ISHAM NEWS! (02-06-2010)
Dear [name], as an active ISHAM member you are certainly aware of all the advantages of membership. Did you realize that you will even save a lot of money if you use all options? We made a summary of the goodies for our members, take a look here. And more is coming!
Our educational tool Case of the Month has been renovated. Guess the identity of this fungus donated by Daniel Elad, and find the solution in the Forum in your member area.
Our Gallery of Mycological Heroes has also been renovated with some new portaits of people that have brought medical mycology forward. Further donations of obituaries are appreciated, please send your material to de.hoog@cbs.knaw.nl.
Additional information is available on 10th National Congress of the Italian Society of Mycologists, 23-25 September, 2010 in Milano, Italy, see here. An ECMM Workshop held back-to-back with the National Congress of the Italian Federation of Mycopathology (FIMUA).
The next international CBS Course Medical Mycology will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 7-17 March, 2011. Full information on the course can be found here. Timely registration is recommended.
A first textbook on Malassezia has just been published by Boekhout et al., encouraged by the ISHAM Malassezia working group collaborations. Information can be found here.
Young ISHAM is alive and kicking, now with new local ambassadors in many countries. Take a look at their activities here.
The latest issue of Medical Mycology (Vol. 48 No. 4) has been published and is freely available in your member area. For your convenience, we list the contents below:
Pages 561-569: Genotype and mating type distribution within clinical Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii isolates from patients with cryptococcal meningitis in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Authors: Delio José Mora, André Luiz Pedrosa, Virmondes Rodrigues, Claudia Maria Leite Maffei, Luciana Trilles, MáRcia Dos Santos Lazéra, Mario León Silva-Vergara |
Pages 570-579: Cryptococcal meningitis in non-HIV-infected patients in a Chinese tertiary care hospital, 1997–2007
Authors: Li-Ping Zhu, Ji-Qin Wu, Bin Xu, Xue-Ting Ou, Qiang-Qiang Zhang, Xin-Hua Weng |
Pages 580-588: Surfactant protein D binding to Aspergillus fumigatus hyphae is calcineurin-sensitive
Authors: Scarlett Geunes-Boyer, Joseph Heitman, Jo Rae Wright, William J. Steinbach |
Pages 589-597: Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK-3) in innate immune response of human immature dendritic cells to Aspergillus fumigatus
Authors: Katrin Spinnler, Markus Mezger, Michael Steffens, Helga Sennefelder, Oliver Kurzai, Hermann Einsele, Juergen Loeffler |
Pages 598-605: Proteomic analysis of proteins released from growth-arrested Candida albicans following exposure to caspofungin
Authors: Judy Kelly, Kevin Kavanagh |
Pages 606-612: Anti-Candida-biofilm activity of micafungin is attenuated by voriconazole but restored by pharmacological inhibition of Hsp90-related stress responses
Authors: Yukihiro Kaneko, Hideaki Ohno, Hidesuke Fukazawa, Yuko Murakami, Yoshifumi Imamura, Shigeru Kohno, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki |
Pages 613-621: Inhibition of ergosterol synthesis by novel antifungal compounds targeting C-14 reductase
Authors: Masato Hata, Yoshikazu Ishii, Eri Watanabe, Kouichi Uoto, Shozo Kobayashi, Ken-Ichi Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Otani, Akikazu Ando |
Pages 622-628: Indoor wet cells harbour melanized agents of cutaneous infection
Authors: X. Lian, G. S. de Hoog |
Pages 629-634: Successful mating of Trichophyton rubrum with Arthroderma simii
Authors: Kazushi Anzawa, Masako Kawasaki, Takashi Mochizuki, Hiroshi Ishizaki |
Pages 635-638: Disseminated pseudallescheriosis in a dog
Authors: D. Elad, S. Perl, G. Yamin, S. Blum, D. David |
Pages 639-642: Eumycetoma caused by Madurella mycetomatis in a mare
Authors: Daniel Elad, Shlomo Blum, Amos Kol, Nir Ederi, Dan David |
Pages 643-646: A case of cutaneous protothecosis successfully treated with local thermal therapy as an adjunct to itraconazole therapy in an immunocompromised host
Authors: Nanako Yamada, Yuichi Yoshida, Tokuya Ohsawa, Masakazu Takahara, Shinichi Morino, Osamu Yamamoto |
Pages 647-652: Unilateral ureteral obstruction caused by Aspergillus, subgenus Nidulantes in a patient on steroid therapy: a case report and review of the literature
Authors: Young Kyung Yoon, Eun Hae Kang, Kwang Ho In, Min Ja Kim |
Pages 653-655: Isolation of Trichophyton rubrum var. raubitschekii from a dog
Authors: Rui Kano, Masahiko Nagata, Takayuki Suzuki, Shinichi Watanabe, Hiroshi Kamata, Atsuhiko Hasegawa |
Pages 656-660: A new species, Aspergillus persii, as an agent of onychomycosis
Authors: Mirca Zotti, Marco Machetti, Maddalena Perotti, Gianfranco Barabino, Agostino Persi |
Pages 661-664: False-positive Aspergillus real-time PCR assay due to a nutritional supplement in a bone marrow transplant recipient with GVH disease
Authors: L. Millon, F. Grenouillet, J. Crouzet, F. Larosa, S. Loewert, A. P. Bellanger, E. Deconinck, F. Legrand |
Pages 665-668: Nourseothricin acetyltransferase: a new dominant selectable marker for the dermatophyte Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Authors: Mohamed Mahdi Alshahnl, Koichi Makimura, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Kosuke Takatori, Takuo Sawada |
Pages 669-674: Multicenter surveillance of species distribution and antifungal susceptibilities of Candida bloodstream isolates in South Korea
Authors: Sook-In Jung, Jong Hee Shin, Jae-Hoon Song, Kyong Ran Peck, Kyungwon Lee, Mi-Na Kim, Hyun Ha Chang, Chi Sook Moon |
Pages 675-678: Isolation of Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGIII, from Corymbia ficifolia detritus in Colombia
Authors: P. Escandón, A. Sánchez, C. Firacative, E. Castañeda |
 Hello young ISHAM-members!
We have the following news for you:
The number of local representatives for The Young ISHAM is increasing monthly. This month we welcome Luciana Karayan from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she will be the representative for Argentina. You can e-mail her on luciana.youngisham@gmail.com. Please visit our website at http://www.young.isham.org/ to find out who already became a representative for The Young ISHAM. In the case that you would like to join our team and want to become a representative for your country, please e-mail Ela Lackner (ela.youngisham@gmail.com) or Ferry (ferry.youngisham@gmail.com).
During the past months we have received quite some e-mails from mainly medical students who found the age-limit of 35 years too low and therefore we decided to raise this to 40 years young. So, if you are a member of ISHAM and 40 years or younger you are now automatically a member of The Young ISHAM.
If you are not yet a member of the Young ISHAM but want to become a member, please visit our website http://www.young.isham.org/ or go directly to http://shop.isham.org/ were you can now become easily a member via our new payment system. This new system is more convenient than the previous one.
In 2012, ISHAM is organizing the next ISHAM congress in Berlin, Germany, and The Young ISHAM will be part of that to represent the young medical mycologists. If you have a sparkling bright idea to bring The Young ISHAM in the spotlights during the congress (but also before that time), please let us know!
Greetings from The Young ISHAM team!
Hamid, Prakash, Ana, Luciana, Anne-Lise, Luciana, Kasper, Ela and Ferry
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