European Confederation of Medical Mycology
Confédération Européenne de Mycologie Médicale

The 10th National Congress of the Italian society of mycologists (FIMUA) and the 2nd Workshop ECMM/CEMM are to be held in Milan on September 2010. The congress will be the forum to discuss new research results on human and animal diseases, fungal biology, food contamination, epidemiology, drug resistance, conventional and molecular diagnosis.
An educational meeting focusing on the state-of-the-art of two main topics, the pathogenesis and the antifungal management of opportunistic fungal diseases, will be held on Saturday 25 September. Lectures will be presented by a group of leading clinicians and scientists. Congress link: http://www.fimua2010.com

The latest issue of Mycology Newsletter was published in December 2008. This issue contains a Message from the President, news of the Working groups, Congress reports and Announcements. The electronic version of the issue is available for download from our website.

The Congress of the International Union of Microbiology Societies was held in Instanbul, Turkey, on August 5-15, 2008. IUMS-2008 unified the International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology (5-9 August 2008), XII International Congress of Mycology (5-9 August 2008) and XIV Congress of Virology (10-15 August 2008).
ECMM events during IUMS-2008 included 1 symposium, 2 sessions of Working Groups, and ECMM Council meeting.

Trends in Medical Mycology (TIMM) is the bi-annual joint meeting of ECMM and EORTC. TIMM-4 was held in Athens, Greece, on October 18-21, 2009.

You can view the majority of the presentations and panel discussions, that took place during the TIMM-4 in Athens, at the congress website www.timm2009.org. The video presentations, kindly supported by an educational grant of Gilead Sciences, will be available for you to view for 12 months.”