FEMS News January 2022

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FEMS News - January 2022

Hello,

One month in the new year, we are happy to share with you our upcoming deadlines for Grants and Calls to Publish and more relevant news to all members of your Society. Enjoy!

Best regards,

The FEMS Team

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FEMS Conference on Microbiology Belgrade 2022

FEMS Conference on Microbiology 2022 – Abstract Submission Deadline is extended until 2 February 2022!

Are you ready to submit?

Abstract submission is still possible until 2 February 2022, 23:59 CET!

FEMS and the Serbian Society for Microbiology (SSM) are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and to meeting you at the Belgrade Conference in June 2022!

Read our abstract guidelines here or submit via this link!

The Conference Scientific Committee is happy to accept abstracts from the following topics:

- Advanced Microbiology Techniques

- Antimicrobial Resistance

- Biotechnology and Industrial Microbiology

- Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections (Fungal, Bacterial, Viral, Parasitic)

- Environmental Microbiology

- Food Microbiology

- Miscellaneous

- Plant Microbiology

Let us know if you have any questions at belgrade2022@fems-microbiology.org!

Submit your abstract and apply for a grant

Nominate someone for the FEMS-Lwoff Award

The FEMS-Lwoff Award aims to award those that create high quality knowledge that helps solving today’s societal problems around microbiology. Winners receive a prize-lecture at the opening ceremony of FEMS 2023, registrations to the 10th FEMS Congress, research communication opportunities, a commemorative silver medal and an honorarium of €1.000. Everyone in the field of microbiology may nominate a candidate. Additional information about the selection procedure can be found in the regulations and nomination details. Nominations for the 2023 FEMS-Lwoff Award are now open until the deadline of: 10 March 2022, 23:59 PM CET.

Nominate someone for the FEMS-Lwoff Award

FEMS-Jensen Award

The FEMS-Jensen Award helps early career scientists, showing significant potential, in establishing their research career. You can now apply for this Award, comprising a fellowship for spending at least half a year in an outstanding research laboratory.

The maximum award amounts to EUR 10,000. In order to apply for the FEMS-Jensen Award, please read the Award Regulations and send in your application by 1 March 2022, 23:59 PM CET.

Application for FEMS IPG open

Applications for FEMS Industry Placement Grants (IPG) are now open and deadlines are February 1st and August 1st! FEMS IPG allow Early Career Scientists to acquire experience in industry with the financial support of FEMS.

Call for Papers in FEMS Journals – January 2022

Below is a current list of Call for Papers in FEMS Journals. Find more information and contact details of editors by clicking on the link. All journals in the FEMS Portfolio welcome spontaneous submissions except for FEMS Microbiology Reviews (invited contributions, pre-submission enquiries possible).

Help us spread the word!

Emerging role of chromatin remodeling in the persistence and elimination of microbial pathogens, microLife

Extracellular Vesicles, microLife

Advances in the Study of Obligate Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens, Pathogens and Disease

Lex Scheffers memorial issue on Yeast Physiology and Metabolism, FEMS Yeast Research (submission deadline: 31 January 2022)

Making the Invisible Visible in STEMM, Pathogens and Disease (submission deadline: 6 September 2022)

Bacterial Pathogenesis (BacPath), Pathogens and Disease (submission deadline: 31 January 2023)

Microbial Food and Feed Ingredients, FEMS Microbiology Letters, (submission deadline: 1 April 2022

New Poster Prize Winners

These past weeks, FEMS Microbiology Letters awarded prizes to excellent posters and presentations at MiFFI (Microbial Food and Feed Ingredients conference) and MMEG (Molecular Microbial Ecology Group meeting). You can read interviews with the winners below

Grete Raba and Marina Jovanović (Poster Prize at MiFFI)

Ainsley Beaton (Flash presentation award at MMEG: ‘Understanding the ecological functions of natural product antibiotics’)

Marine Cambon (Flash presentation award at MMEG: ‘Chemical cues as potential triggers of Brenneria goodwinii pathogenicity in Acute Oak Decline’)

Publish Open Access for free in FEMS journals

Oxford University Press, the publishing partner of FEMS, has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions from all over the world can publish open access whereby the institution pays the charge.

Recently new agreements with Institutions from Australia and New Zealand (CAUL affiliated) have been made and later this year funding will become available for researchers at Polish Institutes (ICM consortium).

Find out if your institution is participating here

FEMS Journals Poster & Oral Presentation Prize Winners

These past weeks, Pathogens & Disease awarded prizes to excellent PostDoc talks at ToxoUK. You can read interviews with the winners Francesca Torelli and Stephanie Nofal via the below links.

Francesca Torelli (best PostDoc talk at ToxoUk), “Targeted in vivo screens identify GRA12 as the most important common virulence factor for Toxoplasma survival”

Stephanie Nofal (runner-up best best PostDoc talk at ToxoUK), “A positive feedback loop mediates crosstalk between calcium, cyclic nucleotide and lipid signalling in Toxoplasma gondii“

Opportunities in Science

The FEMS Opportunities Board shares with you microbiology events, jobs, funding and much more. Here are our top picKs of the month:

1. Postdoc on SARS-CoV-2 Virology: Australia
2. Five research positions in Environmental Microbiology: Belgium
3. Postdoc in Multi-omics and Genetics of Methanogens: Denmark

If you want to promote your opportunity click the button bellow, it's that easy!

Post your Opportunity

Watch our most recent webinar: FEMS Microbiology Ecology Webinar on Approaches, Methods and Challenges in Microbiome Research

The continued development of DNA sequencing technologies is providing exciting new capabilities to characterize complex microbial communities in various habitats. Missed the webinar? Watch it on demand if you are interested in new developments and challenges in microbiome research methods and what we can learn about the inhabitants of diverse microbiomes and their possible functions.

Watch the webinar

Grants Corner

Meeting Organizer Grants (1 June)

As an increasing number of conferences, society meetings and congresses are moving into online events, FEMS has opened the Meeting Organizer Grants (MOG) to support both virtual* and in-person meetings. Members of any FEMS Member Society that are preparing to organize (or co-organize) an online microbiology event to be held between 1 December 2022 and 30 November 2023 are eligible to apply.

Support is limited to a maximum of EUR 15,000.

*If you are organizing an online event, on the application form please indicate ‘online’ as ‘Venue’.

Find out more

Meeting Attendance Grants (1 March)

Meeting Attendance Grants enable early career researchers to attend microbiology meetings worldwide to network, collaborate and keep abreast of new developments in their field. As an increasing number of conferences, society meetings and congresses are moving into online events, FEMS has opened the Meeting Attendance Grants (MAG) to support both virtual and in-person meetings.

Support is limited to a maximum of € 600.

Find out more

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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, where you can also find events and funding sponsored by FEMS and from organizations throughout the microbiology community. To promote your event, job, funding or interesting projects on our website to the wider microbiology community on our Opportunities Board, please complete our Opportunity Submission Form.

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