SGM Autumn Meeting 2007

SGMSGM Autumn Meeting, University of Edinburgh, 3-6 September 2007

Monday 3 & Tuesday 4 September 2007. Plenary: Food, fluids, fingers, faeces and flies – food- and water-borne pathogens
Hot topic symposium with support from the Natural Environment Research Council, Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 September 2007: Post-genomic analysis of microbial function in the environment
Cells & Cell Surfaces Group / Microbial Infection Group joint symposium, Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 September 2007: Mechanisms of diarrhoeal disease
Cells & Cell Surfaces Group – Microbial Infection Group – Clinical Microbiology Group/Society for Anaerobic Microbiology joint symposium, Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 September 2007: Anaerobe 2007 – Changing perceptions and patterns of anaerobic infection
Education & Training Group Thursday 6 September 2007: Getting it right: risk assessment and recording in microbiology
Environmental Microbiology Group/Virus Ecology Group joint symposium, Monday 3 & Tuesday 4 September 2007: Ecology of viruses
Eukaryotic Microbiology Group, Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 September 2007: Eukaryotic microbial pathogens, attack and counter attack
Fermentation & Bioprocessing Group symposium, Tuesday 4 September 2007: Monitoring bioprocesses
Food & Beverages Group/Systematics & Evolution Group joint workshop, Wednesday 5 September 2007: Workshop on Molecular detection of food and water pathogens
Food & Beverages Group – Systematics & Evolution Group – Physiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics Group symposium, Monday 3 & Tuesday 4 September 2007: The physiology of non-growing microbes
Plus:
Fred Griffith Review Lecture – Professor Richard Moxon (University of Oxford): Bacterial variation, virulence and vaccines
Peter Wildy Prize for Microbiology Education – Professor Simon Cutting (University of London): Ten years in Vietnam
Young microbiologist of the year competition