ISHAM NEWS! (23-4-2009)

The ISHAM General Assembly will take place at the congress in Tokyo on May 28, 2009, at 10.45 AM; see the program of the congress here. The Agenda can be found here.

We also would like to draw your attention to the meeting for ISHAM-affiliated societies, for which you can find the agenda here. This meeting is open to officers of the societies as well as to anyone else who wishes to contribute to activities in the mycological community. We greatly appreciate your input.

The full program of the ISHAM-satellite meeting in Beijing, China, May 30 and 31, 2009, is now available here.

We are happy to announce that the Supplement-1 of Medical Mycology, with the proceedings of Advances Against Aspergillosis, is now freely available in your member-area. In addition, volume 47-1 has appeared, a special issue devoted to Scedosporium. For your convenience the contents of these major publications are listed behind the links.

• Medical Mycology 47- 1: Advances Against Aspergillosis.
• Medical Mycology 47-4: Special issue on Scedosporium and Pseudallescheria.

ISHAM has a few free copies available of the book “Detection of Highly Dangerous Pathogens - Microarray Methods”, edited by Kostic et al. (2009). You may send a mail to de.hoog@cbs.knaw.nl and state your ISHAM member number. Otherwise the book is available from Wiley-VCH Verlag, http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/dt/ .