The goal of this focus meeting is to bring together researchers with an interest in microbial evolution and to establish a new network of microbial evolution research in Ireland (MENI). We hope that this will be the first of many annual meetings and confirmed speakers include Prof Ken Wolfe (UCD) and Prof Conor O'Bryne (UCG).

 We are inviting submissions from PhDs, postdocs and PIs that cover all aspects of fundamental and applied microbial evolution research from environmental to clinical e.g. molecular mechanisms of evolution, experimental evolution, directed laboratory evolution, phylogenetics, pathogen evolution, antimicrobial resistance evolution etc.