ISHAM NEWS! (04-02-2014)
Dear ,
The 54th
ICAAC (Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)
will be held in Washington, DC, U.S.A., 5-9 September, 2014. All information on
this major event can be found
here.
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A
preliminary program for one day Postgraduate Technical Workshop “Veterinary
Mycology in Practice”, a joint activity between the ISHAM Veterinary
Working Group and ESCVP, to be held on 3 October, 2014 in Milan, Italy, can be
found here. For registration, visit the website of the WG here. |
Medical Mycology CPD courses (3rd March 2013 - February 2015) Four
(three-week) Units of the University of Manchester Medical Mycology MSc
programme are now available as Continuing Professional Development courses. For
more information, click
here.
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The 3rd Forum
on Zygomycosis, organized by the ECMM/ISHAM Working Group on Zygomycosis,
will take place in Marathon, Greece, 19-21 September, 2014. For further
information please go to www.zygomycosis2014.eu. |
LIFE's (Leading International Fungal Education)
February newsletter has appeared, please follow this
link. LIFE-worldwide
site is now also available in Spanish.  |
The
International Conference on Antimicrobial Research (ICAR2014) will
be held in Madrid, Spain, 1-3 October, 2014. For full information and
registration, click here.
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Trends in Environmental
Microbiology for Public Health (TEMPH2014), with topics on indoor mycology,
will take place 18-24 September, 2014, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Full information can be found
here.  |
| A course
on Diagnostic Medical Mycology is organized at the University of Leeds,
U.K., 7-11 April, 2014. More information is available here and application
forms are available by emailing Ruth Ashbee. |
The next Latin American medical mycology conference (Infocus) will be
organized in Curitiba, Brazil, 16-18 October, 2014. Information is available on
this website.
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The 3rd meeting of the ECMM/ISHAM working
group on Fungal Respiratory Infections in Cystic Fibrosis will be held
in Angers, France, 5-6 June, 2014. Information can be found here and for
registration, contact fri.cf2014@gmail.com. |
The Max von Pettekofer Institute for Hygiene and
Microbiology in Munich, Germany, offers a PhD position to characterize
the mitochondrial fusion and fission mechanisms in Aspergillus fumigatus.
Information can be found here. |
 The Sixth Russian Congress of Medical Mycology will be held in Moscow, Russia, 8-10 April, 2014. Full information is available
on the website here.
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A number of important disease management guidelines have been published by ECMM and ESCMID, see for
phaeohyphomycosis
here,
for mucormycosis
here and for rare invasive yeast infections
here. |
The 3rd Iranian
Congress on Medical Mycology will be held in Tehran, Iran, 15-16 May, 2014.
For full information and registration, click
here. |
The ISHAM Pediatric working group has expanded and its
name is modified to “International Pediatric Fungal Network” .
There is a new fancy website here. |
ISHAM welcomes a new Working
Group on AIDS-related Mycoses. A first outline of plans of this new WG can
be found in the working group area of the ISHAM website here. |
The 1st International Meeting organized by the ISHAM
Working group Sporothrix and Sporotrichosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
last October was a great success. A short report can be found here.
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A
book on Fungal Infections in Asia - The Eastern Frontier of
Mycology, written by by Arunaloke Chakrabarti, has appeared. The frequency and
unique peculiarities of fungal infections in Asia and the diagnostic challenges
in resource constrained settings and described. Suited to both mycology
students and clinical care teams. ISBN:978-81-312-3556-0. |
The Winter-2014 issue of the
Newsletter of the ISHAM WG Mycology Study Group can be found here. |
The 5th Conges of Macedonian
Microbiologists will take place 28-31 May, 2014 in Ohrid, Macedonia. All
information can be found
here |
Do you have anything to announce to the active community of workers
in all fields of medical mycology, free of charge? Please send a link to your
event to de.hoog@cbs.knaw.nl. |
