Focused Meetings

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2016 Review

Molecular Biology of Archaea 5 1–3 August 2016 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London	The Dynamic Fungus 5–7 September 2016 Mercure Exeter Rougement Hotel, Exeter	Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of Avian Viruses 27–29 September 2016 Charles Darwin House, London	Irish Division Meetings
			Host– Pathogen Interactions 30 June–1 July 2016 Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland	Exploring the Microbe–Immune System Interface 1–2 September 2016 Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork, Ireland

The Society has now completed its third year of Focused Meetings. The topics are always intriguing and offer a fabulous opportunity to present and listen to new research. These small and concentrated meetings have proved to be essential for scientists to network more closely within their field.

This year’s Focused Meetings provided an exciting opportunity to bring together experts in microbiology from the UK, Ireland and all over the world. The programmes were designed to attract researchers from microbiology-related disciplines and to inspire new collaborations. For the first time the Microbiology Society worked together with the Irish Society of Immunology to host a meeting that encouraged the exchange of ideas and findings between these two scientific disciplines.

 “Overall an excellent meeting, well selected talks, enough breaks to network! I was glad to be selected for a talk which gave me visibility and a good overview of the community, which is important for a last-year PhD student looking for a postdoc.”

Elena Rensen, Institut Pasteur, France
Attended the Molecular Biology of Archaea 5 meeting

 

 

“[The meeting] exposed me to new/different ideas in host–microbe interactions, and I met new people.”

Leighton Pritchard, Computational Biologist, The James Hutton Institute, UK
Attended the Host–Pathogen Interactions meeting

“Excellent networking. Important new unpublished information was presented.”

Harriet Knafle, University of Aberdeen
Attended the Dynamic Fungus meeting

 

 

Dates for your diary – 2017 Focused Meetings

ISSY33 Exploring and Engineering Yeasts for Industrial Application

June 2017 – Cork, Ireland

Irish Division: Microbial Resources for Agricultural and Food Security

June 2017 – Belfast, UK

British Yeast Group Meeting 2017: The Versatility of Yeasts September 2017 – Kent, UK

Irish Division: Antibiotic Resistance and One Health

September 2017 – Maynooth, Ireland

15th International Conference on Pseudomonas

September 2017 – Liverpool, UK

IMAV 2017: International Meeting on Arboviruses and their Vectors September 2017 – Glasgow, UK

To register your interest in these meetings, email [email protected]. Visit our website for further information on our events: www.microbiologysociety.org/events.

Conference grant opportunities

The Society offers a number of grants to support members presenting their research at our Annual Conference, Focused Meetings and Irish Division meetings.

SOCIETY CONFERENCE GRANTS

Open to technicians, postdoctoral researchers or PhD students. This grant can also support those attending their first Society meeting, whether or not they are presenting.

TRAVEL GRANTS

To support eligible members to present at any Society conference, who are not eligible for the Society Conference Grants.

For further information, including full eligibility criteria please visit our grants pages.

Shape our events programme

Every year our programme of events is developed and driven from proposals submitted by our members. At this time of year we want you to start to consider your proposals for Annual Conference sessions for our 2018 event and to apply for your Society-Supported Conference Grants.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE SESSION

We welcome proposals from organisers who wish to deliver a session at our Annual Conference. Our Conference offers you a collective audience of over 1,200 delegates from around the world, allowing you the opportunity to share and develop your network in your specialist subject. These proposals are for our 2018 event and must be discussed with the relevant Division Chair in advance of submission. The Chairs and their contact details are listed on the Microbiology Society website.

SOCIETY-SUPPORTED CONFERENCE GRANTS

To ensure our members and the microbiology community has continuous access to a varied programme, we regularly work in collaboration with other organisations and session organisers to sponsor UK and international speakers. If you have an event that is taking place and are looking for sponsorship, you can apply for a Society-Supported Conference Grant. Grants are allocated in two phases each year: January and July. Grant applications must be seen and discussed with the relevant Division Chair in advance of submission to ensure your application is supported.

DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

All of the proposals and applications are submitted to the Scientific Conference Committee, which is made up of representatives from the Virology, Eukaryotic, Prokaryotic and Irish Divisions. This process ensures our programme of events covers a broad spectrum of microbiology.

KEY DATES

Deadline: Friday 16 December 2016

Notification date: Monday 13 February 2017

For further information and application forms visit our meeting proposals page.