E-Board No. 62

January 15, 2008

Messages from Kenneth Söderhäll
President, ISDCI

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ISDCI Prague Congress
The upcoming ISDCI congress in Prague is organised by Martin Bilej and colleagues in the Czeck Republic. We are really looking forward to an exciting and interesting program and venue for the congress. I would like to suggest that if any of our members have any research area or topic you think could be appropriate to include in the program, please contact Martin Bilej (mbilej@biomed.cas.cz) or myself (Kenneth.Soderhall@ebc.uu.se).

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Membership fees for ISDCI
Elsevier has for many years collected our membership fees and will do so also for 2008, but from 2009 and onwards we as a society have to arrange to collect the fees. Elsevier will still be responsible for our journal which is the official journal of our society. Dev.Comp.Immunology has also changed its format and will soon also change its cover. A membership in ISDCI will still automtically mean that you get accees to the electronic version of our journal and it is also possible to get the printed version for an extra sum of money. But regarding our membership fees I am sure there are some alternative ways for how to arrange collection of member fees and I would appreciate any proposal from our members how this can be easily and efficiently organised.

Kenneth Söderhäll
President ISDCI

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A new ISDCI officer has been elected and we welcome Jorunn Jorgensen to serve as Vice-President for Europe and Africa. She will also be a member of the organizing committee for the next ISDCI Congress to be held in Prague in 2009. Below is a brief biography.

Kenneth Söderhäll
President


Jorunn B. Jørgensen, 48 years, is a professor in marine virology, far north, at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø. She has long experience working with piscine immunity, especially innate responses. In recent year she has also taken interest in fish viruses and her group is studying the mechanisms providing protection against the aquatic birnavirus infectious pancreatic necrosis virus. Additionally her research is centered on 1) Innate immunity in salmonid fish, with emphasis on the TLR9 subfamily receptor mediated responses, 2) Functions of stress activated kinases in the salmon immune responses 3) Use of TLR agonists as immune stimulants/adjuvants.
She has been the member of the board for the functional genomics program of the Norwegian Research Council.

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