2009 Press Releases

Mini-Symposium for Microbiologists of the Future
21.04.2009

UCC is hosting the first Young Microbiologist Mini-Symposium on microbe signalling, organisation and pathogenesis on April 21st-22nd. This two-day international conference is intended to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral and young principal investigator researchers from leading laboratories around the world to discuss their current research.
The event is organised by Dr Robert Ryan (University College Cork) and Dr Sarah Coulthurst (University Of Dundee) and funded under the British Council’s programme for International Networking for Young Scientists.

The Young Microbiologist Mini-Symposium aims to provide a platform for junior scientists to present their work and receive constructive feedback, to network with other student, postdoctoral or young principal investigators in the field, and hopefully to facilitate future collaborations. There are four major sessions covering the following highly topical areas of prokaryotic molecular microbiology:
  • Gene regulation and intracellular signalling;
  • Structure, biogenesis and transport across membranes;
  • Microbe-microbe interactions;
  • Host-microbe interactions – pathogenesis and commensalism.
Each of these sessions is chaired by distinguished academics from around Europe with the main core of the talks given by young researchers for leading laboratories worldwide.

The conference has two keynote lectures which will be delivered by eminent scientists. The EMBO lecture will be given by Professor Jeff Errington FRS (Newcastle University) titled “Life without a wall or a division machine in B. subtilis: implications for the origins of life” followed by the ASM Lecture by Professor Tony Romeo (University of Florida) titled “The Csr system: A global regulatory circuit that governs bacterial biofilm development”.

During the conference, senior delegates will adjudicate on the short student talks and posters. Prizes for these are sponsored by the Journals - Biochemical Journal, Molecular Microbiology and Nature Reviews Microbiology.

The Conference takes place Brookfield Health Sciences Complex UCC. See http://uccmeeting.synthasite.com for more details.  

Picture shows Dr Robert Ryan and Dr Sarah Coulthurst

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