Focused Meetings 2019

19 February 2019

There will be five Microbiology Society Focused Meetings taking place across the UK and Ireland this year.

Anaerobe 2019: Changing perceptions of anaerobic bacteria; from pathogen to the normal microbiota and back

13–14 June, Cardiff, UK

This meeting will provide scientific insights into the future impact of anaerobic bacteria in human health and disease. It aims to address the implications of recent microbiota studies as well as the continued threat of emerging and re-emerging anaerobic infection.

British Yeast Group: Discovery to Impact

26–28 June, Newcastle, UK

The 2019 British Yeast Group meeting will explore the theme of ‘Discovery to Impact’. The programme will feature a range of keynote talks from invited speakers and will also give young yeast researchers the opportunity to present their recent research results through a series of posters and offered oral presentations.

IMAV 2019: International Meeting on Arboviruses and their Vectors

5–6 September, Glasgow, UK

The Third International Meeting on Arboviruses and their Vectors will attract scientists and clinicians from different areas of expertise who share an interest in arboviruses. This meeting is a dedicated forum that provides people in the arbovirus research community with the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas.

Microbes in Medicine: A Century of Microbiology at Trinity College Dublin

24–25 October, Dublin, Ireland

The discipline of microbiology at Trinity College Dublin celebrates its centenary in 2019 and the unifying scientific theme of the meeting will be ‘Microbes in Medicine’. Highlights will include sessions on recent advances in the application of genomics to study antibiotic resistance and virulence in pathogens, persister cells, gene regulation in pathogens and microbial cells surfaces. The importance of the human microbiota and how it differs between healthy and diseased states will also be explored.

Antimicrobial Drug Discovery from traditional and historical medicine

29 October, Oxford, UK

Bringing together researchers from diverse fields including microbiology, chemistry, botany and the history of medicine, along with industry contacts, this focused meeting aims to reveal the current ‘state-of-the-art' of the field and define areas for collaboration, methods development and translational research.

Visit the events section of the website to find out more about the 2019 Focused Meetings.