ANNOUNCEMENTS

BIOTECH Ria ‘88

Molecular Probes: Technology and Medical Applications

This international symposium will be held from April 11 to 13, 1988 at the Congress Palace, Florence, Italy. The sessions will be concerned with molecular probes in genetic diseases, in oncology and in infectious diseases.

Contact the Organizing Secretariat, Fondazione Giovanni Lorenzini, Via Monte Napoleone 23, 20121 Milan, Italy. Telephone (02) 702.267/783.868; Cable LORENZFOUND; Telefax (02) 781511.

8th John Innes Symposium

Protein Targeting

This international symposium will be held from September 6 to 9, 1988 at the John Innes Institute, Norwich, U.K. The subject areas will include the molecular mechanisms of protein secretion, protein-membrane interactions in Escherichia coli, yeast and other microbes, and intracellular protein targeting in animal and plant cells.

Contact the Symposium Secretary, Jeni A. Fox, John Innes Institute, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, U.K. Telephone (0603) 52571; Telex 975122 JIINOR G; Fax (0603) 56844.