Annual Conference 2019 programme online now

08 October 2018

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The first version of the Annual Conference 2019 programme can now be viewed on our website. Have a browse of the programme for more information about the scope of the different topics, as well as to learn when the sessions will take place.

Annual Conference 2019 takes place in Belfast between 8–11 April. The Conference aims to cover topics across the breadth of microbiology, and will also host workshops, forums and symposia specifically aimed to help with professional development and cross-disciplinary learning.

Delegate registration and abstract submission for Annual Conference 2019 is open now – you can register and submit your abstracts here

Here’s an overview of the topics that will be covered at the Conference:

Symposia
  • Focus on 3Rs - the growing role of organoids and microbial models to understand human and animal diseases 
  • Biobased circular economy & bioremediation 
  • Extremophiles: living life at the edge 
  • The origin and diversity of the eukaryotes 
  • Global food security: the challenges for microbiology 
  • Intra- and interspecies metabolic networks: You are what you eat 
  • Microbial dark matter 
  • Missing microbes and the hygiene hypothesis: new challenges and perspectives 
  • The biological and chemical tales of the antibiotic makers
  • Non-human pathogens 
  • Offence and defence 
  • The microbial pangenome 
  • Vaccines against bacterial pathogens
  • Irish fungal society clinical case studies 
  • Fighting fire with fire: deploying microbes in the battle against disease 
  • How viruses jump the species barrier 
  • Virus infections of the central nervous system
  • Clinical Virology Network
Virology workshops
  • Morphogenesis, egress and entry 
  • Innate immunity 
  • Clinical virology 
  • Antivirals and vaccines 
  • Gene expression and replication 
  • Pathogenesis
Eukaryotic and prokaryotic forums
  • Environmental and applied microbiology forum 
  • Genetics and genomics forum 
  • Infection forum 
  • Microbial physiology, metabolism and molecular biology forum
Microbiology Society
  • Teaching microbiology in higher education symposium
  • Essential skills: Managing a research laboratory
  • Staying resilient in your career
  • Research and publishing ethics: What you need to know and why it matters
  • Essential skills: CV workshop
  • Essential skills: Peer review


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