What to look forward to on day two of Annual Conference
09 April 2019
Day two of the Annual Conference 2019 is taking place at the ICC Belfast today. Delegate registration is open from 07:30, and the membership team will be on hand between 08:45 and 09:00 in the Riverside Foyer to welcome new delegates who would like a friendly chat and an overview of the event.
The Microbiology Society Prize Medal Lecture will be held today on behalf of prize winner Professor Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley, USA) in the Main Auditorium at 09:00 by Dr Christof Fellmann (School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA).
Sessions taking place today include:
- Essential skills: Staying resilient in your career
- From prokaryotes to eukaryotes: the origin and diversity of eukaryotes
- Global food security: the challenges for microbiology
- How viruses jump the species barrier
- Intra- and interspecies metabolic networks: You are what you eat
- Non-human pathogens
- Vaccines against bacterial pathogens
- Environmental and applied microbiology forum
- Genetics and genomics forum
- Microbial physiology, metabolism and molecular biology forum
- Virology workshop: Clinical virology
- Virology workshop: Innate immunity
- Virology workshop: Morphogenesis, egress and entry
See the online programme for more details.
The Fleming Prize Lecture ‘Resistance is (not) futile: bacterial innate and adaptive immune systems’ by prize winner Peter Fineran (University of Otago, New Zealand) will take place in the Main Auditorium at 17:40.
The drinks reception and poster presentations are taking place again today between 18:30 and 20:00.
Join representatives from the publishing team at the Society stand from 19:00 as they launch the Society’s new journal: Access Microbiology (ACMI). We believe that too much valuable research has been lost because it is not necessarily seen as ‘high impact’, creating a situation in which research is re-done in multiple labs for no gain. Access Microbiology aims to reduce this kind of research waste, so our publication criteria are based on methodological rigour rather than novelty, and the journal is fully open access.
Programme changes
Please note the following programme changes for today:
From prokaryotes to eukaryotes Céline Brochier-Armanet (Université Lyon 1, France) has been replaced by Gareth Bloomfield (University of Cambridge, UK) at 10:30. Gareth will be talking on 'Symbiosis, cell fusion, and the evolution of sex' in Meeting Room 3.
Global food security: the challenges for microbiology Please note, the speaker of the 12:00 session in the Studio, 'Genotype, phenotype and co-variation: antimicrobial resistance in the zoonotic pathogen, Streptococcus suis' is Lucy Weinert (University of Cambridge, UK).
How viruses jump the species barrier Sara Sawyer has been replaced in the 10:30 slot by Paul Duprex (University of Pittsburgh, USA). Paul will be speaking on the subject of '‘My’ morbilliviruses and other animals' in the Main Auditorium.
Non-Human pathogens Two presentations within the session have swapped times. Joe Chappell (University of Nottingham, UK) is speaking on 'Investigation and Genome Characterisation of Tatenale hantavirus in wild rodent populations in the United Kingdom' at 14:45. Nicholas Johnson (Animal and Plant Health Agency, UK) is now talking on 'Phylogenetics and vector competence of a bovine ephemeral fever virus strain from Israel' at 16:30.
Intra- and interspecies metabolic networks: You are what you eat' Katja Schaefer’s research will be presented by Neil Gow (University of Exeter, UK). The presentation takes place at 11:30 in the Arc and is entitled 'The Candida albicans arginase family encodes enzymes with diverse catabolic activities that differentially influence host-fungus interactions'.
The up-to-date programme is available on the event page.
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