ISHAM NEWS! (3-12-2008)

ISHAM has installed an ISHAM Global Panel of Opinion Leaders, see here. This international advisory board of major scientists and clinicians cooperates with ISHAM in following highlights in medical mycology and transmitting information to the public through the ISHAM website. We thank the panel for their help in promoting medical mycology in its widest sense.

The 27th International Specialised Symposium on Yeast: "Pasteur's Legacy: Yeast for Health and Biotechnologies" will be held in Paris, France, August 26 - 29, 2009. For info, click here. Contact: Dr Claude Gaillardin Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, Thiverval Grignon, 78850, France, Tel: +33 1 30 815 452, Email: claude.gaillardin@grignon.inra.fr.

The FEMS meeting HFP2009 entitled "Molecular mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions and virulence in human fungal pathogens" will take place in la Bergerie, La Colle sur Loup, France, May 2 - 8, 2009, see here. Contact: Dr Christophe d'Enfert, Fungal Biology and Pathogenicity, Institut Pasteur, rue du Docteur Roux 25, Paris Cedex 15, 75724, France, Tel: +33-1-4061 3257,  Email: hfp2007@pasteur.fr

A course "Maestría en Micología Médica" is organized at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Resistencia, Chaco y Hospital Muñiz, Buenos Aires, República Argentina, starting March 2009. Contact: Dra. Alicia Arechavala, E-mail: aarechavala@intramed.ne.

The second circular of the 3rd PAMMS (Pan African Medical Mycology Society) meeting in the Chelsea Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria, February 25 - 27, has appeared, click here for more info. This meeting is certainly also interesting for clinicians outside Africa.

An advance course "Comparative analysis of in vitro and in vivo Candida albicans - host interaction systems" will be organized in Madrid, Spain, February 1 - 14, 2009. Information can be found here.

A course on molecular mycology entitled "Current approaches to fungal pathogenesis" is organized in Woods Hole, U.S.A., August 5 - 21, 2009. For info and registration, click here.

The second edition of the book "Dictionnaire de Parasitologie Médicale et Vétérinaire" containing
entries on pathogenic fungi and mycoses was published by J. Euzeby; click here.

A PhD Thesis on Aspergillus fumigatus strain typing has been published by Hanneke de Valk, entitled 'Exact Molecular Typing of Aspergillus fumigatus - Methods and Applications'. The thesis can be found at the ISHAM website, click here.

The ISHAM Working Group on Aspergillus terreus has a new convener: John W. Baddley, University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A., jbaddley@uab.edu.