To encourage member participation and participation by young investigators, ISID will allocate several sessions during the 16th ICID for ISID member proposed symposia. You are welcome to submit a proposal for consideration by June 30, 2013. Symposium is two hours long and should include four speakers. Each speaker is asked to prepare a 20 minute presentation to be followed by a 5 minute for question and answer period. ISID will reimburse economy airfare and accommodation for invited speakers.

If you wish to submit a proposal, please do so in reply to this email and adhere to the following requirements and format:

• Four topics and speakers must be listed together with information requested in the Symposium Proposal Format below.
• No more than two speakers within a symposium may be from the same country.
• Geographic diversity of speakers within a symposium is required and at least one speaker should be from Africa.
• Symposia including young investigators (<40) will be given highest priority.

For examples of symposia included in the 15th ICID, please go to: 15th ICID



Young (South) African microbiologists are sought to present a paper on "Emerging and re-emerging zoonotic infections" at the International Congress on Infectious Diseases. If anyone is interested, he/she should contact Dr Paul Brown directly This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as soon as possible.