International Agenda
Edited by: Gioconda San Blas (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela) sanblasg@ivic.ve and
Sybren de Hoog (Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands) de.hoog@cbs.knaw.nl .
March 1-12 2010
An International Laboratory Fusarium Workshop will be organized by Sofia Schulze (schulze@exa.unrc.edu.ar) and Ludwig Pfenning (ludwig@ufla.br) at the Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Argentina, 1-12 March, 2010. For information, see here.
March 3-5 2010
The 20st Focus on Fungal Infections will be organized in New Orleans, U.S.A., 3-5 March, 2010. Program and information can be obtained here.
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March 12-13 2010
The 12th International Symposium on Febrile Neutropenia will be organized 12-13 March, 2010 in Luxembourg city. For information, click here.
March 14-18 2010
The 46st Congress of the Brazilian Society for Tropical Medicine (MEDTROP) will be organized 14-18 March, 2010 at Foz do Iguacu, Brasil, with some important mycological sections. For info check the website here. For a special ISHAM-sponsored symposium on Neglected Mycoses, 16 March, click here.
March 15-26 2010
The next international CBS Course Medical Mycology will be held at Utrecht, The Netherlands, 15-26 March, 2010. For information and registration, click here.
March 17 2010
NSMM One-Day Basic Course in Medical Mycology is held in Oslo, 17 March 2010.
March 18 2010
The Nordic Society for Medical Mycology (NSMM) will organize its 7th scientific meeting “Clinical Consequences of Host Fungus Interactions” on March 18, 2010 in Oslo, Norway. A program will soon be available here.
March 22-26 2010
The next BSMM Course on Diagnostic Medical Mycology will be held 22-26 March in Leeds, U.K. Information is on the BSMM website, click here.
March 22-26 2010
The 10th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis will be held in Miami, Florida, USA on 22-26 March, 2010. Information can be found here.
March 22-26 2010
The 2nd ASM Conference on Dimorphic Fungal Pathogens is organized in the same week, 22-26 March, 2010, in Miami, Florida, USA. For information, click here.
March 29 2010
The 10th European Conference on Fungal Genetics will take place in Noordwijkerhout The Netherlands, 29 March – 1 April, 2010. See the website here http://www.ecfg10.info/.
April 6-8 2010
Laboratory Identification of Emerging Pathogenic Molds
April 6-8, 2010 OR April 13-15, 2010
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA More info
April 7-8 2010
Mycoses Study Group (MSG)
2010 Annual Meeting
Courtyard By Marriott
Philadelphia Downtown
21 N Juniper Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107 More info
April 10-13 2010
The next European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) will take place in Vienna, Austria, 10-13 April, 2010. A medical mycology section is scheduled. For information, see here.
April 17-21 2010
A CNRS Conference Jacques Monod entitled ‘New and Emerging Fungal Diseases of Animals and Plants: evolutionary aspects in the context of global changes’ will be organized at Roscoff in Brittany, France, 17-21 April, 2010.
May 6-8 2010
The ECMM-ISHAM Working Group on Pseudallescheria Scedosporium Infections organizes its next Workshop in Bonn, Germany, 6-8 May 2010. The workshop is directly linked with a meeting of the Working Group Antifungal Chemotherapy of the Paul Ehrlich Gesellschaft (PEG). Program | Registration | Abstracts can be submitted separatly here
May 14-16 2010
The ISHAM Working Group on Black Yeasts will organize its next Workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 14-16 May, 2010. Information and Program | registration
May 19-21 2010
Journées conjointes
Société française de mycologie médicale, Société française de parasitologie
Société de médecine des voyages. Amphithéâtre de la Faculté de droit – Place Saint-Serge 49100 ANGERS. more info
May 28-30 2010
The ECMM-ISHAM Working Group on Zygomycoses organizes its 2nd Forum in Athens, Greece, 28-30 May, 2010. more info
June 13-182010
A Gordon conference on Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology will be held in Holderness, U.S.A., June 13-18, 2010. The preliminary program will soon be posted here.
June 14-162010
A course on Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses will be held in Singapore, 14-16 June, 2010. For information and application, see here.
August 1-62010
1-6 August 2010 IMC9 The Biology of Fungi 9th International Mycological Congress
Edinburgh International Conference Centre & Usher Hall, Scotland, U.K. This congress is mainly oriented to fundamental research, also in the medical area. More info, http://www.imc9.info/.
September 9-11 2010
The 44st Scientific Meeting of the German-speaking Mycological Society (MYK) will take place in Vienna, Austria,
9-11, September 2010, jointly with the Austrian Society for Medical Mycology, see here. We will let you know when a preliminary program is available.
September 15-18 2010
The Czechoslovak Microbiological Society will organize its 25th Annual Meeting in Stara Lesna, High Tatras, Czechia, 15-18 September, 2010. There will be presentations on infectious diseases, epidemiology, nosocomial infections, antifungals and yeast biology, see here (in Czech; English edition will follow in due course).
September 20-24 2010
The 11th European Fusarium Seminar entitled ‘Fusarium – Mycotoxins, Taxonomy, Pathogenicity and Host Resistance’ will be held at Radzikow near Warsaw, Poland, 20-24 Sept, 2010. Full information is provided here
September 22-25 2010
The 2nd Central European Symposium on Industrial Microbiology and Microbial Ecology – “Power of Microbes in Industry and Environment”, with sessions on indoor mycology and antifungals, will take place in Malinska, Croatia, 22-25 September, 2010. For information, see: here.
September 23-25 2010
The 10th National Congress of the Italian Society of Mycologists (FIMUA) and the 2nd Workshop ECMM/CEMM will be held in Milan, 23-25 September, 2010. The congress will be a forum to discuss new research results on human and animal diseases, fungal biology, food contamination, epidemiology, drug resistance, conventional and molecular diagnosis. See the website here.
November 3-52010
The 10th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID X) will take place in Amsterdam, November, 3-5, 2010. The organizers are currently calling for abstracts for poster presentations with an abstract deadline of June 4, 2010. Selected submissions may be offered an oral presentation slot. For further information see here.
Januari 16-212011
A Gordon Research Conference entitled “Immunology of Fungal Infections” will be held January 16-21, 2011 in Galveston, Texas, U.S.A. For information see the website here
September 5-9 2011
The next meeting of the three divisions of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) will take place in Sapporo, Japan; the bacteriological and mycological parts will be held 5 – 9 September, 2011. For information, click here . Several medical sessions are expected.
October 2-5 2011
The 5th Trends in Medical Mycology (TIMM) will take place in the Valencia Conference Centre, Valencia, Span, 2-5 October 2011. The website is www.TIMM2011.org.
October 19-22 2011
The Croatian Microbiological Society will organize a meeting entitled “Power of fungi and mycotoxins” in Trogir, Croatia, 19-22 October, 2011. Program sections are fungal disease, antifungals, and mycotoxins.
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