March 2011
A F F I L I A T E S
L E T T E R
The official newsletter for FEMS Affiliates
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In the last issue of the FEMS Affiliates Letter, we invited you to participate in our survey. The prize for participation are FREE registrations to the 4th FEMS Congress to be held in Geneva, Switzerland on June 26-30. A total of 545 FEMS Affiliates from all over the world completed the survey which comprise of 16 questions concerning newsletter satisfaction/dissatisfaction among FEMS Affiliates. This survey was open from February 21 to March 15, 2011 . As soon as it was closed, staff of the FEMS Central Office held the raffling of email addresses.
June 26-30, 2011
As a result of that raffle, here are the lucky
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FEMS Affiliates who qualify for the FREE FEMS 2011 registrations: 1. Dr Charles Changa of the National Agricultural Research Laboratories, Uganda 2. Dr Wil van der Reijden of the Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3. Dr Youming Zhang of Gene Bridges GmbH, Germany The winners have been informed through email to contact the FEMS Central Office at fems@fems-microbiology.org so we can inform them how they can collect their prizes. As to those who did not win, thank you for your cooperation!
April 1, deadline for Meeting Attendance Grants
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Young European scientists wishing to attend microbiological meetings are encouraged to apply for a FEMS Meeting Attendance Grant.
Profile of FAF Grantees 2010 FEMS to join NVvM Centen-
The deadline of which is April 1 (for attendance in meetings between May 1 and September 30) and September 1 (for attendance in meetings between October 1 and April 30). Meeting Attendance Grants may support attendance at meetings worldwide but preference is given for meetings within the European area.
ary A partial list of 2011 FEMS-
Deadlines for
Interested applicants are requested to acquaint themselves with the Grants regulations before sending their applications to the FEMS Central Office. The applications are then checked for eligibility and a criteria based on profile,
FEMS Grants
accepted abstract, meeting impact and costs.
Microbiology
For further questions, you may contact the FEMS Grants Administrator.
sponsored meetings
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Who is qualified? Young European scientists wishing
to attend microbiological meetings NOT granted a FEMS Meeting Grant Active young microbiologists not
older than 36 years at the closing date of the meeting Young scientists who are members
of FEMS societies and authors of accepted abstracts For the complete FEMS Meeting
Attendance Grants regulations, please click here
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