This will be the 36th annual meeting and, as usual, we will have a varied selection of “hot topics”. The meeting will once again be held at The Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, which is near the British Museum. The nearest underground station is Tottenham Court Road (click here for map).

Due to the kind support of this meeting by industry the attendance fee remains low, costing only £35.00 which includes all refreshments. On-line registration will be available from this website from December 1st 2009.

 

 

PROGRAMME:

09:00 Registration and Coffee

09.40 Welcome

09.45 The mutational origins of TB drug resistance. Dr Nigel J Saunders, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Functional Genomics Group, University of Oxford

10.15 Prospects for new TB Drugs. Professor Stephen Gillespie, Department of Infection, University College London

10.45 Robotics and automation in Microbiology. Dr David Hopper, RTS Flexible Systems Ltd.

11.15 Coffee

11.45 Automating the Bacteriology Laboratory - "at last". Mr Neil Bentley, Head of Operations, East of England RMN Laboratory, Health Protection Agency.

12.15 Q-fever in The Netherlands; when the manure hits the fan. Dr Hugo J Jansen

12.45 Lunch

14.00 Infectious Diseases in British Troops in Afghanistan. Major Mark Bailey RAMC, Consultant Physician, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine.

14.30 Emerging carbapenemases. Dr Neil Woodford. Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring & Reference Laboratory, HPA Centre for Infections, Colindale

15.00 Application of next generation sequencing and proteomics to C. difficile disease emergence and spore mediated transmission. Dr Trevor Lawley, Microbial Pathogenesis Laboratory, the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

15.30 Intensive support for Swine Flu cases. Dr Gail Thomson, Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, HPA, Porton Down

16.00 NHS Evidence - infections: finding the best available evidence. Mr James Freed, Head of Health Intelligence and Standards, Centre for Infections, HPA.

16.30 Tea

 

For further information, please contact:

Conference Organiser:	Professor Armine Sefton
Email:	topics-of-infection@qmul.ac.uk
Administrative Secretary:	Ms Barbara Tucker
Email:	topics@tiscali.co.uk