Spring 2010 Meeting: Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh - 29 March - 1 April 2010
Main theme: Systems, Mechanisms and Micro-organisms

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Address: EICC,The Exchange, Edinburgh EH3 8EE

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Venues Scientific sessions / Posters / Exhibition / Drinks receptions / Buffet lunch will be at the EICC, The Exchange, Edinburgh EH3 8EE.
The Gala Dinner will be at the Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AS.

Registration Early bird registration fees apply if booking received by 26 February 2010.
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Accommodation: For this event, overnight accommodation is not available through the Society for General Microbiology. Instead it can be booked directly via Reservation Highway Ltd - Tel +44 (0) 1423 525577 / Email admin@reservation-highway.co.uk » / Website » / Hotel list » / Accommodation booking form »).

Exhibitors are invited and welcome to participate - Trade Exhibition: Manual (high resolution)» / Manual (low resolution)»
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Continuing Professional Development: This meeting has been approved for CPD by the Royal College of Pathologists, and the Institute of Biomedical Science. Forms will be available at the registration desk and should be completed daily by delegates. Certificates will be issued on departure from the Conference.

Abstracts / Offered papers
DEADLINE for ALL OFFERED PAPERS/POSTERS (TITLES and ABSTRACTS) is FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 2010
Submission of titles and abstracts for presentation at this meeting are invited. Each paper or poster should be associated with the scientific remit of a session (including virology workshops) or one of the general themes. Titles and abstracts (abstract specifications) should be submitted ON-LINE ».
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Provisional programme Sunday 28 March (1800-2000): Welcome workshop for early-career microbiologists Hayes-Burnet Travel Award Winner: Jeff Butler (CSIRO, Australia) day/time of presentation tbc Heatley-Payne Travel Award Winner: John Harrington (University of Georgia, USA) day/time of presentation tbc
	Monday 29 March	Tuesday 30 March	Wednesday 31 March	Thursday 1 April
AM	(ED01) The 'omics revolution: elucidating the pathways of virus infection	(ED01) The 'omics revolution: elucidating the pathways of virus infection	(ED11) Applications of ‘Omics	(ED20) The global challenges of virus infection
	(ED02) Signalling & systems biology	(ED02) Signalling & systems biology	(ED12) Gut microbes and health: from molecular to metabolic impact	(ED12) Gut microbes and health: from molecular to metabolic impact
	(ED03) Microbiology of Oceans	(ED03) Microbiology of Oceans	(ED14) Virus workshop: DNA viruses	(ED22) Small regulatory RNAs
	(ED04) Renewables	(ED09) Innovation in microbiology learning and teaching joint with HEA Centre for Bioscience		(ED23) Gene function analysis
	(EDPM) SGM Prize Medal symposium: Controlling the cell cycle	(ED10) STIs: now	(ED13) Regulatory networks	(ED21) Environmentally induced morphogenesis
	(ED06) Parasites and pathogens: how to hijack the host and evade the immune response		(ED15/16) Virus workshop: RNA viruses
			(ED18) Virus workshop: Retroviruses
			(ED17) Virus workshop: Epidemiology and modelling
			Journal of Medical Microbiology Editorial Board
1200	Society for General Microbiology Prize Medal lecture will be given by Professor Sir Paul Nurse (President, Rockefeller University, USA)	Fleming Prize Lecture will be given by Dr Steve Diggle (University of Nottingham): Microbial communication and virulence: lessons from evolutionary theory	Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture will be given by Prof dr Jan Tommassen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands): Assembly of outer membrane proteins in bacteria and mitochondria
Lunch at 1300 in Cromdale Hall
PM	(ED01) The 'omics revolution: elucidating the pathways of virus infection – Offered papers	(ED01) The 'omics revolution: elucidating the pathways of virus infection – Offered papers	(ED10) Application of ‘Omics	(ED20) The global challenges of virus infection
	(ED02) Signalling & systems biology	(ED02) Signalling & systems biology	(ED12) Gut microbes and health: from molecular to metabolic impact
	(ED03) Microbiology of Oceans	(ED03) Microbiology of Oceans	(ED14) Virus workshop: DNA viruses
	(ED04) Renewables	(ED09) Innovation in microbiology learning and teaching joint with HEA Centre for Bioscience	(ED15) Virus workshop: Negative stranded RNA viruses
		(ED10) STIs: now	(ED13) Regulatory networks
	(ED06) Parasites and pathogens: how to hijack the host and evade the immune response		(ED16) Virus workshop: Positive stranded RNA viruses
	(ED05) Infection trainees workshop: the FRC Path and beyond		(ED19) Virus workshop: Global challenges of infection
Late PM / Evening	Welcome Drinks Reception / Poster viewing	Drinks / Poster viewing	Drinks / Poster viewing
	(ED08) Effective presentation skills	Gala Dinner at the Dynamic Earth	Public engagement event Professor Glenn Gibson (University of Reading): Getting to the guts of microbes in health and disease: the trillions of bacteria within us all
	Microbiology Editorial Board meeting		Journal of General Virology Editiorial Board meeting

Last updated Friday 22 January 2010