. Further information can be sought on http://www.brucellosismeeting.gr. All world specialists on human brucellosis will be there, aiming at reaching a consensus on aspects of diagnosis, treatment, and future prospects for human brucellosis research.
  • 3/10/06: The 2006 Brucella Research Conference will be held in conjunction with CRWAD in Chicago at the downtown Marriot. Our meeting will be December 2-3; theirs December 3-5. When you make your room reservation make sure you tell them you are part of CRWAD because that helps get the meeting rooms cheaper. The CRWAD conference information is available at: http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/microbiology/crwad/index.htm.
  • 2/15/06: A new BBP version was announced to the Brucella research community. A lot of changes and updates have been made on BBP since Dr. Yongqun He joined the University of Michigan on July 1, 2005.
  • 4/4, 2005: The paper on the recently sequenced genome of B. abortus field strain 9-941 was just published: "Completion of the Genome Sequence of Brucella abortus and Comparison to the highly similar genomes of Brucella melitensis and Brucella suis. Shirley M. Halling, Brooke D. Peterson-Burch, Betsy J. Bricker, Richard L. Zuerner, Zhang Qing, Ling-Ling Li, Vivek Kapur, David P. Alt, and Steven C. Olsen. J. Bacteriol. 2005;187 2715-2726." URL: http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/187/8/2715?etoc.
  • 2/15, 2005: The new book 'Brucella: molecular and cellular biology' that has been recently published by Horizon Scientific Press. For more information: http://www.horizonpress.com/hsp/fnew.html.
  • 1/27, 2005: Note: the Brucella community listserv email address has changed. Please subscribe the new listserv on line: https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/bruce.
  • 1/10, 2005: The abstracts of the 2004 Brucellosis Research Conference have been provided by Sue Hagius (Thanks!) at LSU and are available now. Please see our Publications page.
  • 11/13-11/14, 2004: The 2004 Brucellosis Research Conference was held on November 13-14, 2004 in Chicago at the Congress Hotel. The detailed meeting information will be posted later.
  • 09/06/2004: Dr. Ignacio Lopez-Goni kindly provided the Proceedings of the Brucellosis 2003 International Research Conference and a summary to BBP. Please see our Publications page.
  • 09/04/2004: Announced the BBP website to the Brucella email listserv.
  • 08/03/2004: The 2004 Brucellosis Research Conference will be held November 13-14 in Chicago at the Congress Hotel. The conference is being held under the auspices of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Disease (CRWAD) group. Hotel reservations should be made prior to October 1 to secure a room. The 2004 CRWAD meeting information is accessible at: http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/microbiology/crwad/index.htm.
  • 07/26/2004: BBP is set up with the current URL.
  • 07/09/2004: VBI and its partners have been awarded a 5-year, $10.3 million contract from NIH-NIAID to establish a national Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) that consists of a multi-organism relational database in support of infectious disease research. Brucella is one of the targeted pathogens. Dr. Stephen Boyle from Virginia Tech is a participant of the BRC and will be involved in Brucella data annotation. Please see the press release from here. The VBI BRC website is: http://brc.vbi.vt.edu.