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Why join the ISDCI

ISDCI is a moderately sized, welcoming, and friendly scientific Society. Our meetings bring together scientists, postdoctoral researchers, and students from around the world whose interests include the immune or internal defence systems in a wide range of organisms. The Society is a vehicle through which this diverse community can meet, interact, and collaborate. Benefits of being a member include reduced registration rates at the triennial international Congresses, opportunities for travel bursaries for student and postdoctoral members to attend these Congresses, free on-line access to the Society journal, Developmental and Comparative Immunology, invitations to the online ISDCI seminar series, and regular news updates through the Society electronic newsletter.

The more members we have, the stronger we stand! If you have not done so, please encourage your students, postdocs, and associates to become members of the Society. Enquiries about memberships should be sent via the website to the ISDCI Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Jason W. Holland.

Members profit from access to the members only part of the website which provides, among other benefits, access to recordings of the online ISDCI seminar series, interesting photos from our triennial international meetings, front covers of historical issues of the DCI journal, and additional interesting facts and figures related to the Society.

Our current membership is approximately 360, and is international with some 34 nationalities represented.

 

To join ISDCI please fill out the: membership application form.

To renew your ISDCI membership please subscribe.

Membership is renewed in January of every year according to your membership plan.

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The regular membership fees are:

• MSc or PhD students:  $40 (US) per year 
• Senior (PI) members and Postdoctoral researchers: $60 (US) per year 

Our Society also offers a 15% discount deals in membership fees to regular members as well as their lab members. The options are as follows:

• MSc or PhD student:  $102 (US) for 3 years
• Senior (PI) member: $153 (US) for 3 years; $255 (US) for 5 years
• Group memberships; for this option the PI is able to name the lab members and change their names on a yearly basis by sending an e-mail to ISDCI Secretary-Treasurer: 
  • 1 PI + 3 students: $255 (US) for 3 years
  • 1 PI + 5 students: $323 (US) for 3 years
  • 2 PI + 3 students: $408 (US) for 3 years
  • 2 PI + 5 students: $476 (US) for 3 years

These fees include an online electronic subscription to our official Journal, Developmental and Comparative Immunology. An optional print subscription to Developmental and Comparative Immunology is available for $40 (US) extra.

Please, consider supporting the Society on a regular basis. The money collected from the subscriptions will be used to establish bursaries that can be distributed on a yearly basis; thus, not only for the year of our international Congress. Any student who is a member, including those added through a ‘Group membership’, or students whose PI is a member, will be eligible. See further information on how to apply at
Bursaries – ISDCI

Enquires about memberships should be sent to the ISDCI Secretary-Treasurer

 

The early days

Below a short sound track from a course entitled “Cell Cooperation in Immunobiology” that was published in 1974 by Elsevier / North-Holland / Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam. This course consisted of a series of approximately 30 slides and a cassette tape with the spoken text by Brian Solomon. It illustrates what we knew about immunology around the time that ISDCI was founded. Moreover, it shows that Brian Solomon was an internationally recognized immunologist 40-45 years ago.

Click here for a sound track of the Immunobiology Course 1974 Speaker: Brian Solomon: “Cell Cooperation in Immunology”