FEMS Circular No.35, January 1994

FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES Circular No 35, January 1994 CODE NUMBER: NL94002 File sizes: Text - 55.5K No graphics files associated with this document The Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) links some 30 microbiological societies from 25 different countries, encouraging joint activities, facilitating communication among them, sponsoring meetings, laboratory workshops and fellowships, and publishing journals and books. This Circular is the newsletter of FEMS, referring to events which have taken place and to plans for 1994 and future years. The Circular provides an overview of the collaborative activities of the European Microbiological Societies. In particular, it contains the report of the 1993 Council meeting, the President's comments, the Treasurers report which illustrates the financial strength of FEMS, a list of the officers of FEMS, details of past and proposed meetings and of the FEMS journals; the latter appear in a total of more than 50 issues per year. FEMS supports many meetings with grants and also supports the attendance of young scientists at meetings; details of the support available and mechanisms for application are described. Planned Congresses of the International Union of Microbiological Societies are listed, reference is made to Research Conferences, organised by the European Science Foundation and modelled on the Gordon Conferences, while a large number of meetings organised by other bodies are also listed. Contact information and news for a number of European Microbiological societies is given and some training courses are listed