The Symposium went very well with over 60 people attending from all walks of life. I would certainly hope that we don't wait another ten years before we hold the second Website Symposium.

The early session was devoted to the website while the second session concentrated on some of the research currently underway in David Denning's research groups at the South Manchester University Hospital Trust at Wythenshawe and at Salford Royal Hospitals.

Geoff Scott began the early session with an introduction to the Fungal Research Trust and an interesting profile of David Denning: The Early Years, followed by myself with a short history of the Aspergillus Website and a summary of progress up to date. David Denning presented a short explanation and illustration of the difficulties of diagnosing and treating Aspergillosis followed by Jenny Bartholomew talking about how and why we have moved to extensive use of databases to store much of the information we provide, and how we increasingly provide educational multimedia content.

The session was completed by a joint presentation by myself and June Henriksen of the Aspergillus Trust on the numbers of laypeople visiting the website (50% of newly registered people are laypeople) and the need for specialised information to meet their needs.

The usage figures for January 2008 are our best ever and were recorded before the recent intense interest from the media in aspergillosis of premature children following the 2 recent cases at the Salford Royal.