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Welcome to
Kinetoplastid Diseases 2008! | | |
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After a highly successful first event
in 2006,
we are proud to introduce Mangosteen's second
African Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis and Chagas'
Disease
meeting:
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE
WILL BE NEW DATES FOR THE MEETING.
IT IS NO LONGER SCHEDULED
FOR MAY 2008.
PLEASE CHECK THIS WEBSITE
FOR UPDATES
Kinetoplastid Diseases 2008
Kololi & Tendaba, The Gambia
Dates To Be Announced
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The Recent Past - Kinetoplastid Diseases 2006 | | |
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Sign Up to Participate in Kinetoplastid Diseases
2008 | | |
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Meeting Structure, Duration
and Venues | | |
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The
format of this uniquely structured meeting aims to be flexible enough
to suit the needs, interests and available time of all
participants.
The
programme will therefore be split into
2 distinct parts
as follows:
Part 1
Dates To Be Announced
Venue
– Paradise Suites Hotel, Kololi, Atlantic Coast,
The Gambia
Three
days of oral and
poster presentations, with a lot of time
built into the programme for small group and one to one
discussions.
With the meeting venue just a short walk
from
the
main site of the International Trypanotolerance Centre (www.itc.gm), the meeting programme will also
make time to visit the ITC to meet with staff members
and discuss ongoing projects.
If two or three days is
all the time you can afford to be away from work at home, then
participation in Part 1 will provide you with everything you
need from a strong small meeting programme.
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Part 2
Dates To Be Announced
Venue
– Tendaba Camp
and Conference Facility,
Tendaba, The Gambia
A
two day symposium/retreat in Senegal's sister
nation of The Gambia - taking advantage of the
tranquillity
and natural beauty of the rural riverside location of Tendaba in the centre of
the country - the perfect setting and
atmosphere for flexible and relaxed discussions.
Plenty of time will also be available for participants
to take in some of the fantastic scenery, flora and
fauna of the area, on foot or by boat.
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Some of the details may change. The
organizer reserves the right to make essential changes without
notice between now and the starting date of the conference to better suit
the final programme and the interests of confirmed participants.
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Anticipated Costs Incurred During the Meeting | | |
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Who is This Meeting Targeted Towards? | | |
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Scientists, clinical researchers, students and others
actively engaged in, or with a strong interest in, human
and/or animal kinetoplastid disease research.
The scope of the meeting aims to be intentionally broad
- covering and comparing all three 'Tryp' diseases -
Leishmaniasis, African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping
Sickness) and American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas'
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Meeting Objectives | | |
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Other meeting organizers may offer a lengthy list of
specific objectives that they want to see their
conferences accomplish.
Mangosteen’s objectives for this meeting are
intentionally somewhat broader and less specific:
To create a true forum for open interdisciplinary
discussion in kinetoplastid and kinetoplastid disease
research.
To help encourage members of the research
community, from both the developed and developing
worlds, to get talking, thinking and ultimately
collaborating.
The results and successes of this meeting are not in
the hands of the organizer, but are very much in the
minds and the future work and
projects of the participants.
Another of Mangosteen’s objectives is not to require
participants to spend more of their valuable research
resources on attending this meeting than they absolutely
need to - talk is cheap, and
this will be a cost-effective meeting.
Past Participant Testimonials & Quotes
are Here
Recent Conference Photos are Here
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The Scientific Programme of a Meeting with a Difference | | |
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From the point of inception -
starting with the choice of location, venue and dates -
the meeting will be organized somewhat differently to
many conferences you may have participated in during
your career.
We start
not with a
list of invited speakers, but with a
flexible programme, containing a number of as yet
unclaimed oral presentation slots that will be filled in
the coming months by dedicated researchers in the field who sign up to participate and who
also demonstrate an interest in
presenting
work during the meeting.
This approach might seem to be
a little unorthodox - and perhaps it is - but it works!
It works extremely effectively in
creating an excellent atmosphere for constructive
scientific discussion and debate, and it serves to
provide the perfect breeding ground for the initiation
of a wide range of new relationships and collaborative
efforts.
If Mangosteen's approach has one
failing, it is only that more interested researchers
don't trust and believe that such a differently
organized meeting can be as effective, and of equal or
greater value, as a traditional conference. This only
serves to reduce the willingness of some excellent
individual scientists to commit their time towards
participating and making valuable contributions. This
is a failure not of the approach itself, but in the
communication of the approach. It's something that we
as a new initiative are currently working hard to
rectify - but yet it's a problem that quickly disappears
once word of mouth spreads and more prospective
participants begin to find and hold the belief that
Mangosteen's approach can work for them too. If you
intend to participate, please do spread the word amongst
your colleagues in the field, your assistance here is
invaluable.
If you are interested in
participating in Kinetoplastid Diseases 2008, but have your doubts
about the manner of organization and ultimate strength
of the programme, please don't believe the words of the
organizer or waste any time reading further on -
instead, please simply
take a look at
the list of past participant testimonials from recent
meetings or contact one or more of the
past
participants of Kinetoplastid Diseases 2006 in order
to ask for their opinions on the meeting - as well as on Mangosteen's
overall approach to communicating research between
colleagues in both the developed and developing worlds
and on their experience in West Africa in general.
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Contact Us | | |
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Contact the Organizer
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Please feel free to contact the
Meeting Organizer at any time, about any aspect of the
Meeting. The primary method of communication
for this meeting is by email. Please email the
meeting organizer, Dr. Anthony England, directly
at
england@mangosee.com |
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