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Latest News!
ISHAM announces with great sadness that one of our founding members, Prof. Gabriel Segretain, has passed away at the age of 95. An obituary can be found at the ISHAM website
The Hellenic Society for Medical Mycology (Greece) has joined ISHAM. Their website is being built up, please take a first look at http://www.hsmm.gr/index_en.html .
A new quarterly review journal in medical mycology has been started: the Journal of Invasive Fungal Infections, with John Perfect as editor-in-chief. For full information and online access, click http://www.invasivefungalinfections.com/default.aspx .
ISHAM welcomes a new Working Group coordinated by David Katerere and Dejan Stojkovic on bioprospecting, i.e. the potential use of phytoalexins produced by plants for their defense against microbial invasion, to develop new antifungals. Information on the network can be found on the ISHAM website.
On 15 and 16 May, 2008, the congres of the Société Française de Mycologie Médicale will be organized in Tours, France. For full information, visit http://myco2008.med.univ-tours.fr/ .
A post-graduate course in medical mycology and parasitology is organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina July 9-17, 2008. Click here for further information.
The Workshop organized by the ISHAM Working Group Sinusitis last February in Chandigarh has been very successful. A report can be found at the ISHAM website
A symposium entitled “Fungi and Health” will be organized by the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands, on 13-14 November, 2008, at the occasion of the 200 year anniversary of the Royal Academy of Sciences to which CBS belongs. Click here for further information.
The 12th International Congress on Yeasts will be organized in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 11-15, 2008, with several medically important sessions. Click here for further information.
Entering its second year of publication, Current Fungal Infection Reports is one of the Current Reports journals that were originally developed to enable specialists to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information in their field. Themes covered so far include epidemiology, genomics and pathogenesis, pharmacology of new antifungal agents, therapy, diagnosis and much more. Each issue contains a web alert. The editorial team is headed up by Andreas Groll and Carol Kauffman. The journal is published quarterly by the Current Medicine group and is published both in paper and electronic formats. Click here for further information.
