JP2@CU.NIH.GOV (01/10/90)
Human Genome Program
The National Institutes of Health's Human Genome Program is continuing to look
for ways to increase its dialogue with the scientific community
to promote the distribution of information about the program
and thereby directly enhance its accessibility to scientists.
To this end and with this introductory message,
we are starting a Human Genome Program newsgroup.
This newsgroup will be another means for the National Center for Human
Genome Research (our new name--NCHGR for short) to distribute
announcements concerning ongoing solicitations for genome-related
applications and announcements of genome-related meetings. It is
also intended to be a forum for public discussion of issues
pertaining to the Human Genome Project. An example of the latter
was the recent posting by David Kristofferson on the bionews bulletin
board regarding the timely release of data. There are many other issues about
which we would welcome further input, such as scientific scope
of the project, ethical considerations, cost of the project, to
name a few. We will monitor the postings and will respond
when we believe that our input would be appropriate. We
encourage the community to use this opportunity to discuss these
issues with us and bring others to our attention. The
DOE plans to jointly monitor this newsgroup and post their
announcements and newsletter here regularly. In the near future
the current DOE newsletter also will become a joint DOE-NIH newsletter.
Following the posting of this message, we will post the most
recent announcements (within the last six months) soliciting grant
applications for support by NCHGR.
The staff of the NCHGR:
Mailing address for all NCHGR staff is:
NCHGR/NIH
Building 38A, Room 613
Bethesda, MD 20894
NCHGR Contact for:
Elke Jordan, Ph.D. Deputy Director, NCHGR
Deputy Director, NCHGR
e-mail: elj@nihcu.bitnet
Telephone: (301) 496-0844
Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D. policy issues, overall program
Assistant Director, NCHGR concerns, conferences, training
e-mail: gy4@nihcu.bitnet
Telephone: (301) 496-7531
Jane L. Peterson, Ph.D. Center grants
Chief, Research Centers Branch
e-mail: jp2@nihcu.bitnet
Telephone: (301) 496-7531
Bettie J. Graham, Ph.D. Research Grants, Postdoctoral
Chief, Research Grants Branch Fellowships, Ethical, Legal
e-mail: b2g@nihcu.bitnet and Social Issues Program
Telephone: (301)486-7531
Linda W. Engel, M.S. Review of all applications
Chief, Office of Scientific Review (other than RO1s) submitted
e-mail: lef@nihcu.bitnet in response to Program Announcements
Telephone: (301) 402-0733
Nancy J. Pearson, Ph.D.
Executive Secretary
e-mail: n2p@nihcu.bitnet
Telephone: (301) 402-0733
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How to Receive HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM messages
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The HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM newsgroup can be received anywhere in the
world via USENET under the USENET name bionet.molbio.genome-program.
For those who need to receive messages by regular electronic mail
instead of through USENET news software, there are four distribution
points for the HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM newsgroup depending upon your
geographical and network locations:
1.) If you reside in the Americas, to subscribe to the
HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM bulletin board, please send a message to the
Internet address
biosci@genbank.bio.net
This address also serves American BITNET users.
2.) If you use the European Academic Research Network (EARN) and
live in Continental Europe or Ireland, you can subscribe automatically
to the newsgroup by sending a message containing the line
SUBSCRIBE GNOME+PR your_personal_name
to the address
LISTSERV@IRLEARN
(for example, SUBSCRIBE GNOME+PR Chris Smith). The Subject line of
the message should be left blank.
3.) If you reside in the United Kingdom, please send your
subscription request to
biosci@uk.ac.daresbury
4.) If you reside in Scandinavia (or in Continental Europe and have
Internet access), please send your subscription to
biosci@bmc.uu.se
If you do not fall into any of the above categories you may contact
whichever of the above sites is most convenient.
Posting Messages to the Bulletin Board
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Once you have chosen your distribution point, you may post messages by
sending to the bulletin board address at that site. Note below the
shorter addresses used for BITNET/EARN/JANET sites.
Location Posting address
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Americas / Internet format: human-genome-program@genbank.bio.net
Americas / BITNET format: gnome-pr@genbank.bio.net
Ireland / EARN format: gnome-pr@irlearn.ucd.ie
U.K. / JANET format: gnome-pr@uk.ac.daresbury
Sweden / Internet format: human-genome-program@bmc.uu.se
USENET news software users may post messages on their local computer
to bionet.molbio.genome-program (set distribution to "world") and let
the software handle distribution details.