Meetings and Events

ACB MG Scientific Meetings

Past ACM/ACB MG Scientific Meetings

Meeting	Title	Area	Date
Autumn 2005	Antimicrobial Therapeutics: Treatment and its consequences	London	Thursday 13^th October 2005
Spring 2006	Emerging Infectious Diseases	London	Tuesday 16^th May 2006
Autumn 2006	Developments in Diagnostic Technologies: Microbiological Sleuthing in the 21st Century	Manchester	Friday 6^th October 2006
Spring 2007	Patient-centred Microbiology: the Good Host-factor Guide	London	Friday 11^th May 2007
Autumn 2007	"Something Nasty in the Woodshed"?: Category 3 and 4 microbes and the infections they cause	Leeds	Friday 19^th October 2007
Spring 2008 (within Focus 2008)	Key diagnostic markers for infection & Interactive case studies in infection	Birmingham	Tuesday 20^th May 2008
Autumn 2008	Gut Reactions: An update on gastrointestinal infections	London	Tuesday 21^st October 2008
Spring 2009 (within Focus 2009)	Immunological disorders/states: infectious association? & Interactive case studies	Liverpool	Tuesday 19^th May 2009
Autumn 2009	Automation: the future of Microbiology?	Cambridge	Friday 9^th October 2009
Spring 2010 (within Focus 2010)	Respiratory Pathogens	Glasgow	Tuesday 11^th May 2010
Autumn 2010	Microbiology and Emergency Situations	London	Friday 15^th October 2010
Autumn 2010 (ACB Spotlight meeting)	Near Patient Testing in Microbiology	London	Monday 10^th October 2011

Save the date - ACB MG Autumn Scientific Meeting 2012
Monday 19^th November 2012
Royal College of Pathologists, London

Continuing with the highly successful ACB Spotlight Meetings series, which address hot topics in clinical science that will have a major impact on laboratories in the near future, the next Scientific Meeting of the ACB MG will be a Spotlight meeting on the immunocompromised patient.

Further details, including a full agenda of prominent speakers, will be announced here early in 2012.

Meetings and events of other organisations

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e-learning programme in Medical Parasitology and Medical Mycology
work-based

As part of a two year European Union (Leonardo da Vinci)-funded project two interactive electronic (e)-learning programmes in medical parasitology (PARASITim@ge) and medical mycology (MYCOim@ge) have been created for medical and allied health professionals (CSs and BMSs) routinely involved in these investigations in non-specialised clinical laboratories. These multilingual annual courses have been created between France, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK (in the UK, the language used will be English) and are based on actual case presentations, diagnosis and treatment. A minimum of 30 allied health professionals at all levels and junior medical laboratory practice doctors will be accepted into each year of the two year programme free of charge, after which period charges will apply.

For further details please download the programme information or contact Professor Huw Smith.

European Antibiotic Awareness Day 2011
Friday 18^th November 2011
Multiple locations

European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) was established to annually highlight the problem of antibiotic resistance and the need for appropriate use of antibiotics in hospitals and primary care. It aims to raise the awareness of the issues among prescribers, non-prescribing healthcare professionals, patients and medical students. EAAD is supported by the Department of Health, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and other professional bodies.

More information about EAAD, including educational materials to publicise the need for prudent antimicrobial use, can be found on the DH website. Events taking place on EAAD 2011 include:

• The DH Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections will be launching new antimicrobial stewardship guidance for secondary care in England.

• Whole-day symposium supporting EAAD at the Federation of Infection Societies Conference (FIS 2011, Manchester Central, Wednesday 16^th – Friday 18^th November).

The funding landscape for infectious disease researchers– what money is out there and how to get it
Friday 9^th December 2011
Friends House, London

This Infectious Disease Research Network workshop is set up to provide information about some of the main funding sources that are available to infectious disease researchers. It is heavily subsidised, being free for current students, and just £30.09 for all other delegates.
There will be talks from the major contributors to UK infection research, including representatives from the MRC, Wellcome, NIHR, European Commission and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

This promises to be an exciting and stimulating event for those involved in research of all disciplines and at all levels of seniority, with plenty of discussion, networking and collaboration. There will also be interesting talks from both senior and junior researchers that have received monies from one of the above funders who will outline current or recently completed work on a range of different diseases and disciplines, a poster session for viewing during lunchtime and breaks, several stands from the main research charities plus relevant professional bodies & societies and industry and a post-event webpage with presentations from the day, an attendees distribution list, contributor/sponsor resources, etc.