ISHAM NEWS! (15-11-2011)

Dear , The ISHAM website has been totally restyled, it's worth a visit, click here. The site will still be subject to change, but we think its appearance is much more attractive now.

The recently established ISHAM Working Group on Veterinary Mycology (ISHAM-VMWG) now has more than 30 active members from around the globe. A first meeting will take place next year during ISHAM congress in Berlin, 11-15 June, 2012 (see here). We will discuss cooperative options and future plans. You can still join the group, don't hesitate to contact organizers S. Seyedmousavi S.Seyedmousavi@mmb.umcn.nl or J. Guillot jguillot@vet-alfort.fr.

As a pre-congress activity of the ISHAM Congress, a short course on Histopathology will be organized on 10 June, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. For information, click here.

The 6th Trends in Medical Mycology (TIMM) will be held 11-14 October, 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Click here for the website. We will keep you informed when program details are released.

The new textbook "Fundamental Medical Mycology", by Errol Reiss, H. Jean Shadomy and G. Marshall Lyon is now in distribution. Wiley has just announced a promotional 25% discount. To receive this discount please click here and use the code VB550.

The ISHAM Working Group on Cystic Fibrosis organized a very successful workshop in Angers, France, last September. Click here for extensive information and scientific outcome of this nice event.

The 11th International Congress of Immunology and Allergy of Iran will be held at Milad Tower, Tehran, Iran 26-29 April 2012. For more information please visit the following web site here.

You may not be aware of the existence the Russian journal of Immunopathology, which also publishes fungal papers: see here.

The ISHAM Working Group barcoding medical fungi had its successful first meeting at TIMM 5 in Valencia. The session contained 5 talks treated the basics of DNA barcoding, sequencing in a reference lab, the currently used genetic loci and the future of sequence independent identification using MALDI-TOF. A short report with abstracts and the pdf files of all talks can be found here. We discussed the establishment of a unified ITS sequence database. The next meeting of the Working Group will be organized at the ISHAM congress in Berlin, Germany, June 2012, see here. If you are interested to actively participate in this Working Group, contact Wieland Meyer (w.meyer@usyd.edu.au) or Sybren de Hoog (de.hoog@cbs.knaw.nl).

The next issue of Medical Mycology (Vol. 48-8, Nov. 2011) has appeared and is freely available in your ISHAM member area. For your convenience we list the contents of this issue here below.