Defining Phyla Within Prokaryotes (The Bergey’s Trust)
Chairpersons:
William Whitman, USA
Paul de Vos, Belgium
Speakers:
Wolfgang Ludwig, Germany
The conserved core of prokaryotic genomes: Is there information for delineating higher taxa?
Kostas Konstantinidis, USA
Assessing the value of the higher ranks of bacterial taxonomy with genomics
Celine Brochier-Armanet, France
How many phyla in archaeal ?
Satoshi Hanada, Japan
Gemmatimonadetes, a new bacterial phylum proposed in 2003
ECCO - European Culture Collection Organization Special Event: Microbial Diversity, Genomics, Methods and Microbial Commons for Interaction Within the Research Community
Chairpersons:
Dagmar Fritze, Germany
Edward Moore, Sweden
Speakers:
Nikos Kyrpides, USA
Genomics and relevance for culture collections and researchers
Brian Tindall, Germany
Typification of biological materials
Edward Moore, Sweden
Authentication of biological material: Relevance for research
Tom Dedeurwaeredere, Belgium
Microbial commons and legal considerations for researchers and their deposited materials
Biosafety in Europe - "A joint event between FEMS and the European BioSafety Association".
Chairpersons:
Benedictus J.M. Verduin, The Netherlands
Jean-Claude Piffaretti, Switzerland
Speakers:
Benedictus J.M. Verduin
European BioSafety Association (EBSA) and its projects
Martin Kuster
The biosafety professional (BSP) in relation to occupational health and new developments
Ingegerd Kallings
The Laboratory Biorisk Management Standard CWA 15793:2008
Allan Bennett
A practical biosafety experience with African drums
The Jorgen Lehman and Gerhard Domagk Symposium on Tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Persistence, Latency, and Drug Tolerance
Chairperson:
Host and mycobacterial factors in tuberculosis
Brigitte Gicquel, France
Single-cell analysis of mycobacterial drug tolerance using microfluidics and timelapse microscopy
Neeraj Dhar, Switzerland
Speakers:
The cause and consequence of genetic diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosi
Host pathogen interactions in tuberculosis
Sebastian Gagneux, UK
Host pathogen interactions in tuberculosis
Ulrich Schaible, Germany
Round Table Discussion - "Is it time to regroup, rethink and revamp our approach against Tuberculosis?"
Workshop: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Presentations selected from submitted abstracts
Special Seminar: Microbiology graduate students and postdocs - Making the most of PhD and Post-doctoral years
Chairperson: Joanna Verran, UK
- Hilary Lappin-Scott, UK
Getting published
- Lynne Lawrance, UK
Presentation Skills
The step from PhD student to independent researcher is enormous and usually involves several years as a postdoctoral researcher. How you spend this time can determine your success at establishing a long-term research career.
Speakers will share their knowledge and experience of two key issues facing early career microbiologists: writing research papers and making presentations.
Computational Microbiology
Chairpersons:
Peter Dawyndt, Belgium
StrainInfo: collective memory in microbial research
Frank Oliver Glöckner, Germany
ARB & SILVA: a software environment and databases for ribosomal RNA sequence data
Speakers:
Bram Slabbinck, Belgium
FAME banking: lifting phenotypic bacterial identification to the next level
Pablo Yarza, Spain
The All-Species Living Tree Project
Publications workshop
1230-1400. "Publications; at the heart of FEMS"
Chairperson: Vicky Johnson (Senior Journal Publishing Manager, Wiley Blackwell) and Fergus Priest (FEMS Publications Manager)
1230-1300 'Self-archiving: what funders require, what publishers allow, and what authors actually do'
Sally Morris (Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy, Worthing, UK)
1300-1330 'The future for journals'
Bob Campbell (Senior Publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK)
1330-1345 ‘FEMS journals, a home for your science’
Fergus G Priest (FEMS Publications Manager, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
1400-1500 Meet the Chief Editors
Dr Patrik Bavoil (FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology)
Dr Jeff Cole (FEMS Microbiology Letters)
Dr Dieter Haas (FEMS Microbiology Reviews)
Dr Jim Prosser (FEMS Microbiology Ecology)
1800 Wiley-Blackwell reception