 4th Annual Scientific Meeting: Online
Registration Now Open
 The 4th Med-Vet-Net
Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at the Palais du Grand Large
conference centre, in the historic town of St Malo, in Brittany, France
from 11 to 14 June 2008.
Online Registration is now open:
http://medvetnet.conference-services.net
Registration for the
meeting closes on 30 April 2008.
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New Med-Vet-Net Project
Manager
 New Med-Vet-Net Project
Manager
Professor John Threlfall has been appointed Med-Vet-Net
Project Manager from 1 March.
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Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health
Microbiology Conference
 On the 27 - 29 April
2008 The Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology Conference,
will be held at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust
Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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Science Communication Internship 2008,
Module 1
 From 28 January to 8
February 2008, eight participants from four countries and five of the
Med-Vet-Net Partner Institutes, spent an intensive two weeks attending
hands-on workshops and enhancing and improving their skills in
communicating their research to different audiences and
stakeholders.
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Med-Vet-Net Short-term
missions
 Tina Struve, a
veterinarian at the Danish Zoonosis Centre, handles applications for
training courses, workshops and scientific missions. One of the most
important objectives of Med-Vet-Net is the exchange of knowledge among the
European Network.
Tina interviews Martina Escher, a PhD student
from the Instituto Superiore di Sanità in Italy, who went on her
Short-term Mission to visit the 1st OIE International Conference to
demonstrate the benefits of Med-Vet-Net's Short-term Missions.
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Expert Scientific Exchange Programme, EUUS
SAFEFOOD
 An Opportunity for
European scientists working in the area of microbial food safety to visit
US laboratories.
The Expert Scientific Exchange programme
invites up to 20 European food-borne safety scientists from throughout
Europe to apply for travel grants to visit research laboratories in the US
and Canada in order to ensure technology transfer, and promote
collaboration of expertise sharing. The selection of candidates will be
based on joint expressed interest between the Med-Vet-Net and FSSRN
networks. The programme covers the areas: 'Epidemiology and risk
attribution', 'microbial ecology', 'detection' and 'control and
intervention.'
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BA Media Fellowship Scheme 2008 Application
Now Open
 The BA Media
Fellowships are intented to create a greater awareness and understanding
of the workings of the media among practising scientists, social
scientists and engineers.
The fellowships provide placements
working with a national press, broadcast or internet journalist.
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OIE Publication Catalogue
Available
 The 2008 World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) catalogue of publications is now
available and provides accress to all titles available for sale in
English, French and Spanish published or co-published with the
OIE.
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New action plan against Campylobacter in
Denmark
 The Ministry of Food,
Agriculture and Fisheries in Denmark has initiated a new five-year action
plan to fight campylobacter, the country's most common bacterial cause of
human gastrointestinal disease.
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A quantitive microbiological risk assessment
on Salmonella in meat
 A quantitive
microbiological risk assessment on Salmonella in meat: Source attribution
for human salmonellosis from meat - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on
Biological Hazards.
Opinion issued by The European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA)
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Darwin Today
 In preparation for Darwin year, Research Councils UK (RCUK) have launched the new Darwin
Today website.
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Goodbye and Thanks
 We say goodbye to Professor
Diane Newell who has resigned her post as Project Manager of the Network.
Diane has been Project Manager since the Network started in September
2004, and led the the project's inception and planning.
Diane
has taken her job as Project Manager very seriously and was fully
dedicated to the network. Without her efforts we would not be where we are
today, and thanks to her input the Network is well on course and is
acknowledged as a flagship for what can be acheived. Her work has not only
laid the foundations of our collaboration but Diane was more or
less the architect of the virtual institute, and as such will continue to
be deservedly remembered throughout and beyond the life of the Network.
We thank Diane for her hard work and long hours, and the tireless
effort she put in, in her role as Project Manager.
Diane will
remain in her post as the VLA working as senior consultant in food and
environmental safety, and will maintain roles in and associations with
Med-Vet-Net, in particular as Leader of Med-Vet-Net's Workpackage 34,
which will focus on campylobacter in poultry.
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 Med-Vet-Net People - Trudy
Wassenaar
 Biography
Assistant Project Manager, Dr Trudy Wassenaar is appointed
from 1 March to 30 June to undertake scientific work on the St Malo
Annual Scientific Meeting. From 1 July to 28 March 2009 (end of
JPA4), Trudy will be appointed 50% of her time as Assistant Project
Manager.
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Sandrine
Lacour
 Biography
Sandrine Lacour is a research engineer at the French Food
Safety agency (AFFSA) in Paris.
In February 2008 Sandrine
joined the Med-Vet-Net Science Communications Internship, module 1.
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Med-Vet-Net People -
Francesca Baldinelli
 Biography
Francesca Baldinelli is a PhD student at the Italian
Research Institute of Public Health in Rome.
In February 2008
Francesca joined the Med-Vet-Net Science Communications Internship, module
1.
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Med-Vet-Net People -
Birgitte Borck
 Biography
Birgitte Borck works at the National Food Institute (NFI) at
the Danish Technical University (DTU) in Denmark.
In February
2008 Birgitte joined the Med-Vet-Net Science Communications Internship,
module 1.
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Med-Vet-Net People -
Danielle Eelkman Rooda
 Biography
Danielle Eelkman Rooda is a manager of business development
at the Central Veterinary Institute (CVI) in The Netherlands.
In February 2008 Danielle joined the Med-Vet-Net Science Communications
Internship, module 1.
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Med-Vet-Net People -
Martina Escher
 Biography
Martina Escher is a veterinarian undertaking a PhD in
veterinary epidemiology at the Italian Public Health Institute (ISS)
Rome.
In February 2008 Martina joined the Med-Vet-Net Science
Communications Internship, module 1.
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Med-Vet-Net People -
Sophie Granier
 Biography
Sophie Granier works at the French Food Safety Agency
(AFSSA) in Paris.
In February 2008 Sophie joined the
Med-Vet-Net Science Communications Internship, module 1.
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Med-Vet-Net People -
Tina Struve
 Biography
Tina Struve works at the National Food Institute (NFI) at the Danish Technical University (DTU) in Denmark.
In February 2008 Tina joined the
Med-Vet-Net Science Communications Internship, module 1.
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Med-Vet-Net People - Maike
Koningstein
 Biography
Maike Koningstein is an epidemiologist working at the
Statens Serum Institute (SSI) in Copenhagen.
In February 2008
Maike joined the Med-Vet-Net Science Communications Internship, module
1.
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