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AFFILIATES LETTER
FEBRUARY 2019
Three New FEMS AmbassadorsWe have commenced the creation of a network of honorary FEMS Ambassadors working in non-European countries. These Ambassadors will help to promote our mission, vision, and activities of spreading microbiology knowledge, and connecting microbiologists and microbiological societies for benefit of humankind.
The FEMS Director of Events & Internationalization, Vaso Taleski, invited the first three new FEMS Ambassadors on behalf of the FEMS Board of Directors and we are delighted that all three accepted, and have been appointed. All are experienced microbiologists, of recognized standing in their microbiology community, who can act as advocates for FEMS beyond the existing European network. All are invited to attend the FEMS2019 Congress in Glasgow (7-11 July).
The three new ambassadors represent the nation states of China, Japan, and South Korea for a period of 3 years:
Prof. Lixin Zhang (China) – Director of State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology. He is also Part-time Professor of Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS).
Prof. Ken-ichi Yoshida (Japan) – Professor of Applied Microbiology, Department of Science, Technology and Innovation, Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University, Japan.
Prof. Sang-Ki Rhee (South Korea) – Chair Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Soon Chun Hyang University, Korea; Chairman, National Organizing Committee IUMS, 2020 Daejeon, Korea; Vice President, International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS).
ALSO IN THIS ISSUEPUBLICATIONS / GRANTS CORNER / OPPORTUNITIES / DEADLINES
THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER
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Table of Contents
• Page 2: FEMS Summer School for Postdocs Application Deadline, 2019 Grants Survey, Poster Prize Winners...
• Page 3: FEMS2019 Congress Speakers, Call for Papers: Halophiles, FEMS Seeking two new Directors...
• Pages 4-5: Curated articles published in each of the FEMS Journals...
• Page 6: Grants Corner
• Page 7: Jobs and Opportunities...
• Page 8: Deadlines, FEMS Sponsored Events, and Extras...
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FEBRUARY 2019
See the website for details >
FEMS Summer School for Postdocs - Deadline
for ApplicationsThe deadline for applications to the FEMS Summer School for Postdocs is 15 March 2019
Confirmed mentors include:
Prof. Miroslav Radman - FEMS-Lwoff Award winner (2011) for his research of DNA repair mechanism in D. radiodurans, Co-founder of MedILS
Prof. Graham Walker - Director of Walker Lab, MIT, American Cancer Society Professor
Prof. Ivan Matic - Director of Ta Ma Ra lab, Paris Descartes Medical Faculty, Co-founder of MedILS
Prof. David Sherratt - Leader of Sherratt Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford,
Iveagh Professor of MicrobiologyThe Summer School runs from 28 August to 7
September 2019, at MedIS in Split, Croatia
Community Grants Survey 2019
Every year FEMS gives out hundreds of grants to researchers across the world to travel, to organise their own events, and for reserach and training.
But we need the opinions of the microbiology communtity in order to develop our grants programme to best meet your needs! So please take 5 minutes to fill in our Community Grants
Survey for 2019
Click this link to access the survey >
Read full interviews with the prize winners >
FEMS Microbiology Letters Poster Prize Winners
We are proud to announce the winners of the FEMS Microbiology Letters Poster Prize, awarded at the Molecular Microbial Ecology Group Meeting (MMEG) 2018 in Swansea, UK.
The 4 judges felt that 2 posters and their presenters were outstanding and were keen to recognise both of them. Two prizes were presented to Chiara Borsetto and Luke Hillary by Dr Kevin Purdy, the FEMS editorial representative to the MMEG conference.
Chiara Borsetto‘s (Twitter: @chiara_borsetto) poster was titled: ‘Investigating environmental antibiotic resistance using flumes to mimic the river environment’
Luke Hilary‘s (Twitter: @lukehillary) poster was titled: ‘Phages under foot: viromics detects long-term persistence offaecally associated viruses in biosolid amended soils’
Geertje van Keulen (conference organiser – left), Chiara Borsetto (centre left), Kevin Purdy (centre
right), and Luke Hilary (right)
Click this link for details on how to submit >
Call for papers: Halophilic Microorganisms
We invite manuscripts on all aspects of microbial life at high salt concentrations.
Topics may include ecology, taxonomy, physiology, genetics, -omics approaches, and applications of halophilic bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotic microorganisms.
All submitted papers should be complete and adequately supported by original experimental work leading to significant advances in line with the journal’s usual scope and policies – they should not be preliminary versions of studies to be published elsewhere in complete form at a later date.
This Thematic Issue of FEMS Microbiology Letters is connected to the: Halophiles 2019 Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 24 – 28 June 2019
(www.halophiles.eu)
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2019
FEMS is seeking two new Directors
We are seeking two new members of our Board
FEMS is steered and overseen by a Board of Directors, each contributing their skills and experience to ensure the organization works efficiently and is ready to meet future challenges:
Secretary General:Responsible for overseeing FEMS governance including the running of general meetings and elections according to the Articles of Association and overseeing the application, reporting and termination of membership.
Director (Business & Policy):A new role to help connect microbiology research across academia and industry and to work to ensure scientific input into relevant policy making.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2019
Click this for details on how to apply >
Meet the Speakers for FEMS2019 Congress
4 FEBRUARY 2019
Pathogens and DiseaseMiniReview
Estimating treatment prolongation for persistent infections
Treatment of infectious diseases is often requires patients to take drugs after they have seemingly recovered because of a phenomenon called persistence, which allows small fractions of the bacterial population to survive treatment. The authors develop a generalized mathematical framework that can accommodate various persistence mechanisms.
Authors: Martinez, and Abel zur Wiesch
PUBLICATIONSFEMS Microbiology ReviewsReview (Editor’s Choice)
Strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance: anti-plasmid and plasmid curing
AMR genes (ARGs) are frequently located on plasmids. Novel strategies to combat AMR are needed, and plasmid curing and anti-plasmid approaches could reduce AGR prevalence, and sensitise bacteria to antibiotics. This review highlights a general lack of in vivo curing options, which, if filled, could provide a promising mechanism to reduce ARG prevalence in humans and animals.
Authors: Buckner, Ciusa, and Piddock
FEMS Microbiology EcologyPerspective
Environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance: assessment of basic science gaps
Historical approaches to managing antibiotic resistance have often focused on individual patients, specific pathogens and particular resistance phenotypes. However, it is increasingly recognized that antibiotic resistance is a complex ecological and evolutionary problem. This opinion paper identifies key knowledge gaps in our understanding of resistance phenomena, and outlines research needs that should help us manage resistance into the future.
Authors: Smalla, Cook, Djordjevic, Klümper, and Gillings
FEMS Yeast ResearchResearch Article
Physiologic and metabolic characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals limitations in the synthesis of the triterpene squalene
Here, the authors physiologically characterized a squalene overproducing S. cerevisiae CEN.PK strain to elucidate the effect of cultivation conditions on the production of this central triterpenoid precursor and for guiding further optimization efforts.
Authors: Ebert, Czarnotta, and Blank
FEMS Microbiology LettersResearch Article
Lactic acid bacteria: from starter cultures to producers of chemicals
The aim of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the potential of lactic acid bacteria as biological catalysts for production of different organic compounds for food and non-food sectors based on their diversity, metabolic- and stress tolerance features, as well as the use of genetic/metabolic engineering tools for enhancing their capabilities.
Authors: Hatti-Kaul, Dishisha, and El Enshasy
Thematic Issue: RNA Signalling
This special issue of FEMS Microbiology Letters was compiled to convey the importance of bacterial extracellular RNAs as new players in intercellular communication, to track the main research directions, and to discuss unsolved problems.
FREE to access until 10th MarchGuest Editors: Olga Ozoline and Jana Jass
6 FEBRUARY 2019
GRANTS CORNER OPPORTUNITIESFEMS Meeting Attendance
Grants - Grantee StatementsDr. Paz Aranega Bou, Biosafety, Air and Water Microbiology
Group, National Infection Service, Porton Down, Public Health England
Member Society: Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM)
Meeting attended: 11th Healthcare Infection Society International
Conference, 26-28 November 2018, ACC, Liverpool, UK
“The Conference gathered national and international experts to discuss current research and clinical practice regarding the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of healthcare-associated infections. It was a privilege to have the opportunity to attend this event and present our work in this forum.
We presented our latest research looking at the effects of drainage and position of the drain in relation to the tap on dispersal of Gram negative pathogens from hospital sinks [in particular, carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)]. The session in particular and the whole conference was also an opportunity to strengthen links with our collaborating hospitals and build new ones, which enables us to ensure our research is relevant to the needs of hospitals.
I am truly grateful to FEMS for supporting our applied microbiology research with a meeting attendance travel grant.
Attending The 11th Healthcare Infection Society Annual Conference has been very rewarding both at a professional and personal level and has inspired me to continue working to generate evidence to improve infection control guidelines related to sinks, water and wastewater.”
Post on our Opportunities Board!
Do you want to promote your event, job, funding or interesting projects on our website to the wider microbiology
community?
You can do this on our Opportunities Board!Here you can find FEMS-sponsored events and funding, as well as many other exciting jobs, events, courses, resources and funding
opportunities from the microbiology community.
Job of the monthJunior Research Group Leader: Germany
Final application date: 11.03.2019Institution: Hannover Medical School (MHH)
Location: Hannover, SpainEmail: [email protected]
The Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology of Hannover Medi-cal School (MHH, Director: Prof. Dr. Dirk Schlüter) and the TWINCORE (Director: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kalinke), a joint research institute of MHH and the Helmholtz Institute for Infection Research, seek to recruit a Junior Research Group Leader (E15) ‘‘Pathogenesis of bacterial infections“.
The research focus should be the pathogenesis of medical relevant bacterial infections including the role of host cell signaling. The successful candidate will be offered a contract for five years. Salary is according to the Tarifvertrag der Länder (TVL) of Lower Saxony.
Guest editors Professor Tom Coenye and Dr Birthe Kjellerup
FREE to access online until 5th March
Edited by: Michael Sauer, Colin Harwood, and S.H. Park
Thematic Issue of FEMS Microbiology Letters:
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EXTRAS
For a healthy planet, the health of all living creatures is equally important. One Health is a fairly new concept that prioritizes an interdisciplinary approach in science — to preserve the health of animals, humans and the environment. It is an approach that can be extended to any problem.
Source: The Conversation
This post is guest written by our volunteer Tomasz Benedyk who writes as part of Polygeia, a student-run think tank that encompasses a large multi-disciplinary group of students in Cambridge, Oxford and London who are engaging in public policy, skilled in policy writing, and passionate about global health.
Source: FEMS
From higher-resolution imaging to genome-sized DNA molecules built from scratch, the year ahead looks exciting for life-science technology. Seven specialists forecast the developments that will push their fields forward in the year ahead.
Source: Nature
DEADLINES EVENTS
‘‘When I realized that it would be possible to write a whole genome from scratch, I thought it would be a great opportunity
to get a fresh perspective on genome function.” - Jef Boeke, Director of the Institute for Systems Genetics, New York
University Langone Medical Center, New York City.
07.03.2019, UK | Eurpoean Mycoplasma Network: Solutions for Mycoplasmas >
17.03.2019, Germany | Association for General and Applied Microbiology: Annual Conference >
27.03.2019, USA | 6th Cold Spring Harbor Conference on RNA & Oligonucleotide Therapeutics >
25.02.2019, USA | Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics workshops >
26.02.2019, USA | CMI 1st Annual International Microbiome Meeting and 1st Urobiome Meeting >
28.03.2019, Japan | Future Algae and Fungi Technology Conference >
Post your Events with us >
01.04.2019, USA | Biodetection & Biosensors Summit 2019 >
02.04.2019, USA | 14th Annual Genomice of Energy & Environment Meeting >
1 June 2019 FEMS Meeting Organizer Grants >
