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Intro from our President
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As the Holidays approach and the Year draws to an end, the ISME office and Board continues to be busy planning for events ahead. The most proximal event reflects ISME’s ongoing efforts to promote a robust microbial ecology community worldwide. In 2018 ISME entered into a MOU with the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) and will be participating in their Annual meeting in Hyderabad India in early December 2018. Past ISME president Colin Murrell and several ISME Board members have coordinated ISME activities with this event, including meeting with ISME ambassadors in India and surrounding countries and an ISME-AMI Joint Scientific Session on "Microbial Ecology in the Era of Next generation Sequencing". A hearty thanks and best wishes to Colin and his team for the planning and implementation of the first-ever ISME-AMI joint events. The ISME Executives and Board are looking forward to more regional efforts like this one in years to come, to help support our Ambassadors, promote the ISME Journal and the Society, and to encourage the international growth and good communications among microbial ecologists worldwide.
It has been a fantastic year for ISME, most especially considering the very successful ISME17 meeting in Leipzig, Germany. We look forward to continued planning for future events in 2019, and we are continuing to work diligently with local organizing committee for the upcoming ISME18 meeting that will take place in Capetown South Africa in 2020.
Cheers to all, and best wishes for Holidays and the New Year,
Ed DeLong - ISME President
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From now on you can choose "society only" memberships without journal access (same benefits as before but no personal access to the online ISME Journal). This membership is especially useful for members who already have access through their university or research center library.
Also we have stopped working in calendar year memberships. This means that your membership is valid from the time you purchase it until exactly 12 months later (or 24 months in case of 2-year memberships).
| Regular membership options |
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| Regular Society Member (1 year membership) |
€ 75,00 |
| Regular Society Member (2 year membership) |
€ 140,00 |
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| Regular Society + Online Journal Member (1 year membership) |
€ 116,00 |
| Regular Society + Online Journal Member (2 year membership) |
€ 228,00 |
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| Regular Society + Online & Printed Journal Member (1 year membership) |
€ 148,00 |
| Regular Society + Online & Printed Journal Member (2 year membership) |
€ 292,00 |
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| Student membership options |
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| Student Society Member (1 year membership) |
€ 50,00 |
| Student Society + Online Journal Member (1 year membership) |
€ 70,00 |
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| Retired membership options |
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| Emeritus Regular Society Member (1 year membership) |
€ 50,00 |
| Emeritus Regular Society Member (2 year membership) |
€ 90,00 |
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| Emeritus Regular Society + Online Journal Member (1 year membership) |
€ 70,00 |
| Emeritus Regular Society + Online Journal Member (2 year membership) |
€ 120,00 |
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| Developing Countries membership options |
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| Low Income Country Society Member (1 year membership) |
€ 50,00 |
| Low Income Country Society + Online Journal Member (1 year membership) |
€ 70,00 |
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A word from ambassador director Nicole Webster
It has been a busy 12 months for our ISME Ambassadors, with over €30,000 allocated from the Ambassador program to support a suite of activities spanning local meetings, training workshops, early career networking events, student travel, invited speakers and targeted initiatives in Chile, South Africa and India to grow microbial ecology and the society in those regions. With recent development of the Ambassador program and expansion to include early-mid career researchers, we have decided to formalise the process for appointing our ISME Ambassadors, agreeing on a 2-year initial appointment followed by a 4-year term, bringing the Ambassador service in line with the term for ISME board members. Many of our current Ambassadors have offered years of outstanding service to the program and in early 2019 we will be looking for active and enthusiastic ISME members to take up the reins and continue in their footsteps. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our ISME Ambassadors for their service to the society in 2018 and to remind ISME members to familiarise themselves with the Ambassador for their region, as they are the first point of contact for ISME support of local initiatives.
The Margalef Summer Colloquia “Ecology through the omics lens” was organized by ISME Ambassador for Spain Dr. Ramiro Logares along with Dr. Javier del Campo and Dr. Cèlia Marrasé. The ISME sponsored meeting brought together a diverse, international group of young scientists using novel “omics” techniques to learn about new developments in the field, share ideas and build new collaborations.
Nicole Webster - ISME Board Member
The ISME Journal
We would like to welcome our new Senior Editor of The ISME Journal Dagmar Woebken affiliated at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Also we say goodbye to Michael Wagner and thank him for his valuable input developing and maintaining the quality of The ISME Journal.
Who is who and who does what
Sarash de Wilde - Executive Director
Working for ISME since the launch of The ISME Journal in May 2007.
Sarash is in charge of monitoring budgets, funds & sponsorships and writing society reports. She researches and implements new strategies and journal processes. She works in close collaboration with & under the leadership of the ISME Executive Board, Editors & Publisher. Besides her work for ISME she works for the PROMISE Project at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, as logistics manager of the program.
Sarash can be reached at office@isme-microbes.org (society) or ismej@isme-microbes.org (journal)
Sabine van Wegen - Events Coordinator
Working for ISME since September 2009.
Sabine is in charge of events and in particular, the ISME Symposia. She leads the day to day operations of event management, from the site inspections to the actual event and result reporting. Sabine works in close collaboration with the Local Organizing Committees and the ISME Executive Board. Besides working for ISME she occasionally helps out the Netherlands Institute of Ecology with their events too.
Sabine can be reached at events@isme-microbes.org
Anastasiya Matyushkina - Office Assistant
Working for ISME since March 2018.
Anastasiya is in charge of the daily administrative tasks that keep an association busy. If you have questions about memberships, invoices, conference registrations, funding requests or supplier contacts then she is the one to reach out to!
Anastasiya can be reached at submissions@isme-microbes.org
Anastasiya, Sarash, Sabine. Leipzig 2018
ISME Office wishes everyone happy holidays!
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