The Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool will be the venue for this year’s Autumn Symposium of the British Society for Microbial Technology (BSMT) on Friday 19 October. The topic for the event will be ‘Going Overboard with Microbiology – Women and Children First’ – an appropriate choice for this maritime city which has a long and distinguished history in the discipline.
On the programme of the BSMT Autumn Symposium will be an overview of the topic by Dr Andrew Riordan (Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool); Lung infection microbiota in cystic fibrosis by Professor Chris van der Gast (Manchester Metropolitan University); Group B streptococci and other neonatal infections by Dr Jim Gray (Birmingham Children’s Hospital); Urinary tract infection and the urinary microbiome by Dr Robin Howe (Public Health Wales); Evaluation of the Pertussis Immunisation Programme for pregnant women by Helen Campbell (Public Health England [PHE] Colindale); Transmission dynamics of norovirus in a paediatric hospital by Dr Kathryn Harris, (Microbiology Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London); and The vaginal microbiome and sexually transmitted infections by Professor Janneke van de Wijgert (University of Liverpool).