Champions events and activities

Here's what our Champions have planned for the upcoming months as well as events that were held in the past months.

Date	Event/Activity	Location	Champion
7 January 2022	Champions Talk: Sponge microbial biotechnology: shedding light on its many neglected facets	Zoom event	Arindam Mitra and  Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira
27 January 2022	6th Annual Postdoc Symposium of the Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine	Queen’s University Belfast, Northen Ireland	Safi Rehman and Paulina Zarodkiewicz
25 Feburary 2022	Champions Talk: Antibiotic repurposing for Mycobacterium abscessus complex	Zoom event	Arindam Mitra and Jonathan Cox
23 March 2022	Champions Talk: My Academic Journey as a TB Researcher	Zoom event	Arindam Mitra
9 May 2022	Pint of Science (PoS)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Diana Githwe

2021 Events

Date	Event/Activity	Location	Champion
11–12 March	Scientific Symposium on Microbiology and Public Health	University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin	Philippe Sessou
15 April	Management of Sepsis in Benin: Status of diagnosis and use of laboratory results for prescription of antibiotics	University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin	Victorien Dougnon
28 May	Assurance Qualité en Bactériologie	Zoom webinar	Victorien Dougnon
25 June 2021	Celebration of International Septicemia Day	University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, West Africa	Victorien Dougnon
11–13 August 2021	Research Finding Dissemination lecture on “Environmental Surveillance of ESBL and Carbapenemase-Producing Gram-Negative Bacteria in a Ghanaian Tertiary Hospital”	Cape Coast Teaching Hospital	Joseph Acolatse
16–17 September 2021	Two-day workshop to train 100 young French-speaking African researchers from developing countries on new methods for microorganisms identification (Illumina, whole genome sequencing) and bioinformatics.	University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin	Philippe Sessou
17 September 2021	Eliza Wolfson will be talking at FEMS 24-Hour live stream event for International Microorganism Day	Zoom event	Eliza Wolfson
17 September 2021	A series of Champions talks to celebrate International Microorganism Day	Zoom event	Arindam Mitra
27–29 September 2021	Freshers fair at Preston (UCLAN) and School of Medicine and Biomedicine	Preston (UCLAN)	Jason Williams-James
3 November 2021	The ACCE (Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment) doctoral training program is hosting their annual 2021 conference. The ACCE conference is hosted for any by the ACCE PhD students, in order to showcase their work. However, the conference is open to any PhD student, lecturer/supervisor, and case/industry partner.	Sheffield Millennium Gallery	Matthew Kelbrick
20 November 2021	Antimicrobial Resistance: One health overview	Zoom event	Victorien Dougnon
18–24 November 2021	World Antimicrobial Awareness Week Twitter Event:  The event aims to educate the public about historic/traditional antibiotics (such as garlic, ginger, turmeric etc), showing how they are not as effective as today's antibiotics, and that current antibiotics should be protected and preserved. There will also be a small competition element where the public can answer a few questions and guess which of the traditional remedies would be the most effective and could win microbiology themed prizes if they are right.	Twitter event	Chris Proctor and Megan Taggart
6–10 December 2021	The Seventh African Higher Education Week and RUFORUM Triennial Conference	Centre International de Conférences and Palais des Congres de Cotonou, Benin	Philippe Sessou

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