Coming Events

New Zealand Society of Animal Production
13TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ANIMAL REPRODUCTION 30TH JUNE-4TH JULY 1996
The ICAR conference will be held in the Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia between the 30th June and 4th July 1996. For a registration brochure, including instructions to authors contact the conference secretariat:
Kirsten Hall, ICAR 96 Congress Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia
TEL +61 2 262 2277 FAX +61 2 262 2323 E-Mail tourhosts@tourhosts.com.au

Satellite meetings in New Zealand

ëTechniques for gamete manipulation and storageí 22-24 June 1996: Hamilton, New Zealand (Contact Dr JF Smith, E-mail smithj@agresearch.cri.nz Fax 64 7 838 5658). This meeting has received financial support by the society in the form of seeding funding will examine methods recent developments for the collection and storage of sperm and embryoís. Foe further information see the leaflet enclosed with this newsletter.

ëComparative aspects of seasonal breedingí 27-28 June 1996: Queenstown, New Zealand (Contact Dr BJ McLeod, E-mail mcleodb@agresearch.cri.nz Fax 64 3 489 9024)

ëNew Zealand/Australian Associationsí 2nd Pan Pacific Veterinary Conference 23-28 June 1996
: Christchurch, New Zealand (Contact Dr G Petersen, Fax 64 6 350 5659)

NZSAP CONFERENCE: WAIKATO UNIVERSITY 12-15 FEB 1996
The annual NZSAP conference will have two special contract sessions with invited speakers: one devoted to Meat quality and the second on Recent advances in dairy genetics and reproduction. Contributed papers covering a wide variety of animal production topics will also be presented. In total more than 120 oral and poster presentations will be given. If you are at all interested in improving animal production than this is the one New Zealand conference you should attend each year.

For further information contact Dr S. Davis, AgResearch Ruakura, E-mail Daviss@agresearch.cri.nz Fax 07 838 5628 or fill in and post the application form in the attached abstract booklet.

VIII WCAP JUNE 1998
The VIII World conference on Animal Production is being held in Seoul Korea on 22-26th June 1998. The theme of the conference is "Animal production for human welfare at the wake of the third millennium". The second announcement and call for papers will be distributed in April 1996. For further information and to get on the mailing list for the second announcement contact:

Dr Jong K. Ha, Chairman, Organizing Committee, 8th WCAP,
Dept. of Animal Science and Technology
College of Agriculture and life Sciences
Seoul National University
Suweon, Korea 441-744
Fax: 0082-331-292-3801

8TH AAAP ANIMAL SCIENCE CONGRESS JUNE 1996
The 8th AAAP Congress will be held in Tokyo Japan on 13-18 October 1996. The first announcement for this conference has been made. The deadline for abstracts and titles is January 31st 1996, and that for advanced registration is July 1996. Further details including abstract submission forms and details of the conference program are available from:

Secretariat
The 8th Animal Science Congress of AAAP
c/o Inter Group Corp.
7-5-17 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107 Japan
PH +81-3-5570-6175
Fax +81-3-5570-6150