FEMS Affiliates Letter, Dec 2012

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AFF I L I AT E S L E T T ERDECEMBER 2012

Also in this issue:

Publications page:• Thematic issues

published in 2012• Pathogens and Disease is

open for submissions

Grants corner:Featured grantees in 2012

Society feature:Featured societies in 2012

Initiatives page:FEMS Events in 2012

Deadlines

FEMS-sponsored meetings, Spring 2013

Invitation to the 5th FEMS Congress

Submit your abstract to FEMS 2013

Register to the 5th FEMS CongressRegister to the 5th FEMS Register to the 5th FEMS Congress

This FEMS Affi liates Letter issue is a round up of what we have published and what the federation has accom-plished in the past 12 months.

2012 has been a dynamic year for the FEMS Journals following Prof. James Prosser’s appointment as FEMS Publi-cations Manager in 2011.

The most signifi cant changes will be noticed by readers of FEMS Im-munology and Medical Microbiology (FEMSIM) since it will be replaced by Pathogens and Disease in 2013.

“It is more than just a change of title,”according to FEMSIM Chief Editor Dr Patrik Bavoil. “The journal has been entirely re-conceived to embrace today’s and tomorrow’s research in infectious disease biology,” he said.

You will fi nd this journal and all other special issues published this year on the next page.

On the page following that spread are pictures we collected from our grant recipients in their Meeting Attendance Grantee hooded sweat-ers. If you are a Meeting Attendance Grant recipient yourself and want your picture to be published in the FEMS Affi liates Letter, please send your images wearing the hoodie to [email protected].

FEMS stands for the Federation of European Microbiological Societies. It unifi es not only microbiologi-

cal knowledge but microbiologists themselves. At the moment, FEMS has 48 society members from 36 European countries. The profi les of some of these member societies have been published in the FEMS Affi liates Letter this year and can be found on the third page spread.

FEMS was also big on events this year. Aside from the annual FEMS Council Meeting, the Coinfections meeting in Halle, Germany was organised by the European Academy of Microbiology while microbiology experts also met in Brussels, Belgium for the Impact of Microbiology event organised by the European Microbiology Forum. Also in April, the 100th FEMS Executive Board meeting was held in Konstanz, Germany where current FEMS Presi-dent Bernhard Schink comes from.

Some photos from these events can be found on pages 8 and 9.

As regulars to every issue, a list of deadlines and FEMS-sponsored meetings can be found on the back page. You will also fi nd the leafl et for the 5th FEMS Congress in Leipzig, Germany which will be held in the summer of next year (21-25 July 2013). FEMS congresses are held every two years and certainly, it will be our big-gest event next year so come and join us!

Read on and join us in retracing our steps this year. Thank you for your continued support!

Retracing our steps in 2012


F E M S A F F I L I A T E S L E T T E R , D E C 2 0 1 2

P U B L I C AT I O N S PA G E

FEMS Microbiology Ecology published a Special Issue on Polar and Alpine Microbiology in November.

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology published a Thematic Issue titled Biofi lms II in July.

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology published a Thematic Issue titled Rickettsia and other in-tracellular bacteria in February.

FEMS Microbiology Reviews opened the year with a Thematic Issue on Microbial Development in January.

FEMS Yeast Research published a Thematic Issue titled Metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and systems biology and other intra-cellular bacteria in March.

FEMS Microbiology Reviews pub-lished a Thematic Issue on Intracellular Pathogens and Persistence in May.



P U B L I C AT I O N S PA G E

Pathogens and Disease opened for submissionson 1 August 2012.

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology’s last issue is published in December 2012. Submissions are no longer accepted for this journal.

FEMS Microbiology Ecology published a Special Issue on Subsurface Microbiology in July.

With 7 thematic issues, 7 virtual issues, around 2200 submissions that resulted in more than 800 published manuscripts and a new journal to boot, it was a productive year for FEMS Publications!

Click on the given journals to access the thematic issues. Contribute to the FEMS Journals and give back to the scientifi c community.



G R A N T S CO R N E R

Gyozo KajanMember, Hungarian Society

for Microbiology

Meeting: 10th Int’l Adenovirus

Meeting, Sweden

Marnix MedemaMember, Royal Netherlands Society

for Microbiology

Meeting: ISBA Conference, Mexico

Stephanie Braun GalleaniMember, Society of General Microbiology Meeting: 15th Int’l Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Germany and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Germany

Stacy Krueger-Had� eld

Member, British Phycological Society

Meeting: Phycological Society Meeting, USAMeeting: Phycological Society Meeting, USA



G R A N T S CO R N E R

Lorena RodriguezMember, Spanish Society for MicrobiologyMeeting: 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology

If you are a FEMS Meeting Attendance grantee who wants to be featured in the FEMS Affi liates Letter, have your picture taken in a FEMS Meeting Attendance Grantee sweater and send it to [email protected].

Marnix MedemaMember, Royal Netherlands Society

for Microbiology

Meeting: ISBA Conference, Mexico

Marton VidovskyMember, Hungarian Society for MicrobiologyMeeting: 10th Int’l Adenovirus Meeting, Sweden

Stephanie Braun GalleaniMember, Society of General Microbiology Meeting: 15th Int’l Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Germany

Britta StadelmannMember, Swedish Society for MicrobiologyMeeting: 4th Int’l Crypto-sporidium & Giardia Conference, New Zealand

Josko KaliternaMember, Croatian Microbiological SocietyMeeting: 8th Int’l Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases, Spain

Member, Croatian Microbiological SocietyMeeting: 8th Int’l Workshop on Grapevine

and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Germany

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International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society(Global)

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S O C I E T Y F E AT U R E

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Society of Microbiologistsof Ukraine


S O C I E T Y F E AT U R E



I N I T I AT I V E S

Impact of MicrobiologyBrussels, Belgium

25 April 2012

Coinfections meeting

Halle, Germany

7-8 June 2012


UPCOMING EVENT5th FEMS CongressLeipzig, Germany21 - 25 July 2013(the leafl et below links to the congress brochure)congress brochure)congress brochure)

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100th FEMS Executive Board Meeting

Konstanz, Germany

13 - 14 April 2012

39th FEMS Council Meeting

Toulouse, France

14 - 15 September 2012

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DEADLINES11 February 2013

FEMS 2013 Abstract Submission

1 March 2013 FEMS Meeting Grants

(for meetings to be held in 2014)

15 March 2013FEMS 2013 Congress Grants

1 April 2013, 1 September 2013FEMS Meeting Attendance Grants

15 April 2013FEMS 2013 Early Registration

1 June 2013 and 15 December 2013 FEMS National & Regional Congresses Grants

15 June 2013 and 1 December 2013FEMS Research Fellowships

15 July 2013FEMS 2013 Late Registration

1 0 M a r c h 2 0 1 3International Conference on MicrobiologyBremen, Germany

2 4 A p r i l 2 0 1 3Biodeterioration of Wood and Wood Products, BWWP 2013 | Tartu, Estonia

2 6 A p r i l 2 0 1 34th Microbial Genome Maintenance Meeting Oslo, Norway

2 5 M a y 2 0 1 3Molecular Mechanisms of Host -Pathogen Interactions and Virulence in Human Fungal Pathogens - HFP2013 | Paris, France

FEMS-Sponsored Meetings, Spring 2013

MICROBIOLOGY TIDBITS

Why Is the Flu More Common During the Winter Season?This study presents for the fi rst time the relation-ship between the infl uenza A virus viability in human mucus and humidity over a large range of relative humidities, from 17 percent to 100 percent. It was found that the viability of the fl u A virus was highest when the relative humidity was either close to 100 percent or below 50 percent. The results in human mucus may help explain infl uenza’s seasonality in different regions.

Source: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Why Some Strains of Lyme Disease Bacteria Are Common and Others Are NotNew clues about the bacteria that cause Lyme disease could lead to a novel strategy to reduce infections, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, on Dec. 4.

Source: American Society for Microbiology

DNA Analysis of Microbes in a Fracking Site Yields SurprisesResearchers have made a genetic analysis of the microbes living deep inside a deposit of Marcellus Shale at a hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” site, and uncovered some surprises. They expected to fi nd many tough microbes suited to extreme environments, such as those that derive from archaea, a domain of single-celled species sometimes found in high-salt envi-ronments, volcanoes, or hot springs. Instead, they found very few genetic biomarkers for archaea, and many more for species that derive from bac-teria.

Source: Ohio State University

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FEMS Affiliates Letter, Dec 2012