The National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) collaborates with Helmholtz International Graduate School for Infection Research (HZI Graduate School) and NDPIA participants are invited to the HZI Graduate School PhD and ESR Symposium 10 December, 2015 (ESR = Early Stage Researcher: HZI postdocs at most two years after PhD graduation). At the symposium all participants will present either a poster or a talk.

Link to symposium flyer.

A maximum of 10 NDPIA participants can join this year’s symposium. Therefore, applications to participate in the symposium should be made via https://ndpia.se/events/phdpostdoc-symposium-at-helmholtz-centre-for-infection-research-germany/ as soon as possible (deadline 8 November).

The symposium and accommodation in Braunschweig 9-11 December is free of charge and co-funding of travel costs is guaranteed for the 10 selected NDPIA participants.

Information about HZI Graduate School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research via the NDPIA web page.

Please take this opportunity to extend your scientific network!

The international conference NSCMID 2015 with focus on infections and antibiotics was held in Umeå 4-6 September 2015. The meeting featured high profile speakers providing basic as well as clinical research perspectives. Two pre-event workshops were held 3 September: the Meet the Experts workshop and a mini course in epidemiology. Altogether more than 100 posters were presented. It was gratifying to note that about half of all 170 participants of the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) and several international partners of NDPIA had accepted the offer of free participation at NSCMID 2015 on behalf of NDPIA. Of these, more than ten were chosen to present their abstracts orally and delivered high quality presentations. Also a vast majority of NDPIA members participated in the appreciated Meet the Experts sessions where nine different experts introduced specific topics and led parallel group discussions around topic related issues of interests to participants.

The conference was organized by the Nordic Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (NSCMID) in collaboration with Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) and our NDPIA programme. The meeting was also supported by a grant from the Infections and Antibiotics programme of the Swedish Research Council to MIMS.

Please access information about new autumn activities via the links below.

Thematic day on Zoonotic Infections
Thematic day in Uppsala 151014 (free of charge)
Registration deadline 30 September

Introduction to bioinformatics using NGS data
2 ECTS course in Lund 151116-151120
Course fee 1800 SEK
Application deadline 5 October

Assay development in high throughput screening
2 ECTS course in Umeå 151116-151120
Application deadline 26 October

Metagenomics
1 ECTS course in Uppsala 151124-151126
Course fee 1000 SEK
Application deadline 27 October

After having been accepted to the courses participants of the National Doctoral Programme in Infections and Antibiotics (NDPIA) can apply for co-funding of travel and accommodation costs (not for co-funding of course fees) via relevant event page by accessing https://ndpia.se/current_events/.