Session Lectures and Special Workshops

Session 1 Drug design based on agrc enomics 

Ackerson (Devgen, Belgium). The similar approaches in the field of herbicide and fungicide research were surveyed by T. Ehrhardt (BASF, Germany) and by 

Organizers E. Kuwano (Japan), G. D. Crouse (USA), U. Mueller (Switzerland) 

Session 6 Control agents for vectors and communicable diseases 

These two sessions dealing with vector control issues were further supplemented by a luncheon seminar entitled Prospects for use of insecticide treated materials in personal protection and chemical control of vector borne diseases by P. F. Guillet (WHO, Switzerland). The importance of technology using insecticide-incorporated or -coated polymer fibers was pointed out. Comments were also given that WHO was in favor of the indoor use of DDT for controlling malaria vectors. 

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The QSCP-XIII workshop, which was the first in the series held in North America, was truly international in namre. We welcomed more than 100 participants from 22 countries from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The workshop was divided into 19 plenary sessions, during which a total of 64 scientific lectures were delivered in accordance with the usual QSCP democratic allocation of about 30 minutes for each lecture. These lectures were complemented by two 45-minute long keynote plenary talks which focused on science and relevant historical overviews, constimting a special session that was held on 6 July, as well as by a welcome presentation by Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University, J. Ian Gray, given on 7 July, and 36 poster presentations divided into two poster sessions. 

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