The EWDA Student Chapter is pleased to announce the 5th European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA) Student Workshop: “Diseases without Borders - Emerging Zoonoses”. The Workshop will be held from April 11th to 14th, 2013, at the conference centre Les Pensières of the Fondation Mérieux, in Veyrier-du-Lac, France.

The Workshop is organized for and by students to promote the scientific education of graduate students working on wildlife diseases in its broadest sense. The Workshop aims at giving students the opportunity to meet and share the experience of renowned scientists involved in wildlife disease research worldwide.

The Workshop is open to PhD-students and residents, as well as BSc- (in their final years) and MSc-students considering pursuing a career in wildlife disease research. Veterinarian, medical, biological, ecological, epidemiological and other backgrounds are all welcome. The Workshop is open to students from Europe and beyond.

The registration fee is EUR 50 and includes full-board housing. The application period for the Workshop has now started and will continue until the 31st of January 2013. All information regarding registration and required documentation is available on the EWDA Student Chapter website: http://ewdastudent.wordpress.com/. Please be sure to fill out the forms according to the instructions; we remind you that places are limited and we can only consider complete and correctly submitted applications.

We look forward to receiving your application and hope to see you at the Workshop!

The EWDA Student Chapter Board