Weeknote #29 (w/e 5/12/10)

I'm delighted to have confirmed the details of my talk at the Spring Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology (SGM), in Harrogate next April. The SGM is the largest microbiological society in Europe, and was founded in 1945. Its first President was Sir Alexander Fleming, and he's been followed by an impressive list of luminaries. The current President is Hilary Lappin-Scott, with whom I worked briefly at Exeter, and our own Jo Verran is the Education and Public Affairs Officer. I'll be talking about "Massively-parallel microbial search: a new platform for synthetic biology" (BACTOCOM, basically...)