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Plasmids: Current Research and Future Trends Buy now! Edited by: Georg Lipps Published: 2008 ISBN: 978-1-904455-35-6 Price: GB £150 or US $310 This volume provides an up to date treatment of the structure, function and application of plasmids with a particular emphasis on current and future trends. The book is aimed primarily at research scientists, graduate students and professional scientists but will also be of great interest to all molecular biologists and microbiologists involved in research or teaching. read more ...

August 2008

August 30 - September 5, 2008. International Plasmid Biology Conference 2008
Gdansk, Poland Further information
The conference will cover all areas representing plasmids and other mobile genetic elements such as replication, partition/stability, transfer, evolution, ecology, genomics, systems biology, medical and veterinary aspects, applied aspects, and bioinformatics.
Suggested reading: Plasmids: Current Research and Future Trends

August 31 - September 4, 2008. 9th Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB9)
Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands Further information
Health, Evolution and Systems Biology. The Symposium will start with a Welcome Reception, a Keynote Lecture and a buffet dinner on August 31 at 17.00 h. There will be a number of plenary invited lectures covering state-of-the-art developments with attention on Systems Biology, Evolution and Health, as well as a larger number of plenary or parallel short lectures. Besides scientists working on LAB, key note lecturers from outside the LAB field will give stimulatory talks on subjects that are of emerging interest and importance for the LAB. Evening thematic sessions on topics of specific interest will take place. The conference is organised under theauspices of the Netherlands Society for Microbiology (NVvM) and the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS).
Suggested reading: Lactobacillus Molecular Biology

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September 2008

September 1 - 3, 2008. Evolving microbial food quality and safety (FOOD MICRO 2008)
Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, UK Further information
Suggested reading: Foodborne Pathogens

September 4 - 6, 2008. Symposium on the Evolution of Antiviral and Antibacterial Defense
Berlin, Germany Further information
Suggested reading: Virology Books

September 7 - 11, 2008. Extremophiles 2008
Cape Town, South Africa Further information
Will encompass the latest research developments in a broad range of subjects including extremophile molecular ecology, metagenomics, physiology, genetics, protein structure and function and biotechnology.
Suggested reading: Archaea: New Models for Prokaryotic Biology

September 7 - 10, 2008. 13th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (ISSSI)
Cairns Australia Further information
Suggested reading: Staphylococcus: Molecular Genetics

September 8 - 11, 2008. SGM 163nd Meeting
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Further information
Suggested reading: Microbiology Books

September 10 - 13, 2008. Brucellosis 2008 International Research Conference
Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK Further information

September 28 - October 1, 2008. 10th Clostridium Workshop (Clostridium 10)
Wageningen, The Netherlands Further information
The 10th Workshop on the Genetics and Physiology of Acid- and Solvent-producing Clostridia continues the tradition of scientific meetings that take place every two years in which scientists from all over the world come together to exchange their knowledge on these industrially interesting organisms.
Suggested reading: Clostridia: Molecular Biology in the Post-genomic Era

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October 2008

October 3, 2008. PCR Perfection: Insider tricks
BioPark, Hertfordshire, UK Further information
Suggested reading: Real-Time PCR

October 5 - 9, 2008. Course and Symposium: Microbes and the Law
Uppsala, Sweden. Further information
A joint course and symposium to be held at the Ultuna campus of SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) in Uppsala, Sweden. The event is designed for researchers and PhD students, as well as representatives of industry and regulatory authorities.

October 12 - 16, 2008. 2nd ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes
San Diego, CA, USA Further information
Suggested reading: Lactobacillus Molecular Biology: From Genomics to Probiotics

October 19 - 23, 2008. 15th International Meeting on Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants
Bariloche, Argentina Further information: lgwall@unq.edu.ar

October 25 - 28, 2008. 48th ICAAC, a joint meeting with IDSA
Washington, DC, USA Further information

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November 2008

November 5 - 7, 2008. Conference on Congenital Cytomegalovirus 2008
Harkin Global Communications Center, Centers for Disease Control,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The theme of CCC 08 will be Public Health Action towards Awareness, Prevention, and Treatment. Planned topics include: epidemiology, pathogenesis, maternal diagnosis, newborn screening, prognostic markers, prevention/counseling, immunity, vaccination and therapy.
Suggested reading: Cytomegaloviruses: Molecular Biology and Immunology

November 11 - 13, 2008. Understanding and controlling infections diseases: an agenda for the XX1st Century
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Further information

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December 2008

December 1 - 3, 2008. Federation of Infection Societies Conference 2008
Cardiff City Hall. Contact: pjmccoy@bsac.org.uk

December 12, 2008. Future Perspectives in Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Berlin, Germany Further information
The 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize. Max Planck Institute - Sanofi Pasteur Symposium.

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Microbiology conferences 2009

January 2009

January 5 - 6, 2009. 4th Annual Recent Independent Virology Researchers' (RIVR) Meeting
Derby, UK Further information
An opportunity for those individuals just starting on their independent virology research career (i.e. new lecturer or independent research fellow) to get to meet and establish collaborations with other virology researchers who are at a similar stage in their career.
Suggested reading: Virology Books

January 22 - 23, 2009. An International Meeting On Cronobacter (Enterobacter Sakazakii)
Dublin, Ireland Further information

January 25 -30, 2009. Genomics and Clinical Microbiology
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK Further information
Training for clinical scientists, specialist registrars and consultants in medical microbiology (including joint medical microbiology and infectious diseases) in the application of current genetic techniques to the general medical microbiology laboratory.

February 2009

February 22 - 25, 2009. 7th ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting
Baltimore, MD, USA Further information
Suggested reading: Microbiology Books

March 2009

March 1 - 6, 2009. Virus Discovery In The Clinical Setting
Cambridge, UK Further information
Suggested reading: Virology Books

March 2 - 6, 2009. Working With Pathogen Genomes
Cambridge, UK Further information

March 20 - 24, 2009. 13th International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC, USA Further information
The 13th ISVHLD will commemorate progress made in the global fight against viral hepatitis and liver disease and focus the field's attention on the key future challenges.

March 30 - April 2, 2009. SGM Spring 2009 Meeting
Harrogate International Centre, UK Further information
Suggested reading: Microbiology Books

April 2009

April 1-3, 2009. Advances in Plant Virology
Harrogate, UK Further information

April 7-8, 2009. The Second European Ramularia Workshop
Edinburgh, UK Further information
Suggested reading: Plant Pathogenic Bacteria: Genomics and Molecular Biology

April 23 - 24, 2009. SGM Irish Division Meeting
Cork, Ireland Further information

May 2009

May 10 - 13, 2009. 7th International Symposium on Shiga Toxin
Buenos Aires, Argentina Further information
Latest information on all aspects of infections due to Shiga Toxin- producing E. coli (STEC), also known as verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC)

May 10 - 16, 2009. Molecular Basis of Bacterial Infection
Cambridge, UK Further information

May 17 - 21, 2009. ASM 109th General Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, USA Further information

May 30 - June 5, 2009. 3rd ASM Conference on DNA Repair and Mutagenesis
Whistler, BC, Canada Further information

June

June 14 - 18, 2009. 5th International Conference on Gram-positive Microorganisms
San Diego, USA Further information
The focus of the meeting will be signaling mechanisms and how they coordinate the physiology, metabolism, pathogenicity and development of Gram-positive microorganisms. Recognized experts from industry and academia will present studies of the following related microorganisms: Bacillus, Clostridium, Enterococcus, Lactococcus and Lactobacillus spp, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Listeria, and others. Symposia addressing major biosynthetic and catabolic pathways and their control mechanisms unique to these organisms will permit an understanding of how this group of pathogenic and industrially important microbes grows and survives in its ecological niche.
Suggested reading:
Lactobacillus Molecular Biology
Staphylococcus: Molecular Genetics
Clostridia: Molecular Biology
Bacillus: Cellular and Molecular Biology

June 28 - July 2, 2009. 3rd FEMS Congress
Goteborg, Sweden Further information
Suggested reading: Microbiology Books

July 2009

July 1 -4, 2009. 3rd ASM Conference on Prokaryotic Development
Cambridge, Massachusetts Further information

July 11 - 15, 2009. American Society for Virology 28th Annual Scientific Meeting
Vancouver, Canada Further information
Suggested reading: Virology Books

August 2009

August 9 - 14, 2009. 13th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes
Montreal, Quebec, Canada Further information
Phylogeny, taxonomy and diversity, ecology, physiology, metabolism and global responses, environmental sensing and signal transduction, bioenergetics, proteins and genomics, bioremediation, secondary metabolites, and applied aspects.

August 30 - September 3, 2009. Bacillus-ACT 2009: The International Bacillus anthracis, B. cereus, and B. thuringiensis Conference
Santa Fe, New Mexico Further information
Suggested reading:
Lactobacillus Molecular Biology
Bacillus: Cellular and Molecular Biology

September 2009

September 7 - 10, 2009. SGM Autumn 2009 Meeting
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Further information
Suggested reading: Microbiology Books

September 22 - 25, 2009. ASM-ESCMID Conference on MRSA in Animals: Veterinary and Public Health Implications
UK Further information

October 2009

October 5 - 9, 2009. 3rd ASM Conference on Salmonella: Biology, Pathogenesis & Prevention
Aix-en-Provence, France Further information
Suggested reading: Foodborne Pathogens: Microbiology and Molecular Biology

October 13 - 17, 2009. Legionella 2009
Paris, France Further information
The 7th International Conference in this series, Legionella 2009, will address a wide range of current research and trends related to Legionella. Sessions will be dedicated to epidemiology and clinical aspects; pathogenesis and immunology; genetics and genomics; ecology and evolution; physiology, regulation, and biochemistry.
Suggested reading: Legionella: Molecular Microbiology

November 2009

November 15 - 19, 2009. 5th ASM Conference on Biofilms
Cancun, Mexico Further information
Suggested reading: Molecular Oral Microbiology

December 2009

Microbiology conferences 2010

June 28 - July 1, 2010. 11th International Symposium on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Further information
Special meeting that occurs once every four years.

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