The Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2018 will be held on 10-13 April 2018 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

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

Important Dates

• Early Bird Registration Deadline: 9 March 2018
• Full Price Registration Deadline: 19 March 2018