Dear colleagues, on behalf of the German Society of Tropical Medicine & International Health (DTG) we cordially invite you to the Annual Meeting 2009 from November 6 to 7, 2009 in Munich. The meeting, jointly organized by DTG with ten German scientific societies and work groups in the field of tropical medicine, parasitology, and international health, will present a wide spectrum of topics covering all aspects of tropical medicine within a broad and interesting program of plenaries, symposia and workshops. The meeting especially intends to provide a platform for presentation and discussion of the results of the work of younger scientists and junior groups. Besides the low conference fees this will be encouraged by the special atmosphere of intimate scientific communication at the venue of the conference center at the Klinikum Großhadern of Munich University which is rapidly accessible from Munich city center by a direct subway line . We look forward to welcome you at the DTG 2009 Annual Meeting in Munich, and we like to encourage all colleagues to submit as many abstracts and contributions to ensure a broad and interesting scientific program. Thomas Löscher and Gerd-Dieter Burchard