Registration fees in Euro Third World Congress on (VAT included) before after Leishmaniosis January 31st January 31st Participant 350,00 400,00 Student 250,00 300,00 10-15 April 2005 Accompanying person 220,00 250,00 -Terrasini Registration fees include: ¥ Participants and Students , - abstracts book - coffee breaks - concert and welcome cocktail - typical dinner on Wednesday - excursion on Tuesday afternoon ¥ Accompanying person - concert and welcome cocktail - typical dinner - excursion on Tuesday afternoon - accompanying persons’ programme

Location Città del Mare Hotel & Resort, Terrasini, Palermo, Sicily, Italy (www.cittadelmare.it) Hotel & Resort Città del Mare is a holiday complex near the village of Terrasini, situated in the northern tip of the magnificent Gulf of Castellamare. Terrasini is located 43100 Parma, Italy Ghiretti 2 Via C. New Team Worldleish 3 Organizing Secretariat between Palermo and , 35 km west of Palermo and 19 km from the Palermo airport Punta Raisi, connected with Città del Mare by a shuttle bus. The Hotel & Resort Città del Mare is located amidst an area of approximately 27 hectare grounds, perched on a range of hills with superb views, most beautiful sunsets, mild climate and full of greenery, flowers, birds and exotic plants. The Hotel & Resort Città del Mare offers 750 comfortable guestrooms with bathroom with shower and WC, hairdryer, minibar, direct dial telephone, satellite TV and balcony or terrace. Four different restaurants serve an exquisite local and international cuisine. Sports and Wellness include: Swimming in the Olympic pool, Lago dei Fiori, rocky beach, sandy beach, located 5 minutes from the hotel, easily accessible by a free shuttle service and the famous Toboggan with three sets of chutes, leading to pools sea. 5 tennis courts, sauna, massage.

Worldleish3 first announcement Persons Provisional Registration Card eehn:Tlfx E-mail: Country: Telefax: City: (First name): information on I wish to receive further Worldleish 3 I hope to present a poster / communication on commercial exhibitionWe will partecipate I will be accompanied My attendance is and Area Code) (Please indicate Country Telephone: Postal Code: Mailing address: Institution: (Family name): / Ms. / Mrs. / Mr. / Dr. Prof. PRE-REGISTRATION FORM Worldleish 3 gation to attend, but programme ensure a copy is sent to you. of the preliminary

Dear Colleagues, Organized by Scientific programme This does not imply any obli- hoping to attend the followingWorldleish 3 are requested to return provisional application form. It gives us great pleasure to extend our cordial ¥ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia (IZS), Italy Tentative topics: ¥ Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy rd ¥ Cell biology invitation to you all to attend the 3 International ¥ Turkish Society for Parasitology Congress on Leishmania and Leishmaniosis ¥ Biochemistry (=leishmaniasis) or Worldleish 3, which will be held President of Worldleish 3 ¥ Molecular biology in Palermo - Terrasini, Sicily, Italy April 10-15, 2005. Romano Marabelli (Italy) ¥ Biotechnology The first two congresses held in Instabul, Turkey ¥ Genetic polymorphism and Crete, Greece were a great success. The third Scientific Committee ¥ Genome project one is being organized in compliance with the [tentative and subject to further changes] ¥ Parasite-host interactions Palermo-Terrasini, Italy, 2005 10-15 April participant's wish to have this meeting every four Chairmen: ¥ Inapparent/subclinical/asymptomatic infections K.P. Chang, [email protected] ¥ Leishmania/HIV co-infection years. S. Caracappa, [email protected] ¥ Clinical Immunology (please use capital letters) In WorldLeish 3, we hope to re-unite leishmaniacs Members: ¥ Experimental Immunology Joachim Clos (Germany), Graham H. Coombs (UK) from the world over by providing a forum to all for ¥ Immunogenetics of susceptibility and resistance ae Signature Date: presenting their state-of-the-art research. Thus, Simon Croft* (UK), Jean-Pierre Dedet (France) ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Philippe Desjeux* (Switzerland) ¥ Experimental vaccination yes yes yes persons ...... yes, by n. almost certain scientists from all over the world will have the Jean-Claude Dujardin* (Belgium) Luigi Gradoni (Italy) ¥ Human vaccine trials opportunity to share their findings, thoughts, and Emanuela Handman (Australia), Charles L. Jaffe (Israel) ¥ Diagnosis: Molecular and immunological progress. It is also necessary to provide a fresh Robert Killick-Kendrick (UK), Michael A. Miles* (UK) ¥ Drugs and pharmacokinetics Heidrun Moll (Germany), Hooman Momen* (Brasil) impetus to our long-term aims to identify areas of ¥ Clinical trials of chemotherapy and interest for future studies, and to promote Hank Murray (USA), Fred R. Opperdoes (Belgium) Yusuf Ozbel (Turkey), Barbara Papadopoulou (Canada) immunotherapy interactions and cooperation among scientists from Paul Ready (UK), Steven G. Reed (USA) ¥ Epidemiology all disciplines of relevance in order to solve the David Sacks (USA), Ketty Soteriadou (Greece) ¥ Vector biology global problems of leishmanioses. Ken Stuart (USA), Shyam Sundar (India) ¥ Vector-parasite ecogenetics Yara M. Traub-Cseko* (Brasil), Mary E. Wilson* (USA) The extraordinary hospitality of Sicilian people, the * to be confirmed ¥ Reservoir ecology historical and natural beauty of this land, and the ¥ Prediction of epidemics ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ old tradition in leishmania studies (the Palermo Organizing Committee ¥ Integrated control programs: Leishmania no no no no unsure school of medicine introduced the antimonial Presidents: network/Vector control treatment of VL for the first time, in 1915), will also M. Ali Ozcel, [email protected] A.A. Riela, [email protected] help the participants to experience both cultural and scientific view of the meeting. Vice President: Scientific information S. Caracappa, [email protected] Please send your comments and suggestions, and S. Naselli, [email protected] The scientific programme will focus on: help us to inform other colleagues. Write or e-mail Secretary: S. Dara, [email protected] ¥ Lectures, to cover topics of general and major us for your inclusion in the mailing list. Please do Treesurer: P.Tronca, [email protected] interest ¥ Round tables, to present current research not hesitate to contact us for further information. Members: L. Gradoni (Italy), [email protected] advances in different areas We look forward to hearing from you and M. Gramiccia (Italy), [email protected] ¥ Oral and poster presentation welcoming you to Sicily in 2005 for an exciting and M. Maroli (Italy), [email protected] Information about submission of abstracts and unforgettable scientific and cultural experience. M. Ziya Alkan (Turkey), [email protected] relevant dates will be given with the preliminary Sincerely, Organizing Secretariat programme that will be sent in October 2004. Also check the websites: New Team Via C. Ghiretti, 2 - 43100 Parma The Organizing Committee Tel. 00 39 0521 293913 - Fax 00 39 0521 294036 www.worldleish.org/ e-mail: [email protected] - www.newteam.it www.newteam.it/worldleish3 ✂