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FEMS NEWS
Hello,
 

This edition of the FEMS News highlights some of our newest developments and deadlines not to miss including our #FEMSmicroBlog writting competition and grant applications.

Kind regards,

The FEMS Team
 
Collaboration Portal for IPG now open

As an Early Career Scientist, do you want to acquire experience in industry, but don’t know how? As an industry professional, do you want to find best scientists to work on a project in your company? Then join the Collaboration Portal!

With the Collaboration Portal on FEMS Industry Placement Grants (IPG), we want to facilitate the connection between Early Career Scientists who want to apply for an IPG, and a possible host industry to jointly prepare a grant proposal. Members of FEMS Member Societies can apply for our grants. Industry Placement Grants assist early career scientists in gain experience at a European host industry. Any industry, including non-laboratory work, can be considered as long as relevant for microbiology. These grants may be used to contribute to travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of making the visit. Support is limited to a maximum of €5000.

Join the portal
 
FEMS Conference on Microbiology coming in hot! Online registration still possible and Save the Date for FEMS2023! 

We can't wait to see you all in Belgrade in 6 days! The final programme is now live on the website so make sure you browse it and save your favourite sessions.

You can still register for online participation where you can watch live all sessions and get long term access to conference recordings.

If you still cannot make it don't worry! Save the date for our FEMS 10th Congress happening in Hamburg (Germany) from 9-13 July 2023!
 
Go to the conference website
 
#FEMSmicroBlog Writting Competition

The #FEMSmicroBlog is opening a short story writing competition to showcase how microbiology touches our lives. The theme we have chosen is ‘How Microbiology will Change our Future’ and is open to any perspective, genre, and microbiology topic. 

Deadline to enter: 30 Jun
More about the competittion
 
Opportunities Board Highlight: Superbugs - A new interactive & interdisciplinary education resource about the microbial word 

The Opportunities Board is the home of several microbiology jobs, events, and useful resources. 
Go to the Superbugs website

This month we would like to bring to your attention a new interactive and multilingual educational resource to raise the awareness and increase understanding of microbial world in, on and around us - Superbugs! The Superbugs adventure begins with the origin of life and the evolution of microbial diversity, and goes all the way through to infection, treatment, AMR and vaccines, delivered through interactive timelines, challenges, quizzes, animations, videos, games and home experiments. Co-produced with teachers and pupils, the project cuts interdisciplinary boundaries into numeracy, literacy, history and expressive arts.
 
Grant applications, approaching dealines!

Research and Training Grant: 1 July

Industry Placement Grants: 1 Aug

Meeting Attendance Grants: 1 Sep
Go to our grants page
Ongoing support is available for ECRs caught up in the war in Ukraine

The FEMS Ukraine Support Grant aims to support ECRs to undergo research and training at a European host institution (academic or industrial). Applicants can receive up to €6,000 for travel, accommodation, and some living costs to undergo research and training at a European host institution (academic or industrial).
Go to FEMS Ukraine Support Grant
 
FEMS Microbes - building a more open future

We have listened to the increased commitment of researchers, funders, policymakers and our community at large to build a future of openness in science. FEMS Microbes is a fully open access journal introduced to help meet the latest needs of researchers as authors and readers. Find out about the benefits of publishing in FEMS Microbes, including format free submission, fair transparent peer review and scoop protection.
Go to FEMS Microbes
 
Poster Science from Microbio22!

We loved being in Belfast and getting to meet some of the poster presenters at the Annual Conference of our Member Society: Microbiology Society!

At #Microbio22 we spoke to many young scientists with a huge range of interesting research on display. They gave us short breakdowns of the poster topic and research area in this video.
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#FEMSmicroBlog: How bacteria can save a frog’s skin

Bacteria living in and on animals have many important and beneficial functions, such as shielding their host from infection through ‘colonization resistance’. A recent study in FEMS Microbiology Ecology showed that specific bacteria living on the skin of frogs can help to protect them from a deadly fungus. Vilhelmiina Haavisto explains for the #FEMSmicroBlog how experimental studies like this one can help us learn more about the microbes living alongside us.
Read the blog entry here
The benefits of keeping your details with us up to date via your myFEMS account

We all understand how updating details is the last thing on anyone’s list to do but it can really pay off to ensure your details remain accurate. Luckily for those who have a free myFEMS you can always keep your details updated at the click of a button. Then you can ensure you will be the first to know about new grants, awards, events and anything else that is important to you from FEMS. Simply login and click your name on the top right-hand corner and click Update Details. Its as easy as that.

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