Events

• The course will be held in the Biomedical Sciences laboratories at Leeds Beckett University from June 10-14^th, 2019.
• The course is essentially a practical course supplemented by lectures, clinical case studies and discussion groups and is aimed mainly at biomedical scientists and registrars in microbiology, ID and related areas.  It will provide enough information to enable the participants to undertake the routine procedures used in the laboratory diagnosis of fungal infections.
• The course will start with basic mycology and then deal with the clinical features, epidemiology, pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis of the superficial, subcutaneous and systemic mycoses.  This will include the characteristics and identification of dermatophytes and yeasts, serological tests and laboratory monitoring of antifungal therapy.
• Further information can be found here and, the application form in this link.
• Please, return the application form to h.r.ashbee@leeds.ac.uk

This is the 3rd in the series of workshops on AIDS-related mycoses and will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.  The flyer can be found here.

The 53nd Scientific Conference of the German speaking Mycological Society (DMykG) will be held in Mannheim (Germany). 

Combined annual meeting of IDSA, SHEA, HIVMA, and PIDS- Washington, USA- Website link will be provided closer to the conference date

The meeting is designed for medical microbiologists, medical mycologists, heamatologists, oncologists, transplant physicians, intensivists, immunologists, and all those with interest in medical mycology.