Microscopy and microbes –
Getting inside cells: the pathogens progress

Tuesday 24th June 2008

This one-day meeting is a new collaboration between the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) and the Society for General Microbiology (SGM).
The synergy is an obvious one – there are not a lot of microbes that can be seen with the naked eye – but up until now there have been no formal joint ventures. The meeting will concentrate on the cellular aspects of infection and will consider both cell invasion processes and the ‘tussle’ that takes place once a pathogen has started to replicate within the host cell and the cell tries to fight back.

Programme

0900 - 0945	Plenary lecture The Twenty first century challenges of sustainability and wellbeing Sir David King
1015 - 1100	Invited talk Cellular interactions of Picornaviruses (click title for PDF of abstract)    Timo Hyypiä (University of Turku)
1100 - 1145	Invited talk Imaging the dynamics of Salmonella invasion (click title for PDF of abstract)    Mark A Jepson (University of Bristol)
1145 - 1200	Submitted paper Atomic force microscopy to measure the strength of attachment of microorganisms to surfaces Kathryn Whitehead (Manchester Metropolitan University)
1200 - 1215	Submitted paper The combination of an atomic force microscope with advanced light microscopy methods to study microbial systems Chris White (Swansea University)
1215 - 1230	Submitted paper The early events in the integrin alpha-v/beta6-mediated cell entry of foot-and-mouth disease virus Terry Jackson (Institute for Animal Health)
	Lunch and Exhibition
1415 - 1500	Invited speaker Regulated viral trafficking on microtubules (click title for PDF of abstract)     Urs Greber (The Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich)
1500 - 1545	Invited speaker Autophagy in Infection and Immunity (click title for PDF of abstract) Michelle S Swanson (University of Michigan Medical Center)
1545 - 1630	Invited speaker SARS-Coronavirus Replication is Supported by a Reticulovesicular Network of Modified ER (click title for PDF of abstract) Marjolein Kikkert (Leiden University Medical Centre)
1630 - 1645	Submitted paper Rinderpest virus expressing GFP: Does the virus remain pathogenic? A C Banyard (VLA, Weybridge)

Held alongside the prestigious Microscience 2008 exhibition and conference, at the Excel conference centre, delegates to the SGM-RMS meeting will have access to the exhibition where over 100 exhibitors will cover almost all aspects of light and electron microscopy. If it is new and exciting in microscopy – it will be there.

SGM members can register at RMS member rates.

Organisers: Dr Paul Monaghan (RMS) and Professor Joanna Verran (SGM). 

 
To register please click here.