This page features articles and information that appeared on the main web site pages previously.

The complete list of attendees to the Fourth International Symbiosis Congress in Halifax last August can now be accessed. This alphabetical listing includes the institutional address, phone, and e-mail, albeit the latter may not always be the current correct one. The listing can be accessed by clicking here.

Birgitta Bergman calls our attention to a new faculty position on plant-microbe interactions open at Stockholm University, Sweden. Please access the full details by clicking here as well as accessing http://www.su.se.

Takema Fukatsu, (t-fukatsu@aist.go.jp, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) calls our attention to an upcoming publication of his and his team's important work indicating gene transfer events: "Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: A facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid" by R. Koga, T. Tsuschida, and T. Fukatsu (2003). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 272: in press. For a view of the cover which features the research and a summary, access the Proceedings at http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/.
Published last year and accessible now is "Genome fragment of Wolbachia endosymbiont transferred to X chromosome of host insect" by N. Kondo, N. Nikoh N., N. Ijichi N. M. Shimada M., T. Fukatsu (2002) PNAS 99: 14280-14285.

Mycorrhizas: Anatomy and Cell Biology (softcover, $69.95) by R. L. Peterson, H.B. Massicotte, and L.H. Melville is now available from National Research Council Press, Canada. Check out http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca