Events

ECCMID 2020 will be held in Paris (13th - 16th of April). Please, visit the official website

Due to COVID-19, the organizers decided to reschedule the meeting, the new date is 6-8 August 2020.

ISHAM invites all members and mycology colleagues to the ISHAM Asia 2020 Congress on August 6–8, 2020, in Bangkok, Thailand. ISHAM Asia 2020, co-organized by ISHAM and its Asia Fungal Working Group, is the seminal medical mycology event Asia Pacific has been waiting for: an assembly of world-leading experts from 18 countries; state-of-the-art updates put into Asia-Pacific context; and an international arena to showcase your research. There will be ample opportunities to interact with highly reputed clinicians and medical mycologists. ISHAM and Young ISHAM members can enjoy special discounted registration rates. Register before May 29, 2020, and you will get an extra US$50 early bird discount! Become a member now or make sure your membership is current before registering.

The 11th international conference of Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis will be held in Kampala from the 1st to the 5th of June 2020. Abstracts are due on February 1, 2020. Further information can be found here.

The 5th ECMM Educational Symposium will be jointly organized by ECMM, ESCMID, and ISHAM in Iasi (Romania). This meeting is presenting a novel approach to a microbial group – the “rare yeasts” as human pathogens of significance. ISHAM members can benefit from reduced registration gees. Further information can be found here.

The IMEMA International Meeting on Endemic Mycoses of the Americas will be held from 11-13 June 2020 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. This meeting is co-organised by the Asociación Argentina de Microbiología & Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia and will cover Epidemiology and Ecology, Diagnostics, Treatment, Host-pathogen interaction, Vaccine, Clinical Aspects, Omics. Further information here

The Innate Immunity and Host Pathogen Interactions EMBO Symposium will be held from 28 June - 1 July 2020, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany. This symposium provides a discussion platform for all scientists interested in the biology of infection. Cell biologists, microbiologists and immunologists will discuss in joint sessions recent progress in our understanding of host-pathogen interactions. Talks will focus on common processes, rather than particular infectious agents or host cell types, and the strategies of all major types of pathogens in their interaction with plants and animals will be covered.

The 24th Molecular Mycology Pathogenesis Course (MOMY) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole will be held from the 17th of July to the 2nd of August. The course mission is to train the next generation of researchers to work at the frontier of Molecular Mycology pathogenesis. Registration deadline is on the 30th of March. Further information can be found on the dedicated website.

ISHAM invites all members and mycology colleagues to the ISHAM Asia 2020 Congress on May 7-9, 2020, in Bangkok, Thailand. ISHAM Asia 2020, co-organized by ISHAM and its Asia Fungal Working Group, is the seminal medical mycology event Asia Pacific has been waiting for: an assembly of world-leading experts from 18 countries; state-of-the-art updates put into Asia-Pacific context; and an international arena to showcase your research. There will be ample opportunities to interact with highly reputed clinicians and medical mycologists. ISHAM and Young ISHAM members can enjoy special discounted registration rates. Register before May 29, 2020, and you will get an extra US$50 early bird discount! Become a member now or make sure your membership is current before registering

The Scientific Conference of the German speaking Mycological Society together the e. V. 3rd International Symposium of the CRC/Transregio FungiNet will be held in Wurzburg (Germany) in September. Abstract submission deadline is on the 31st of March. Furhter details can be found in the conference website.