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The official newsletter for FEMS Affiliates
A F F I L I AT E S L E T T E RDecember 2011
ERRATUM
ANNOUNCEMENT
The FEMS Central Office will be closed from Monday, Decem-ber 26, 2011 to Friday, December 30, 2011.
Regular working hours will resume on Mon-day, January 2, 2012.
We wish you all Happy Holidays!
FEMS Affiliates Letter , November 2011:
It was reported in the last issue of the FEMS Affiliates Letter that the next FEMS Congress will be held on 21-27 July 2013.The date should be 21-25 July 2013. Our excuses for this error.
Year 2011 is another important year for FEMS. The highlights of the year include the biennial FEMS Congress, a new Publications Manager, additional communications tools and a new member society.
The year started with a new FEMS social media channel. FEMS on Face-book was launched before the end of 2010 and officially took off in the beginning of 2011. This means more ways to connect to FEMS and reach microbiologists all over the world. In addition, the FEMS Affiliates Letter got a makeover. It is now offered in 3 different digital versions -- PDF, EPUB and Pageturn -- and contains more pages.
The second quarter of the year was marked with events here and there. In April, FEMS was at the Centenary of the Dutch Society for Microbiology in Papendal, The Netherlands. In June, the FEMS booth was present during the ESPID Congress in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Before the month of June ended, the FEMS booth was again put up at the FEMS Congress in Geneva, Swit-zerland. The said congress is the 4th event of its kind organised by FEMS. It has largest number of participants of all FEMS congresses.
Just last month, you received the latest information on the next FEMS
Congress. This will be held on July 21-25, 2013 in Leipzig, Germany.
Late September, the FEMS Executive Board and Society Delegates met in Leuven, Belgium for the annual Council Meeting.
This event marked the last day of Dr Fergus Priest (UK) as Publica-tions Manager and formally hailed Dr James Prosser (UK) to serve in his place.
Elections were also held for the positions of Secretary-General and Grants Secretary. Next year in Sep-tember, Drs Stefano Donadio (Italy) and Jaroslav Spizek (Czech Republic) will formally start as Secretary-Gener-al and Grants Secretary respectively.
FEMS was also recently joined by the Italian Society for Agriculture, Food and Environmental Microbiology (So-cieta Italiana di Microbiologia Agro-Alimentare e Ambientale [SIMTREA]) as a full-fledged member society.
2011 was quite a busy year but there is more to accomplish when 2012 be-gins and we hope you will join us in all our endeavors and undertakings in the year to come.
For the freshest FEMS-related news, follow us on Twitter and connect with us on Facebook.
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The Dutch Society for Microbiology (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microbiologie) is now formally named the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microbiologie). This is in commemoration of its 100th year of existence.
The distinction was awarded by the Queen’s Commis-sioner in the Province of South Holland Mr Jan Frans-sen on December 15, 2011 at the Kluyver Laboratory on Julianalaan in Delft, The Netherlands.
To celebrate the event, several activities -- a lunch, visit to the Beijerink museum and get-together drinks -- were prepared.
The Dutch Society for Microbiology is a member-soci-ety of FEMS and caters to microbiologists not only in The Netherlands but in the Flanders region as well. It consists of around 1200 members in The Netherlands and Belgium.
The Federation of European Microbiological Societies joined the Life Sci-ences Momentum (LSM) 2011 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands last Novem-ber 22.
The LSM is an annual affair for all who are interested in the field of life sciences in The Netherlands. Going on for more than a decade, it has been an important part in the yearly calendar of scientists, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, industry representatives, NGOs, journalists and students who are into the field.
This year’s event is the eleventh to date and focused on the topic “Science for Society” with Dr Craig Venter as Special Guest. The concentration was on the benefits of life sciences research for patients, consumers, compa-nies and the environment.
FEMS was presented during the lunch break with a powerpoint presenta-tion.
Top: Mr Jan Franssen hands NVvM the predicate.Bottom: Mr Jan Franssen gives a speech as the Queen’s representative.
Top and bottom: Images taken during LSM 2011.
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FEMS sponsors a heap of microbiology-related meetings each year as part of its mission as the voice of microbiology in Europe. Aside from those meet-ings, FEMS also hosts or joins other events as part of its promotional activities.
In this map, you will find the meetings we sponsored and conferences we joined this year.
FEMS 2011
NCY2011
ESPID2011
LSM2011
NVvM100
Lactic Acid Bacteria Symposium
Biofilms in Nasocomial Fungal Infections
HFP2011
Int’l Fungal Cell Wall Meeting
Human Microbiome
Nat’l Congress for Clinical Microbiology
RRP6
VAAM2011
FEMS-Leopoldina Symposium 2011
Ecology of Soil Microorganisms
European Workshop on Bacterial Respiratory Chains
Int’l Cytomegalovirus Workshop
Fighting Infections, a British-Scandinavian Microbiology
Meeting
Multi-Drug Efflux Systems
7th ISAM
23rd SSM Meeting
Enzymes in the Environment
Int’l Conference on Alpine Microbiology
Int’l Lancefield Symposium
ISSM2011
Nat’l ISV Congress
IBBS15
SIBGBM Nat’l Meeting
Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms
Power of Fungi
Balkan Congress of Microbiology
Symposium of the Danish Microbiological Society
38th FEMS Council Meeting
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March 2011 June 2011 September 2011
December 2011
Tuberculosis is at the heart of the new issue of the FEMS Focus.
Just like the three previous copies, it also ze-roes in on an important and hot topic. What makes this number quite interesting is the fact that the World Health Organisation pub-lished their latest Global TB Control report around the time that FEMS is conceiving the publication. This issue features an interview with WHO’s Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the Stop TB Department and lots of informa-tion on the disease.
This is the last edition for the year 2011. Get your digital copy here. If you have colleagues, family and friends who are not affiliates of FEMS yet, please direct them to this page so they can apply as FEMS Affiliates for free and get their copy of this issue as well.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE FEMS JOURNALS
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The FEMS Journals remain in good standing this year. They enjoyed high impact factors as report-ed in the FEMS Affiliates Letter last July.
Aside from the regular journal issues, the FEMS Journals also came up with two thematic issues this year on Antibiotic Resistance (FEMS Reviews) and Ecology and Metagenomics of Soil Microor-ganisms (FEMS Microbiology Ecology).
The Journals also joined in Wiley Blackwell’s Microbiology Open, “a peer-reviewed, open ac-cess, journal delivering rapid decisions and fast publication of microbial science”. The articles published under Microbiology Open enjoy open accessibility. They are made free under the Crea-tive Commons License.
Simultaneously, the following Virtual Issues were published through the FEMS Journals:• Polar and Alpine Microbiology (FEMS Micro-
biology Ecology)• Rickettsia (FEMS Immunology and Microbiol-
ogy)• Apoptosis (FEMS Yeast Research)• Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology (FEMS
Yeast Research)
To welcome the new year, the first issues of FEMS Microbiology Letters, FEMS Microbiology Ecol-ogy and FEMS Microbiology Reviews has been made accessible online. These are free samples making all articles available for open access.
All first issues of the FEMS Journals for the year 2012 are automatically free. All you have to do is check the website every now and then to see when you can read your favorite journal for free!
As added bonus, FEMS Microbiology Reviews also has a free Thematic Issue in January.
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F E M S A F F I L I A T E S L E T T E R
1 March 2012 FEMS Meeting Grants
(for meetings to be held in 2013)
1 April 20121 September 2012
FEMS Meeting Attendance Grants
15 June 2012 1 December 2012
FEMS Research FellowshipsFEMS Visiting Scientist Grants
1 June 2012 15 December 2012
FEMS National & Regional Congresses Grants
1 October 2012FEMS Advanced Fellowships
Full list of upcoming FEMS-sponsored meetings, 2012
Mar 30 ECFG11, GermanyApr 10 EMB2012, ItalyApr 15 3rd MSM Workshop, The NetherlandsApr 18 ES5, United KingdomApr 22 CFG8, AustriaMay 10 Microbial Stress Responses, ItalyJun 3 Europic 2012, FranceJun 6 5th Int’l Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Fungal Cell Wall Biogenesis, CroatiaJun 18 8th INRA-RRI Symposium, FranceJul 9 3rd Summer Course on Mycology, HungaryJul 15 19th Congress of the IOM, FranceAug 19 ISME14, DenmarkAug 25 Microbial Metabolites, CroatiaSep 9 18th IPNC, GermanySep 10 9th Int’l Congress on Extremophiles, SpainSep 10 Tuberculosis 2012, FranceSep 16 9th IMYA, ItalySep 23 CESAR 2012, CroatiaOkt 25 Actinobacteria within Soils, GermanyNov 14 Marine Microbiology and Biotech, Ireland
O B I T U A R I E S
Professor Emerita P. Helena Mäkelä, former FEMS President, passed away on Tuesday, 22 November 2011. She was 81. Professor Mäkelä was the first Finnish woman Science Academician when awarded the honorary title in 2003.
She was known for her research on infectious diseases and clinical microbiology and was dedicated to helping children in developing countries through vaccination programmes. Her most important work is related to the Hemophilus Influenza type B and pneumonia vaccines.
Professor Harry Smith, former FEMS Treasurer, passed away on Saturday, 10 December 2011. He was the first Treasurer of FEMS and served from 1974 to 1982.
