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Microbial technology: review and preview of an annual conference

Mark Wilks looks forward to the 35th Annual Scientific Conference of the British Society for Microbial Technology, which is due to take place on Thursday 14 May at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, in north London.

The title of the 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Society for Microbial Technology (BSMT) is The genomic and molecular revolution in microbiology: in technology we trust (or do we?), an event hosted once again at the RAF Museum in North London. 

The keynote speaker will be Professor Derrick Crook (Head of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital and University of Oxford). He also gave the keynote address at the BSMT meeting in 2016, not long after he had taken up his then new role as Director of Microbiology for Public Health England and outlined his vision for a National Infection Service. He set up, and still leads, a large research consortium, Modernising Medical Microbiology, which focuses on translating whole-pathogen sequencing and data linkage, as well as undertaking intervention studies investigating pathogens or infectious diseases of major public health importance. As he has now left Public Health England (PHE) and returned to Oxford, it will be fascinating to hear him look back over the past few years and to hear his predictions for the next five years and the way he thinks microbiology will develop.

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