ISHAM NEWS! (22-04-2013)

Dear , MYK-47, the 2013 meeting of the German-speaking Mycological Society, will be held in Tübingen, Germany, 5-7 September, 2013. The preliminary program can be found on this flyer here, or visit the website here.

The Joint Genome Institute (JGI) welcomes nominations of genomes to be sequences in its Community Sequencing Program. For procedures how to submit a proposal, see here.  The current fungal program can be found here.

The ECMM-ISHAM Working group on Zygomycoses has just published a special issue of the journal Persoonia on zygomycete biodiversity and phylogeny. The issue is available in open access here.

The CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre has a vacancy for a PhD student to work on ‘Rapid detection and limitation of toxigenic Fusarium species’. Information can be found on the advertisement here or contact Anne van Diepeningen. Application letters can be send before May 1st 2013 to vacancies@cbs.knaw.nl stating vacancy CBS-2013-02 in the subject line.

Micom 2014, an International Conference on Microbial Communication will be held in Jena, Germany, 31 March – 3 April, 2014. Full info can be found here.

A PhD Thesis by Ferry Hagen entitled “Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans - Cosmopolitans on the move” is now available in the Thesis area of the ISHAM website here.

Two new issues of Medical Mycology have appeared and are now freely available via your ISHAM member area: vol. 51 nos 3 and 4. For your convenience we list the contents below:

Volume 51, Number 3 (April 2013)

Is the incidence of candidemia caused by Candida glabrata increasing in Brazil? Five-year surveillance of Candida bloodstream infection in a university reference hospital in southeast Brazil
Maria Luiza Moretti, Plinio Trabasso, Luzia Lyra, Renata Fagnani, Mariangela Ribeiro Resende, Luis Gustavo de Oliveira Cardoso, Angélica Zaninelli Schreiber
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 225–230.

Candida mesorugosa sp. nov., a novel yeast species similar to Candida rugosa, isolated from a tertiary hospital in Brazil
Guilherme M. Chaves, Gisela R. Terçarioli, Ana Carolina B. Padovan, Robert C. Rosas, Renata C. Ferreira, Analy S. A. Melo, Arnaldo L. Colombo
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 231–242.

Curcumin-mediated photodynamic inactivation of Candida albicans in a murine model of oral candidiasis
Lívia Nordi Dovigo, Juliana Cabrini Carmello, Carlos Alberto de Souza Costa, Carlos Eduardo Vergani, Iguatemy Lourenço Brunetti, Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato, Ana Cláudia Pavarina
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 243–251.

Multilocus sequence typing of Cryptococcus neoformans in non-HIV associated cryptococcosis in Nagasaki, Japan
Tomo Mihara, Koichi Izumikawa, Hiroshi Kakeya, Popchai Ngamskulrungroj, Takashi Umeyama, Takahiro Takazono, Masato Tashiro, Shigeki Nakamura, Yoshifumi Imamura, Taiga Miyazaki, Hideaki Ohno, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Katsunori Yanagihara, Yoshitsugu Miyzaki, Shigeru Kohno
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 252–260.

Fluconazole resistance in cryptococcal disease: emerging or intrinsic?
Jenny Wan Sai Cheong, Joe McCormack
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 261–269.

Histoplasma capsulatum preferentially induces IDO in the lung
Chadi A. Hage, Daniel J. Horan, Michelle Durkin, Patricia Connolly, Zeruesenay Desta, Todd C. Skaar, Kenneth S. Knox, L. Joseph Wheat
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 270–279.

Identification of antifungal natural products via Saccharomyces cerevisiae bioassay: insights into macrotetrolide drug spectrum, potency and mode of action
Brad Tebbets, Zhiguo Yu, Douglas Stewart, Li-Xing Zhao, Yi Jiang, Li-Hua Xu, David Andes, Ben Shen, Bruce Klein
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 280–289.

Characterization of an antigenic chitosanase from the cellulolytic fungus Chaetomium globosum
Natacha B. Provost, Chunhua Shi, Yi-Min She, Terry D. Cyr, J. David Miller
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 290–299.

Practical identification of eight medically important Trichosporon species by reverse line blot hybridization (RLB) assay and rolling circle amplification (RCA)
Meng Xiao, Li-Na Guo, Fanrong Kong, He Wang, Tania C. Sorrell, Ruo-Yu Li, Wei Jiang, Sharon C-A. Chen, Ying-Chun Xu
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 300–308.

In vitro activity of aminosterols against dermatophytes
Oumar Coulibaly, Kamel Alhanout, Coralie L'Ollivier, Jean-Michel Brunel, Mahamadou A Thera, Abdoulaye A Djimdé, Ogobara K Doumbo, Renaud Piarroux, Stéphane Ranque
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 309–312.

Endemic paracoccidioidomycosis: relationship between clinical presentation and patients’ demographic features
Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues, Valdes Roberto Bollela, Benedito Antônio Lopes Da Fonseca, Roberto Martinez
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 313–318.

Association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level and type of coccidioidal infection
George R. Thompson III, Derek Bays, Sandra L. Taylor, Stuart H. Cohen, Demosthenes Pappagianis
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 319–323.

Initial voriconazole trough blood levels and clinical outcomes of invasive aspergillosis in patients with hematologic malignancies
Yeon-Joo Lee, Sang-Oh Lee, Sang-Ho Choi, Yang Soo Kim, Jun Hee Woo, Sail Chun, Dae-Young Kim, Jung-Hee Lee, Je-Hwan Lee, Kyoo-Hyung Lee, Sung-Han Kim
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 324–330.

Aspartyl proteinase, phospholipase, esterase and hemolysin activities of clinical isolates of the Candida parapsilosis species complex
Rogelio de J. Treviño-Rangel, J. Gerardo González, Gloria M. González
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 331–335.

Better hospital nutrition needed to prevent and treat Aspergillus infections
Luke T. Curtis
Medical Mycology Apr 2013, Vol. 51, No. 3: 336.