Welcome to the web site of the Australian Society for Antimicrobials.
Since becoming an Incorporated Society in March 1999, ASA membership now covers a diverse background of professions interested in the study of antimicrobials including clinical microbiologists and infectious diseases physicians, respiratory and ICU physicians, medical and non-medical microbiologists and scientists, pharmacists, veterinarians, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and industry representatives from pharmaceutical and diagnostic/research biomedical companies.
Although ASA's membership is primarily based in Australia and New Zealand, it now extends to the United Staes of America, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Singapore and Japan.
On this site you can access the Society's Objectives and Constitution and the Committee Members. In addition the Society's Membership Subscription Form and details of the Annual Scientific Meeting can be downloaded.
Members of the Society may wish to download the current and previous newsletters as well as abstracts from previous annual scientific meetings in the Members Area.
There are also links to many other areas and related societies.
If you would like to contact the Society please email info@asainc.net.au.
Current Newsletter:
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Newsletter Number 31 (February 2009)
- Australian New Zealand Cooperative on Outcomes in Staphylococcal Sepsis (ANZCOSS) Study
- Newsletter Contributions
- ASA 2009 Foundation Members
- What's New with the CDS (Sydney Bell)
- What's New at CLSI (John Turnidge)
- ICAAC/IDSA 2008 Reports
- MLST for the Uninitiated (Graeme Nimmo)
- Meeting Calendar
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What's New
More news on the ASA News page.
23-Jun-2009
2009 ASA/AstraZeneca Travel Award Recipient
The Australian Society for Antimicrobials Committee and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals congratulates Dr Douglas Johnson from the Department of Infectious Diseases at Austin Hospital on being awarded the “2009 ASA/AstraZeneca Travel Award”.
This Award will assist Dr Johnson in attending the 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (San Francisco USA) where he will be presenting his abstract "Neutralising Antibody Responses to a Recombinant Mammalian Cell Derived Hepatitis C (HCV) Virus like Particle Vaccine"
The Australian Society for Antimicrobials Committee would like to thank Murray Green and AstraZeneca Pharamaceuticals for their continuing support of the Society.
6-Apr-2009
ASA ISSSI2010 Travel Scholarship: Advanced Warning
The next International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (ISSSI) will be held in Bath in the United Kingdom in September 2010.
The website www.isssi2010.com will be made live in June 2009.
ASA will be providing a travel scholarship preferably to a PhD student or an advanced trainee who will be presenting at the meeting.
The scholarship consists of return economy airfare, accommodation and conference registration up to the value of AU$5,000.
Applicants must have current ASA membership and must have been a member for at least the last 12 months. The scholarship is restricted to Australian and New Zealand ASA financial members and is conditional upon the abstract being accepted by the ISSSI2010 program committee for presentation (oral or poster). In addition the recipient of the scholarship is required to write a report on the meeting for the ASA Newsletter .
Eligible ASA members who wish to apply for this scholarship are invited to submit their application to the ASA Secretary Jacqueline Schooneveldt at info@asainc.net.au. The application should include a copy of their abstract and for abstracts with more than one author, a letter stating the relative contribution of the applicant towards the research.
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