European Confederation of Medical Mycology
Confédération Européenne de Mycologie Médicale

ECMM is proud to announce the support of the symposium “Power of Fungi and Mycotoxins in Health and Disease” which will be held in Šibenik, Croatia from 20-23 September 2015. The symposium will cover current topics in mycology and mycotoxicology with the aim to bring together scientists from many different disciplines, including applied and clinical mycology and mycotoxicology.This symposium is organized by Danko Hajsig, Prof. Stjepan Pepeljnak and Prof. Vanda Plečko with the Croatian Microbiological Society.
More details are available at: http://hmd-cms.hr/power-of-fungi-2015/

It is a pleasure to announce that ECMM will support Gordon Conference “Immunology of Fungal Infections: Basic Mechanisms and Translational Implications” which will take place in Galveston, TX, January 18-23, 2015. This conference will be held in conjunction with the Immunology of Fungal Infections Gordon Research Seminar. Chairs of this meeting are Prof. Bruce S. Klein and Prof. Bernhard Hube. Full information can be found here: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=14930.

ECMM proudly announces the support of the 3rd International Forum on Zygomycosis which will take place on 19-21 September 2014 in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is organised by the ECMM/ISHAM Working Group on Zygomycosis, which is co-ordinated by Prof. George Petrikkos. More details are available at: http://www.zygomycosis2014.eu/.
PDF: http://www.ecmm.eu/files/3rdZygo_FP_0.pdf

After the great success of the Copenhagen TIMM conference in Oct 2013, which attracted more than 900 participants, we expect another highlight in Lisbon in Oct 2015. The executive committee, consisting of Joao Brandao, Carlos Martins, Katrien Lagrou and Paul Verweij, is fully dedicated to developing a conference program which covers all scientific and clinical areas of fungal infection. A meeting you should not miss!

Oliver A. Cornely, President
Katrien Lagrou, Scientific Secretary
Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic, Treasurer

7th Trends in Medical Mycology

Start: 9 Oct 2015 - 12:00
End: 12 Oct 2015 - 12:00

Timezone: Europe/Lisbon

9-12 October 2015
Lisboa Congress Center, Lisbon, Portugal

official website: www.timm2015.org

The 2013 impact factors for medical journals have been released. As expected the IF of our official ECMM journal Mycoses increased. The overall number of citations rose by over 10% reflecting the high quality of research published in Mycoses.
We want to express our deep gratitude to our authors!

Best regards
Oliver Cornely, Jacques Meis and Martin Schaller
Editors, Mycoses

Institut Pasteur COURSE Medical Mycology Paris, March 30 to April 24, 2015
see attached PDF file or website for more information

http://www.ecmm.eu/files/FlyerMedicalMycology2015.pdf

www.pasteur.fr/course/mycology

Pre-congress Course:

HYALINE MOLDS, ASPERGILLOSIS AND HYALOHYPHOMYCOSES
(for 30 post-graduate students)

23 September 2014, Ankara, Turkey

Organized by the Turkish Society for Medical Mycology in collaboration with Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul University and Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Medical School, Gazi University

Congress:

THE FIRST NATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDICAL MYCOLOGY
24-26 September 2014, Ankara, Turkey

The ECMM/ISHAM Working Group on Zygomycosis is organizing the 3rd International Forum on Zygomycosis. The event will take place in Greece, from the 19th to the 21st of September, 2014. It will be in Marathon, about 30km out of Athens. It is a beautiful location, with a lovely beach, conveniently situated near the airport.

Following the successful 3rd ECMM Educational Symposium in Amsterdam, the board offered Jacques F. Meis the position of ‘ECMM Education Officer’. We are glad to announce that Jacques accepted this offer and will be in charge of the organisation of the upcoming ECMM educational symposia, of course in close collaboration with the ECMM Board and Council.