ISHAM NEWS! (14-05-2009)

Dear ISHAM member, a report from the 35th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, held at Göteborg, Sweden, 29 March – 1 April 2009 with 4000 participants, is now available on the ISHAM website under News and Reports. Aspergillosis is particularly prevalent in this patient group.

The Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology at Jena, Germany, has a vacancy for a postdoc position on complement genetics in renal and retinal diseases; see here. Information can be obtained from Prof. Dr. P.F. Zipfel, peter.zipfel@hki-jena.de.

A PhD Thesis by Jouni Issakainen (jouni.issakainen@tyks.fi) entitled “Microascaceae as a Medical Mycological Problem” has been published by the University of Turku, Finland. A limited number of hard copies are available for free; please contact ISHAM at our website, click “webmaster”, and state your request with your ISHAM member number.

A limited number of hard copies of Stud. Mycol. 61 entitled “Black fungal extremes”, containing a.o. some novel skin-associated species, are available for free.  Please contact ISHAM at our website, click "webmaster", and state your request with your ISHAM member number.

The ISHAM-Working Group on Mycetoma has taken the initiative to survey and sequence the numerous non-sporulating agents involved in human black-grain mycetoma occurring worldwide. Clinical specimens are urgently needed. The Working Group has set up an efficient and low-cost system for shipping the specimens; click here for more information.

The third meeting of the Pan-African Medical Mycology Society (PAMMS) was held 25-27 February, 2009 in Abuja, Nigeria, with ISHAM support. The program and a brief progress report can be found in the News and Reports section of our website. For further information, please contact Ifeoma Enweani, ibenweani@yahoo.com.

The next Yeast Cell Biology meeting at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, U.S.A., will be held August 11-15, 2009. Information can be obtained here.

A beta-version CD-ROM of the third edition of the Atlas of Clinical Fungi will be presented at the ISHAM congress in Tokyo. The price is € 105,-, which includes a free definitive version of the 3rd edition, expected around December 2009. Orders are now taken at the CBS webshop