Introduction to Infectious Disease Symposium

Introduction to the symposium.

Forty-five years ago a symposium on the ‘‘Lower Metazoa’’ was held in Pacific Grove, California. The resulting volume (Dougherty et al., 1963) sampled much of the then current study and thought about simple animals—sponges, cnidarians, ctenophores, flatworms, pseudocoelomates, and more. Extensive discussions of homology and phylogeny formed the basis for testing a variety of hypotheses concerni...

Introduction to The Olivieri symposium.

In failing...[her] when she needed them most, it is now clear that some members of the University’s Faculty of Medicine heard her muffled cries of academic freedom from the back room, yet their response was to serve another round of drinks and turn the music up louder. With the bombshell revelations in the...affair, the plug may have been pulled on this business sponsored party, and hopefully a...

Infectious Disease Rounds at Yale: Introduction to the Series

For several decades, members of the Yale medical community and its associated hospitals having an interest in infectious diseases have reserved one morning each week for lively and informative discussions of cases from their services. These sessions are held appropriately in the Paul Beeson library, named for Dr. Paul B. Beeson, a pioneer in the field of infectious diseases, and chairman of the...

Symposium Introduction

For the interventionalist, intracoronary thrombus remains an important marker for the presence of an acute coronary syndrome as well as a harbinger of potential complications during the percutaneous procedure. Acute complications include myocardial infarction either new and/or recurrent related to coronary embolization, slow coronary flow or acute closure and long term complications include sub...

SYMPOSIUM Ecological Epigenetics: An Introduction to the Symposium