Dear EAFP members and other interested parties,

We are very pleased to confirm that the 18th Joint Conference of the German, Austrian and Swiss Branches of the European Association of Fish Pathologists (EAFP), will take place from 05 to 07 October 2022 in Hanover, Germany. The conference venue will be the Hävermeier & Sander Hall of the Ecological Trade and Conference Centre Werkhof Hannover-Nordstadt, not far from the Leibniz University of Hanover. An excursion is planned for 08 October 2022.

The scientific programme of the meeting has the heading “Research and service for healthy fish”. The event will focus on contributions on diagnosis, pathogens, prophylaxis and therapy of pathogen-related and non-pathogen-related diseases in edible and ornamental fish and other aquatic animals, fish disease control and animal welfare in aquaculture.

The conference is also intended to specifically promote young scientists who are at the beginning of their careers. For this reason, the best posters and presentations by young scientists will each be awarded the Wilhelm Schäperclaus Promotion Prize, which will be awarded for the 7th time in Hanover. The conference language will be principally German.

The contributions presented at the conference will then be published in a conference volume. The online registration for participants and to submit abstracts for oral and poster contributions is now available on the designed website: please click here.

Dick Kleingeld
EAFP BO Germany