Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are now well into 2019 and there continues to be many exciting developments for EFIS!
At the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology (SSAI) meeting in September, it was announced that from 2020,  the FONDATION ACTERIA will award the ACTERIA Prizes on an annual basis. This extremely generous move by FONDATION ACTERIA now means that even more European-based scientists have the opportunity to benefit from the Doctoral Thesis or the Early Career Research Prizes. For full details, see the ACTERIA section of the newsletter below.
As a way of reaching out to international immunology communities,  EFIS held a guest symposium at IUIS 2019 entitled "Immunity and Immunotherapy". Full details of the session can be found in the EFIS Initiatives section.
EFIS is happy to communicate a new collaboration with BD!  As announced at the EFIS on TOUR meeting in Istanbul in September, these symposia series will now be organised in association with BD. For more details, see below. 
As you will see in the ECI 2021 section, preparations  for the 2021 ECI in Belgrade are well underway, with the first Scientific Programme Committee meeting taking place in Istanbul in September.
The updated version of the Flow Cytometry Guidelines from EJI are  online now! To find out more about this fantastic resource, please see the EFIS Official Journal News section.
I hope you enjoy reading this edition of the EFIS NewsFlash.
Here’s to a more proactive EFIS!
With best wishes,
Andreas Radbruch
EFIS President
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GETTING TO KNOW THE 2019-2021 EFIS BOARD
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Click on the photos to read more about the EFIS Board.
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EFIS Guest Symposium "Immunity and Immunotherapy" at IUIS 2019:
On October 21, the EFIS Guest Symposium "Immunity and Immunotherapy" took place at IUIS 2019 in Beijing. This symposium was a first for EFIS at an IUIS congress and the Board wishes to thank the organisers for their support.
Chairs:
Anna Erdei (Budapest) and Andreas Radbruch, EFIS President (Berlin)
Main Speakers and titles of their talks:
- Welcome remarks by EFIS President Andreas Radbruch
- René van Lier (Amsterdam) –Tissue-resident T cell memory
- Günnur Deniz (Istanbul) – The role of innate lymphoid cells in health and disease
- Winfried Pickl (Vienna) – New concepts for the treatment of allergy
- Pablo Engel (Barcelona) – Regulation of immune responses by SLAM receptors
Short talks from travel grant awardees:
- Lucie Loyal (Berlin) – Circulating CD8+ helper-type T cell memory subsets represent CD4+ helper-alike cells with a skin resident memory T cell signature
- Kama Atretkhany (Moscow) – Immunoregulatory functions of TNF in steady state and during neuroinflammation
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The first ECI 2021 Steering Committee Meeting took place in Istanbul on 28 September 2019. The meeting was attended by 15 EFIS-affiliated societies, EFIS-President (Andreas Radbruch), ECI 2021 Congress President (Günnur Deniz), SPC Co-President (Ihsan Gursel) and LOC Co-President (Djordje Miljkiovic).
The ECI 2021 Team also had a booth at IUIS 2019 in Beijing. They displayed flyers, offered Turkish Delight and had a lottery giving out T-Shirts and free registration for ECI 2021. Notable visitors to the booth included EFIS President, Andreas Radbruch; EFIS representatives Silke Appel and Eva Martinez Careers; and Ihsan Gursel (SPC Co President) and Mayda Gursel (LOC Member).
Updates on ECI 2021 will be posted on www.2021eci.org and via social media accounts; ECI 2021 on Facebook, eci_2021 on Instagram and @2021ECI on Twitter.
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EFIS OFFICIAL JOURNAL NEWS
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By publishing in the two Official EFIS Journals - the European Journal of Immunology and Immunology Letters - you are ensuring that EFIS can continue with its mission to support immunological research and education. Thanks to all EFIS members for your continued support of the Official EFIS Journals!
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The European Journal of Immunology (EJI) is an immunology research journal, focusing on various aspects of immunology including, but not limited to basic research and basic/clinical studies. The current impact factor of EJI is 4.695.
The original EJI Flow Cytometry Guidelines, published in 2017, are a comprehensive resource prepared by flow cytometry and immunology research experts from around the world.
This fantastic resource has now been updated in October 2019!
EJI's "Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)" is available now.
This edition details:
- more immune cell phenotypes e.g. unconventional T cells
- new methods e.g. inflammasome detection, single cell genomics
- detailed data analysis including AI, automation
Use EJI’s flow cytometry guidelines for your immunological experiments, both experimental set-up and when writing the methods to indicate that you’ve followed best practice. Referring to the guidelines is a great space and time saver.
The editorial team (ejied@wiley.com) also welcomes your suggestions for reviews.
Immunology Letters provides a vehicle for the speedy publication of experimental papers, (mini)Reviews and Letters to the Editor addressing all aspects of molecular and cellular immunology. The current impact factor of Immunology Letters is 2.552.
The current Editorial Board of Immunology Letters consists of the Editor-in-Chief, Francesco Annunziato, and the following Section Editors:
- Cellular Immunology and Autoimmunity: René van Lier
- Innate Immunity: Lorenzo Moretta
- Invited Reviews: Vaclav Horejsi
- Tumor Immunology: Bo Huang
- Molecular Immunology: Hannes Stockinger
As of January 2020, Jens Geginat from the INGM Institute in Milan, Italy, will be joining Immunology Letters as a Section Editor. Click here to be directed to Jens Geginat Research Group's profile page.
A special edition of Immunology Letters is also in the pipeline. The edition will be entitled "Immunity and pain" which is being edited by Angela Santoni and Edoardo Arcuri.
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Young researchers in Europe now have even more opportunities to benefit from the extremely generous prizes from FONDATION ACTERIA following the introduction of new prize rules from 2020. The EFIS Board would like to thank the FONDATION ACTERIA for introducing these new rules and continuing to partner with EFIS.
From 2020, two ACTERIA Prizes will be assigned annually on an alternating basis:
- Two ACTERIA Doctoral Thesis Prizes, one each in immunology and allergology, will be awarded in even years for the best doctoral theses in the 3 years prior to application submission deadlines.
- Two ACTERIA Early Career Researcher Prizes, one each in immunology and allergology, will be awarded in uneven years to researchers with up to 10 years of postdoctoral experience.
Each ACTERIA prize consists of €30,000 personal prize money and the possibility to obtain research grants over three-years for post award research projects up to € 150,000, which can reach up to € 200,000 for projects that are pursued by or in cooperation with institutes of less favored European countries (as defined by the European Union or the European Molecular Biology Organization).
The call for applications for the 2020 ACTERIA Doctoral Thesis Awards will open on October 1st, 2019. The deadline for the submission of applications is December 31st, 2019. Full details will be available at www.acteriaprizes.net from October 1st, 2019.
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EFIS NATIONAL SOCIETY MEETINGS
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52nd Annual Meeting of the Société Française d'Immunologie
Nantes, 12th-14th November 2019
4th Meeting of Middle-European Societies for Immunology and Allergology (MESIA 2019)ŠamorÍn, Slovakia, 28th-30th November 2019
British Society for Immunology Congress 2019
Liverpool, UK, 2nd-5th December 2019
Immunology at the Confluence of Multidisciplinary Approaches
Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 6th-8th December 2019
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German Society for Immunology (DGfI) Spring School: March 29 - April 3, 2020
The DGfI, together with IUIS, are offering 3 scholarships to students either from, or studying/working in, low to middle income countries for the Spring School on Immunology (https://dgfi.org/akademie-fuer-immunologie/spring-school/).
The Spring School on Immunology is an advanced training in immunological topics for young scientists with solid knowledge of immunology, e.g. doctoral students in their last year.
The deadline for applications is November 15, 2019 via https://dgfi.org/iuis-dgfi-stipends/
Please go to www.efis.org for full details of EFIS supported meetings.
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1. EFIS Meeting Support deadline March 2020: EFIS and the European Journal of Immunology (EJI) are proud to offer financial support for immunology-themed meetings, workshops and schools that are organized in Europe and are international in nature which should be used to provide travel bursaries for attendees.
2. EFIS IL Short-Term Fellowship deadline March 2020: EFIS and Immunology Letters (IL) award short-term fellowships for up to 3 months of support for purposes of scientific collaboration or advanced training in techniques or methodologies.
Are you interested in reading about the latest EFIS supported meetings and awardees? Here are the links to short-term fellowship winners, upcoming funded meetings and EFIS-IMLET Lecture Awardees.
Please go to www.efis.org for full details of EFIS support.
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