From June 24, 2010 the nematode
collection of Wageningen University (NCWU), will be handed
over to the National Plant Protection Organisation, The
Netherlands
The collection will be named: Wageningen Nematode Collection
(acronym: WaNeCo),
and is part of a cooperation between the NPPO and Wageningen
University.
Prof. dr. Gerrit Karssen and Msc Evelyn van Heese will
be the new curators.
Slides with nematodes (holo- and paratypes etc.) can be
deposited at our new address:
Wageningen Nematode Collection (WaNeCo)
P.O. Box 9102
6700 HC Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 317 496846
e-mail: g.karssen@minlnv.nl
WaNeCo maintains types of nematodes from marine, freshwater
and terrestrial habitats. It also includes an extensive
nomenclatorial database. Both will be made available after
the summer of 2010 at www.waneco.eu
For any new nematode taxon to be published in your journal
and types to be deposited in our collection, we would be
very thankful if our collection name and acronym will be
published correctly in your journal.
Our best regards,
Gerrit Karssen and Evelyn van Heese
Rothamsted Nematode Collection
finds a new home
The Central Science Laboratory (CSL) has acquired the Rothamsted
Nematode Collection. Whilst it is of enormous historic value,
we hope to use available technology to develop it as a facility
that can be used by all nematologists.
The attached communique is self-explanatory, but if you
have
any questions, please ask.
../pdf/Communique
RNC CSL ww.pdf
We are willing to consider any research programmes that
will help us to accelerate the development of this collection,
in conjunction with our own CSL collection.
Thank you for your help,
Sue Hockland
29 October, 2008
Dr. Sue Hockland Phone: +44 (0)1904 462214
Consultant Nematologist
Pest & Disease Identification Team GTN: 5129 2214
Central Science Laboratory Fax: +44 (0)1904 462250
Sand Hutton E-mail: s.hockland@csl.gov.uk
York YO41 1LZ Web: http://www.csl.gov.uk
The Harold W. Manter
Laboratory (HWML) of Parasitology in the University of Nebraska
State Museum
The Manter Laboratory (HWML) holds the
2nd largest collection of metazoan parasites in the western
hemisphere and provides training in parasite taxonomy, systematics,
and biodiversity through field work, loans, and onsite study
of specimens in the collections. The collection data are
fully on-line (http://hwml.unl.edu)
and continual improvements are being made to the quality
of data in the databases. The HWML holds a large collection
of digenetic trematodes from marine teleost fishes (collected
by Harold Manter) from the tropical Pacific Ocean. Also
held is one of the most complete assemblage of ecto- and
endoparasites from mammals from the central Neotropics (mostly
from Bolivia). The HWML is actively recruiting students
through the School of Biological Sciences at UNL and students
and research associates of the lab are engaged in local,
national, and international research projects focusing on
taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, and ecology of host-parasite
systems. One of the primary missions of the HWML is to actively
train new systematists in the field of parasitology and
parasite biodiversity.
The collection manager for Parasitology
is F. Agustín Jiménez-Ruiz, an expert in the
systematics of nematodes (especially the Heterakoidea).
Visit the Manter Laboratory at http://hwml.unl.edu
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Contact: Scott Lyell Gardner, Ph.D., Curator
of Parasitology, The Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology,
W-529 Nebraska Hall, The University of Nebraska State Museum,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0514,
e-mail: slg@unl.edu, tel:
402-472-3334, fax: 402-472-8949
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