The premier venue to hear the latest scientific advances in bacterial signal transduction, motility, and related topics. BLAST XIX will be held 17-20 January 2027. Please consider joining us!

BLAST conferences are designed to provide opportunities for newer scientists (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and Assistant Professors) to give talks–these will be 90% of the speakers. BLAST is run by a legal non-profit scientific organization, created for the purpose of holding these biennial international meetings. The BLAST Community includes faculty, staff scientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from academic institutions, private industry, and government agencies.

What’s included?

Registration includes all venue, accommodation, and most meal costs for the entire meeting. Moreover, all aspects of the meeting are chosen with the intent of keeping the cost of attendance as low as possible.

Where is BLAST XIX?

January 17-20, 2027 Atlanta, Georgia, USA Hilton Atlanta 255 Courtland St, NE, Atlanta, GA 30303

Conference Agenda

• Meeting Chair: Joshua Shrout, University of Notre Dame
• Vice Chair: Pushkar Lele, Texas A&M University
• Keynote speaker: Marvin Whiteley, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session Chairs:

• David Hendrixson, University of Texas-Southwestern
• Penelope Higgs, Wayne State University
• Dominique (Nicki) Limoli, Indiana University-Bloomington
• Jun Lu, Yale University
• Matt Parsek, University of Washington-Seattle
• Victor Sourjik, Max Planck Institute für terrestrische Mikrobiologie

Remaining speakers will be chosen from submitted abstracts.