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A FFI L I AT E S L E T T ERAugust 2011

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IN THIS ISSUE

7th FEMS-ESCMID Confe-rence in Switzerland to focus on Helicobacter Pylori

FEMS Microbiology Reviews comes up with a Thematic Issue on Antibiotic Resistance

The European Microbiology Forum, creating a new culture of understanding

Grants deadlines

List of FEMS-sponsored meetings, Aug-Sept 2011

38th FEMS Council Meeting

7th FEMS-ESCMID conference to focus on Helicobacter pylori

The 7th FEMS-ESCMID Confer-ence on New Frontiers in Mi-crobiology and Infection will be held on October 2-6, 2011 in Switzerland.

It will focus on Helicobacter pylori under the title: “Helicobac-ter pylori: from Basic Science to Clinical Issue”. All scientists with a research interest in this field are invited to attend. The con-ference offers young scientists and infectious diseases experts the opportunity to dicuss their specific subjects of interest in depth with senior colleagues.

The conference aims to:• provide an opportunity for

transfer of state-of-the-art knowledge and understand-ing of Helicobacter pylori as a pathogen between research laboratory-based and clinical microbiologists as well as in-fectious diseases specialists;

• focus and determine the state-of-the-art understand-ing of Helicobacter pylori as a pathogen and its impact on clinical practice by bringing together the best scientists;

• give young scientists the opportunity to meet and in-teract with senior scientists; and

• offer research-minded clini-cal microbiologists and in-fectious diseases specialists the opportunity to update his/her understanding of the conference’s subject.

The conference will be held in Eurotel Victoria in Villars-sur-Ollon, a mountain resort close to Geneva.

For more information, applica-tion procedure and fees, please consult the conference website: www.cnfmi.org.

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Antibiotic resistance:

This Thematic Issue is FREE and can be accessed

on http://bit.ly/FEMSREti355

This Thematic Issue covers most of the current knowledge about the genetics of the important evolutionary factors involved in antibiotic resistance (i.e., genes, transposons, integrons, plasmids, clones), and how antibiotic resistance evolves and propagates in a complex net-work of populations.

A number of causes modifying these effects (antibiotic or environ-mental selection, biological costs) and how bioinformatic methods might clarify these complex issues are examined. Understanding the complexity of these processes will pave the path for future therapeu-tic interventions based on ecology and evolution and contribute to addressing the global problem of antibiotic resistance.

Images of microbes wanted!Do you have beautiful images of microbes and want them to be published? This might be the chance you are wait-ing for. The FEMS Journals are currently in need of new images to be used in the covers for 2012, like the ones below. The chosen images will be the faces of the jour-nals (one image/journal) for a whole year. The images will also be used for advertising spreads and other marketing products used to endorse the journals.

How medical use of antibiotics has shaped bacterial evolution

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F E M S A F F I L I A T E S L E T T E R

The European Microbiology Forum, creating a new culture of understanding

The European Microbiology Forum, along with the European Academy of Microbiology, is an initiative of FEMS. It is created for communication, interac-tion and promotion of microbiology.

The EMF has the following objectives: • To make Microbiology more visible and enable

Microbiology to be part of decision-making in Europe;

• To foster awareness of the potential of Euro-pean Microbiology Research for the quality of life, economic development and competitive-ness of Europe in a global world;

• To provide easy accessible and instructive information about Microbiology and related research for the general public, the research community, policy makers, funding agencies and for industry (Info-Web-Portal); and

• To develop a concept for proactive EMF activities and to stimulate the advancement of research and education in Microbiology in Europe.

The EMF acts as a communication, promotion and networking board. It aims to be clearly present in the media, to contribute to its goal of driving awareness and positive public opinion of micro-biology, among public administrations, students, teachers, and the research and industrial commu-nity alike.

Communication activities will be broad and shall encompass the active use of new communication media such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and others. EMF expects to achieve this goal through communication expert driven visibility of Europe-an Academy of Microbiology (EAM) members.

Communication activities will allow EMF to be seen as the first port of call for print, web-based and broadcast media (TV/radio) for hot microbiol-ogy-related topics as well as being accepted as an essential partner for policy makers, industry and scientific societies in policy making, and policy communication.

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DEADLINES FEMS-Sponsored MeetingsSeptember 2011

F E M S A F F I L I A T E S L E T T E R

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1 September 20111 April 2012

FEMS Meeting Attendance Grants

1 October 2011FEMS Advanced Fellowships

1 December 201115 June 2012

FEMS Research FellowshipsFEMS Visiting Scientist Grants

15 December 20111 June 2012

FEMS National & Regional Congresses Grants

1 March 2012 FEMS Meeting Grants

(for meetings to be held in 2013)

Int’l Conference on Polar & Alpine Microbiology 4 September, Slovenia

XVIII Lancefield Int’l Symposium 4 September, Italy

Non-Conventional Yeasts in the Post-genomic Era 11 September, Ukraine

Int’l Symposium of Subsurface Microbiology 11 September, Germany

Nat’l Congress of the Italian Society for Virology 12 September, Italy

Int’l Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Symposium 19 September, Austria

29th SIMGBM National Meeting 21 September, Italy

The 38th FEMS

Council Meeting

will be held

in Leuven, Belgium

on 16-17 September 2011.