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ISHAM NEWS! (27-03-2014)

Dear [name], The next biannual Trends in Medical Mycology (TIMM2015), under auspices of ECMM and EORTC, will be organized in Lisbon, Portugal, 9-12 October, 2015. This is the website where you may register to receive future updates.

Webcasts of TIMM2011 and TIMM2013 are freely available online here for participants and healthcare workers.

The 6th Congress of European Microbiologists (FEMS 2015), hosted by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, will take place from 7-11 June, 2015 in the historic city of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Stay informed via the website here.

The BSMM/UCL MSc distance learning programme on medical mycology is designed for academic and healthcare scientists and clinicians in the fields of infectious diseases and medical microbiology. Graduates have gone on to become senior scientists in UK mycology laboratories, directors of university-based mycology centres overseas, consultants in infectious diseases/Medical Microbiology and PhD students in UK universities. More information can be found here.

The next Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC2014) will be held in Washington, DC, USA, 5-9 September, 2014. The abstract categories of this major congress has been expanded with ‘Experimental Therapeutics’, and ‘Vaccines and Immunization Science’ see the website here. On 5 September, several courses will provide attendees with an opportunity to attend half- or full-day series of lectures focused on a single topic; see the programme here.

It is with sadness that ISHAM shares the news that Dr. Morris A. Gordon passed away on 1 March, 2014, one month short of his 94th birthday.  Dr. Gordon was New York Department of Health, most of that time as Director of the Laboratories of Mycology and then as Chief of the Laboratory for Clinical Microbiology. An obituary can be found under the Mycological Heroes at the ISHAM website here. 

The third International Conference on Antimicrobial Research (ICAR2014) will be organized in Madrid, Spain, 1-3 October, 2014; see the website here.

 The next Gordon Research Conference on Immunology of Fungal Infections will be held 18-23 January, 2015, in Galveston, Texas, USA, see here.

The ISHAM Working Group on Black Yeasts has composed a special issue of the journal Fungal Diversity entitled ’Ecology and Phylogeny of Black Yeast-like Fungi: Diversity in Unexplored Habitats’. The issue can be found here.