Supplementary funding was provided by the CRDC allowing three personnel ($1750 each, $5,250 total) from the pesticide chemistry group to attend the 8th International Congress on Pesticide Chemistry, held in Washington DC from July 4-9, 1994. Additional funding was provided by personal contributions (ca. 25%) and a University travel grant for postgraduate students. I.R. Kennedy also travelled to the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France in connection with a collaborative research program on nitrogen metabolism, with travel costs partly covered by an Austra1ian Research Council grant. Alice Lee, a CRDC Research Scholar working on the development of immunoassays for pesticides, also attended, funded separately