The FEMS Affiliates Letter – January 2020

The FEMS Affiliates Letter is now out. Read the January issue with news, microbiology research, events and more on the following link.

In the last page is the link to the Youtube video with interview with Prof. Miroslav Radman (Co-founder of MedILS) about the first Summer School, held in the Summer of 2019.

Prof. Miroslav agreed to be one of two Co-Directors for the first FEMS Summer School for Postdocs, along with Prof. Graham Walker (MIT). The Summer School will run again in 2020 at the same venue, but with a new Director, Prof. Susan Rosenburg (Baylor College of Medicine), and two Co-Directors: Prof. Christophe Herman (Baylor College of Medicine) and Dr. Ivan Matic. Prof. Miroslav Radman (MedILS) returns as Honorary Director of the second FEMS Summer School for Postdocs.

The Summer School is designed to support personal and professional development through 10 days of close work with top scientists, and to enable and encourage research collaboration across all fields of Microbiology. The outcomes will be to advance and enhance the scientific knowledge and research career of its Postdocs.

The content of the Summer School for 2020 will be focused on the following theme: Microbial Evolvability Mechanisms: Resistance, Biology, and Strategies to Defeat and Detect The Summer School presents a unique opportunity for Early Career Scientists to receive instruction and supervision from prominent academics, collaborate and network with fellow researchers from an international range of countries, and to discuss their own work as well as wider aspects of being a scientist.

The FEMS Summer School for Postdocs will run for 10 days from 28 August to 7 September 2020. Accommodation and all facilities will be located in the host facillity the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS) in Split, Croatia.