ISHAM NEWS! (03-10-2011)

Dear , ISHAM happily welcomes two new Working Groups! One will focus on Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA) and the other on Veterinary Mycology. Details of the two working groups can be found below. In principle WG membership is open to all ISHAM members; please contact the conveners.

The ABPA Working Group is convened by Ritesh Agarwal, Arunaloke Chakrabarti and David Denning. A short synopsis of the group activity may be seen here. The group wants to focus on ABPA in asthmatics only and would address different aspects the disease to develop consensus protocol and research. A workshop has been planned on February 9, 2012 in India, during the SIHAM congress (siham2012.com). For details, contact the conveners.

A Veterinary Mycology Working Group (VMWG) is being convened by Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi and Jacques Guillot. A short proposal can be found here. The WG will soon have its own webpage. An meeting at the ISHAM congress 2012 outside the program is planned, to discuss the needs and interests of WG members. We hope to see many of you there.

At the ISHAM Congress in Berlin, Germany, June 11-15, 2012 (www.isham2012.org) the Working Groups play a significant role. There will be eighteen Working Group sessions in the congress, dealing with a diversity of burning subjects, ranging from fundamental to clinical, and from diagnostics to antifungals; see the preliminary program. We urge all Working Group members to attend the congress and to learn about the latest achievements in their respective areas. Also the Mycology Study Group (MSG) will play a significant role at the congress. An overview of all Working Group sessions can be found here.

The program of the 5th Advances Against Aspergillosis (AAA) in Istanbul, Turkey, 26-28 January, 2012 is now complete. Full information can be found here. A must for everyone working with Aspergillus!

The program of the Belgian-Netherlands scientific meeting in Antwerp, Belgium, 13 October, 2012 is now available here. All talks are in English. The meeting is free of charge but registration is requested.

The 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) will be held in San Francisco, U.S.A., 9-12 September, 2012. We will update you as soon as more information is available, but you may already put the dates of this major event in your agenda.

A special issue entitled "European Expert Opinion on the Management of Invasive Candidiasis in Adults" has appeared in Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 17, Supplement s5.

Perhaps you had some problems with your member login for Medical Mycology; these problems have now been solved, it works smoothly. Just click on Access Member Area. Your login is your e-mail address, and if you have forgotten your password it will be sent to you by clicking on Forgotten Password. Login, click on the journal picture, and you have the 49 journal volumes free of charge. The latest issue is 49-7; for your convenience we list the contents below.