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EFIS News
Check out the website we created for the Day of Immunology 2012 (April 29th)!
+++ See you soon in Glasgow for the 3rd European Congress of Immunology! +++
+++ Abstract Submission Deadline May 31st, 2012 +++
Travel Grants for ECI 2012
EFIS will award travel grants to the value of 600 Euros to 200 participants requesting financial support to attend the ECI 2012.
Please click on the link below to access the online application form.
EFIS Awards for ECI2012
EFIS-EJI Ita Askonas Award - € 10,000 cash award for the best female group leader in immunology
Deadline for nominations was March 1st, 2012!
The winner is: Dr. Francesca Granucci, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca
EFIS/BioLegend Young Investigator Award - € 7,500 cash award for the best young researcher in immunology
Deadline for nominations was March 1st, 2012!
The winner is: Dr. Elodie Segura, INSERM Institut Curie Paris, France
Day of Immunology Competition 2012 - cash prizes to the best PR projects for immunology
Deadline for applications was March 1st, 2012!
- 1st Prize: DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1660
- 2nd Prize: Dutch Society for Immunology (NVVI)
- 3rd Prize: Hellenic Society for Immunology (HSI)
- 4th Prize: Isabel Abreu and Cecilia Johansson
We cordially invite everybody to attend the DoI 2012 session during ECI 2012, where all winning projects will be presented!
EFIS-IL Best cited paper awards - cash prizes for the best original and review papers published in Immunology Letters
EFIS General Assembly at ECI 2012
We are currently accepting bids to organize the ECI 2018 and nominations for the new EFIS board and Editor in Chief of Immunology Letters.
Click here for the details
Deadline: May 30th, 2012!
"Get Inside Your Immune System" on www.inside-immunity.org
The 1st Web-exhibition on Immunology! For all audiences.
The large public has too few occasions to see life at a cellular level. With this first web-exhibition on Immunology mixing fabulous pictures and videos selected from two institutions – the Pasteur Institute and the INSERM, the EFIS opens up the field to the largest audience, on free access.
To explain what is the immune system made of and how it combats pathogens, the exhibition tells us the story of a never-ending fight between the good ones, our white cells, and the bad ones, the viruses, bacteria, parasites and so on. If the immune system doesn’t win each time, hopefully there are immunologists to help!
Watch the exhibition online: www.inside-immunity.org
Available in English.
Interested in translating the Web-exhibition?
Anyone interested in translating this exhibition in further languages has to go through this call to qualify for the EFIS support, and must accept all included terms and conditions. You only need to provide the translation and the EFIS will provide you with the link of the translated exhibition.
To ensure a good quality of translation, each applicant will have to find an adequate translator and must select at least 3 professional immunologists who agree to supervise the translation and to approve the final version. EFIS will cover the costs of the insertion of the translation and will provide the webadress of the exhibition. Please contact hahner@efis.org for more details !
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY News and highlights from one of the official journals of EFIS
News & EFIS: FREE access to the following articles
Medical societies unite to support research in Europe
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.201190023/pdf
Cancer immunotherapy: Progress and challenges in the clinical setting
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.201190035/pdf
Spotlight on Immunology under the Portuguese sun
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.201190042/pdf
Immunology in Israel: Society and research
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.201190048/pdf
EFIS-EJI supported events: Courses, Schools, Symposia and Meetings with a European flavor
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.201190054/pdf
Latest special series in EJI – Macrophage Viewpoints
Preface
Diversity and plasticity of mononuclear phagocytes
Siamon Gordon and Alberto Mantovani
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.201141988/pdf
MicroRNAs and the resolution phase of inflammation in macrophages
Muhammad M. Alam and Luke A. O'Neill
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.201141740/pdf
The full listing can be seen at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.v41.9/issuetoc
New! Classic EJI papers
It’s 30 years since the F4/80 mAb was described and 40 years since Niels Kaj Jerne published his theories regarding the somatic generation of immune diversity in EJI.
Read more about this in September’s editorial http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eji.201190058/pdf
and visit the EJI homepage www.eji-journal.eu for more EJI classics
FOCUS with Immunology Letters
Immunology Letters is an official journal of the EFIS
Special Issues
Volume 134, Issue 2 (2011), pages 103-188
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigens
edited by Pablo Engel
Volume 130, Issues 1-2 (2010), pages 1-124
Signals and Signal Processing in the Immune System
edited by Anna Erdei, Gabriella Sarmay
Volume 138, Issue 1 (2011), pages 1-92
The role of non-immune tissues in guiding the action of the immune system
edited by Janneke N. Samsom, S. Marieke van Ham, Rene E.M. Toes, Nico A. Bos, Jan Damoiseaux, Debbie van Baarle, Arjan A. van de Loosdrecht, Martijn A. Nolte
EFIS CORNER & News from National Societies
Mark your Calendar!
European Congress of Immunology: ECI 2012 in Glasgow
After ECI 2006 in Paris, ECI 2009 in Berlin, we are glad to announce the upcoming ECI 2012 in Glasgow.
To add this international event to your calendar, go to http://www.eci-glasgow2012.com/
Calendar of National Societies Meeting
The calendar is available here.
Meeting Support: See how the EFIS can help your meeting on
https://www.efis.org/meetings/efis-eji-meeting-support/efis-eji-meeting-support.html
Fellowship Programme: See if you are eligible on
https://www.efis.org/grants/efis-il-fellowship/index.html
IUIS News
Frontiers in Immunology
The International Union for Immunological Societies (IUIS) proudly announces that Frontiers in Immunology has become their official journal.
With 65 national member societies of immunology and 4 regional federations for immunology, the IUIS represents virtually all immunologists worldwide. Frontiers in Immunology will publish papers of highest quality and provide the platform for interactions between immunologists. This new journal not only covers all aspects of immunological research but also will give us the opportunity to announce latest news related to immunology, be it from research, politics or public health.
More Info: http://www.frontiersin.org/immunology