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The Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2018
The Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2018 will take place over four days between Tuesday 10 April and Friday 13 April and will be held at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Birmingham, UK.
The Society’s Annual Conference attracts over 1,400 attendees for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists and you can see what took place at our 2017 conference on YouTube.
Main symposia:
- Microbial metal homeostasis: impacts on pathogenicity
- The games microbes play: competition, conflict and cooperation in microbiology
- Cool tools for microbial imaging
- Emerging model systems
- The magic of mushrooms in nature and industry
- Models for understanding host–pathogen interactions
- Synthetic Ecology: from understanding ecological interactions to designing functional microbial communities
- Community interactions and the living host
- Escherichia coli: The model microbe
- Microbial diversity and interactions in the environment
- Bacterial zoonoses: ecology, epidemiology and evolution
- DNA repair
- Breaking bad: factors affecting the commensal to pathogen switch
- The global virome – the scope, causes and consequences of viral diversity
- The battle for the ribosome – how viruses manipulate host translation
- Teaching microbiology in Higher Education
- Clinical Virology Network
Virus workshops:
- Clinical virology
- DNA virus
- Positive strand and double strand RNA viruses
- Negative strand RNA viruses
- Retroviruses
- The scope, causes and consequences of viral diversity
- Eukaryotic and prokaryotic forums
- Microbial infection
- Environmental and applied microbiology
- Microbial physiology, metabolism and molecular biology
- Genetics and genomics
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