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3rd Annual Progress Meeting - 22-28 March, 2008 - Monday, November 10, 2008

The project’s 3rd Annual Progress Meeting was held at Hanoi and Cat Ba Island in northern Vietnam (March 22-28, 2008), and participants combined this with a field visit to the project's field sites in Nha Trang in central Vietnam as well as NIHE (National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology) in Hanoi. There was plenty of discussion on the evaluation of progress, the logistics for the implementation of the next phase and restructuring and maximizing our efforts to achieve the goals of the project. Several invited delegates attended the meeting and we would like to thank them for their contributions; Trinh Quan Huan (Vice Minister of Health, Government of Vietnam), Nguyen Huy Nga (Director General Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, Government of Vietnam), Nguyen Tran Hien (Director, NIHE, Ministry of Health, Government of Vietnam), Stephanie James and Michael Gottlieb (both from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health).

Attendees of the Third Annual Progress Meeting.
NIHE (National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology) in Hanoi, Vietnam

2nd Annual Progress Meeting - Friday, January 19, 2007

The project’s 2nd annual progress meeting was held on Heron Island, Queensland, Australia (February 11-16, 2007). Several research groups demonstrated considerable progress on their outlined milestones. Several invited delegates attended the meeting and we would like to thank them for their contributions; Stephanie James (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health), Michael Gottlieb (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health), James Lavery, (University of Toronto), Steven Sinkins (Oxford University) and David Brown (University of California).

Attendees of the 2nd Annual Progress Meeting
Heron Is., Queensland, Australia (Image: P. E. Cook)

Nature research highlight - Friday, November 24, 2006

The recent publication of a novel transcriptional age-grading technique for mosquitoes by Cook, et al. (2006; PNAS, 103: 18060-5) was noted as a research highlight in Nature this week. [PDF]

1st Annual Progress Meeting - Tuesday, March 14, 2006

The first annual progress meeting was held in Pattaya, Chachoengsao, Thailand (March 4-10, 2006). The meeting commenced with project updates from each research group, followed by discussion on workplan revisions. The meeting involved a day trip to the nearby field site in Plaeng Yao sub-district. Prof. John Edman (UC Davis) attended the meeting as a contributing expert and his contributions were much appreciated.

Attendees of the 1st Annual Progress Meeting
Pattaya, Chacheongsao, Thailand (Image: P. E. Cook)