If you have never attended the ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators, you are encouraged to review last year's final program, presentations and handouts. Over 300 microbiology and biology educators attend the annual conference.

http://www.asmcue.org/

The wind of change is blowing through clinical microbiology, not just in Africa but across the globe. Genome-based techniques are revolutionising the routine practice of the identification and characterisation of pathogens, opening many new opportunities and challenges in all areas of clinical microbiology from routine diagnosis to basic research.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences/Advanced-Courses-and-Scientific-Conferences/Advanced-Courses/WTX050986.htm

This unique international conference provides a platform for researchers and decision makers in biotechnology to present their latest findings and learn about all the important developments in biotechnology. Many Nobel Laureates and many world renowned experts will participate at the conference.

The conference will cover the translational nature of biotechnological research, with emphasis on both the basic science as well as its applications in industry and academia. Presentations will include major research advances in biotechnology, business development, strategic alliances, partnering trends, product opportunities, growth business models and strategies, licensing and pharmaceutical biotechnology (e.g. vaccines, CNS, cancer, antibodies), medical biotechnology, industrial biotechnology, bioprocess engineering, protein engineering, plant and environmental technologies, transgenic plant and crops, bioremediation, and microbial diversity research.

http://www.worldbiotechcongress.com/

NSV 2013 will review all recent developments in the basic research on negative strand viruses, including the following topics:

• In and Out and Moving about
• RNA synthesis and Gene expression
• Anti viral Response
• Structure and Function
• Host-cell Interactions
• Pathogenesis
• Vaccines and Antivirals
• Natural and Unnatural virus Evolution

http://www.nsvmeeting2013.com/

The CSM 2013 Ottawa Conference local organizing committee would like to invite you to the 63rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists which will be held at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, June 17 – 20, 2013.

http://www.csm-scm.org/english/conf_upcoming.asp

The extreme evolutionary pressure exerted on cells by viruses, and vice versa, is a key driving force in evolution. Perhaps the most exciting development in this area in the past 10 years is the discovery of the CRISPR system for antiviral defence. These clusters of regularly interspaced palindromic repeats are genomically encoded by many prokaryotes and carry a record of past viral infections.

http://www.biochemistry.org/Conferences/AllConferences/tabid/379/View/Conference/MeetingNo/SA148/Default.aspx

The Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting is Australia's largest and most prestigious microbiological conference, bringing together researchers, clinicians, and other industry professionals. ASM 2013 will showcase the importance of microbiology to our world through presentations delivered by national and international leaders in their disciplines.

www.theasm.org.au/meetings/asm-adelaide-2013/

The American Society for Virology (ASV) invites you to participate in its thirty-second annual meeting on the Penn State University Park campus in beautiful central Pennsylvania. The deadline for the electronic submission of abstracts will be February 1, 2013.

http://www.asv.org/index.html

38th annual International Herpesvirus Workshop
Saturday, July 20 - Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

http://www.herpesvirusworkshop.com/2013/

The American Society for Virology (ASV) invites you to participate in its 32nd annual meeting to be held July 20 through 24, 2013, on the Penn State University Park campus in beautiful central Pennsylvania. The 2013 ASV scientific program will include symposia and concurrent sessions on multiple aspects of virology.

http://www.outreach.psu.edu/virology

The 5th Congress of European Microbiologists (FEMS 2013) is an exciting forum that will address the many challenges facing key areas in microbiology. Topical coverage of medical microbiology including molecular approaches, as well as biodiversity, bioremediation, eukaryotic microbes, virology and other key disciplines will provide you with a comprehensive overview as to the current state of the field. Symposia and workshops lead by prominent scientists are part of a scientific program that will focus on a rich and diverse array of pertinent topics. Join thousands of colleagues from across Europe and around the world in Leipzig, Germany, July 21-25, 2013 and help advance the field of microbiology.

http://fems.kenes.com/

The DNA Tumour Virus Meeting is the primary international conference for scientists studying the molecular biology of adeno, polyoma, and papillomaviruses; all important human pathogens which are the cause of several human cancers. Furthermore, these DNA tumour viruses represent model systems for understanding many fundamental processes in mammalian cells. For example, it is through their study that the critical tumour suppressors p53 and pRb were first discovered.

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/mds-cpd/conferences/dtv-2013/index.aspx

The conference has historically focused on the multiple roles of Nucleocapsid (NC) protein of retroviruses, which is involved in the synthesis, maintenance and integration of proviral DNA and in virus particle assembly. Its role as a chaperone protein is perhaps its most important function as it promotes reverse transcription and coats the retroviral genomic RNAs. In the context of Gag, NC promotes viral RNA assembly and dimerization and interacts with several host cell factors. It is therefore a prime target for anti-HIV-1 therapy.

http://www.ncsymposium2013.org/

The EMBO | FEBS course on 'Host-Microbes Interactions' is a highly successful international Summer course gathering 80 students and 16 lecturers . It will cover topics ranging from microbial diversity, bacterial assemblies, metagenomics and RNA-mediated regulation, to cellular microbiology and innate immunity. It will include an EMBO Plenary Lecture on 'Pathogens and commensals at Mucosal Surfaces: from homeostasis to disease', a EMBO YIP Lecture on 'Specificity in the ubiquitin system: learning from bacterial effectors' as well as an EMBO Science Policy Lecture on 'Pathogens, vaccines and society'.

http://events.embo.org/13-host-microbe/

For more than a decade, Virology in Europe has increased in strength and coordination. This was initiated through the organization of a regular “European Congress of Virology” (ECV) and was reinforced by the foundation of the “European Society for Virology” (www.eusv.eu) in Rome, April 24, 2009.

http://www.eurovirology2013.eu/events.php?IDManif=695&IDModule=71&IDRub=332

We are pleased to host the ninth Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response, which will begin at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, September 17, conclude Friday evening with a banquet and departures on Saturday morning, September 21, 2013. The meeting will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to study infectious disease in animal and plant hosts, integrating the disciplines of molecular microbiology, eukaryotic cell biology, immunology, and genomics. The meeting will provide an in depth focus on the approaches that are being used to elucidate the mechanisms of bacterial and fungal pathogenesis, and promote the application of these concepts to understanding the evolution of emerging diseases.

http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings/host13.shtml

Pseudotype viruses are rapidly establishing themselves as important research and diagnostic tools of basic and clinical scientists facilitating the detailed study of individual viral genes, host cell receptors and highly pathogenic viruses, circumventing the need for high-level biosafety containment.

http://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1138675

Since the first conference, organized in Paris in 2000, the AIDS Vaccine conference has become one of the most important annual events for the exchange of scientific information relating to HIV vaccine research and development. Beginning in 2007, the annual conference is organized under the aegis of the Enterprise and contributes to the goals of the Enterprise by:

1. Providing a venue for an international exchange of information in HIV vaccine research and development
2. Cross-fertilizing scientific areas of research
3. Increasing coordination and communication among international groups
4. Monitoring progress in the field

http://www.vaccineenterprise.com/conference/2013/

The next Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory conference on Genome Informatics will be held at Cold Spring Harbor, New York (this meeting has alternated with Hinxton meeting started under the joint auspices of CSHL and the Wellcome Trust). The meeting will begin on at 7.30pm on Wednesday, October 30, and finish with lunch on Saturday, November 2, 2013.

http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings/2013/info13.shtml