The Agenda

WHY NOT WASHINGTON? » Any interest in running for office? If so, Scientists & Engineers for America is running a workshop May 10 to train scientists to run for office or work on an election campaign. To find out more about the "crash course" on being a political scientist, visit: http://tinyurl.com/2yc4nl.

SEEING SCHNEYER » Alan Schneyer, the scientist we profile in Losing your Lab, may have lost his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, but that hasn't stopped his science. You can see him speak at the European Congress of Endocrinology, which runs from May 3-7 in Berlin, at a symposium on the TGFβ Superfamily of growth factors. For the program, go to: http://tinyurl.com/2uor75.

AN UNDYING GIFT » In A life behind life science, we describe Meenhard Herlyn's work with a melanoma patient to raise funds for research, part of which supported the International Melanoma Researchers Congress in 2003, the first scientific meeting dedicated to melanoma. The IMRC holds its fifth meeting this year May 7-12 in Japan (http://tinyurl.com/38uqwv).

CIVIL WAR SCIENCE » Jealous of researcher Lenore Barbian's data from crania of Civil War veterans, described in New look at old wounds? On May 29, Terry Reimer, National Museum of Civil War Medicine's director of research, and Bob Slawson, a volunteer at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, will give a lunch lecture describing available resources for research related to Civil War soldiers, hospitals, and healthcare workers. To find out more, go to: http://tinyurl.com/33ylw3.