163rd Meeting, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland — 8-11 September 2008


Venues Overnight accommodation / breakfast / lunch / dinners will be not be available through SGM. A website link for accommodation will be available in 2008.
Scientific sessions / posters / exhibition will take place in the Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2.
Society Dinner will be at the Guinness Storehouse, St. James's Gate Dublin 8 (map)

Directions
How to get to Trinity College: Location maps »

Accommodation: For this event, overnight accommodation is not available through the Society for General Microbiology. Instead it can be booked directly via Conference Partners http://www.conferencepartners.ie/sgm2008/ »
Tel: +353 (0)1 296 8688 / Email
(PS Please note that on the week of the 8th Sep there is an All Ireland Gaelic football match in Dublin so may we suggest that you book your accommodation early to avoid disappointment.)

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Exhibitors are invited and welcome to participate - Sponsorship & Trade Exhibition PDF»
Exhibitors / Sponsors



Abstracts / Offered papers
DEADLINE for OFFERED PAPERS/POSTERS (TITLES and ABSTRACTS) WAS FRIDAY 9 MAY 2008. ABSTRACTS FOR POSTERS / SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS CAN NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED


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.

PROGRAMME
Plenary
Monday 8 & Tuesday 9 September 2008
Biofilms »
Cells & Cell Surfaces / Microbial Infections Groups
Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 September 2008
Innate immunity systems
Clinical Microbiology Group
Wednesday 10 September - Biofilm infection of medical devices
Thursday 11 September 2008 - Infective endocarditis
Environmental Microbiology Group / Irish Branch
Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 September 2008
Industrial bioremediation: from contamination to clean-up
Eukaryotic Microbiology Group
Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 September 2008
Nucleic acid packaging and processing
Fermentation & Bioprocessing Group symposium
Tuesday 9 September 2008
Fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks
Food & Beverages Group
Wednesday 10 September 2008
Microbial adhesion to food matrices
Physiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics Group / Irish Branch
Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 September 2008
Sealed membranes; the structural basis of transport and energetic processes
Peter Wildy Prize Lecture
C. Smith (University of Cambridge)
Stripping down science: The Naked Scientists
Tuesday 9 September 2008 1200
Young Microbiologist of the Year Competition
Tuesday 9 September 2008

Last updated Friday 1 August 2008