34th BSMT Annual Scientific Conference 2019

Thursday, 16 May 2019

34^th BSMT Annual Scientific Meeting: Thursday 16 May 2019

Venue: Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

Respiratory Microbiology – A Day of Inspiration

• Invasive fungal infections and the need for improved diagnostic testing
  Dr S. G. Agrawal, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary, University of London
  
  
• Cystic Fibrosis Microbiome
  Professor Chris van der Gast, Professor of Microbiology, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Healthcare Sciences
  
  
• Non tuberculous mycobacterial infections
  Dr Katherina Kranzer, Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  
  
• New diagnostics for MDR/XDR-TB
  Dr Riccardo Alegna, Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre and TB Supranational Reference Laboratory, Milan
  
  
• Respiratory tract infections: diagnostic tests which make a difference
  Dr Kate Templeton, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Honorary Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Edinburgh
  
  
• Severe respiratory infections in the ICU
  Professor Mervyn Singer, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London, Gower St, London

Professor Brian Duerden CBE and Professor Eric Bolton chaired the conference.

We again had a comprehensive trade show and are grateful to the following commercial companies for supporting the conference. It is only with their support that BSMT conferences can take place:

• Alpha Laboratories Limited
• Beckman Coulter UK Limited
• Becton Dickinson UK Limited
• Bioconnections Limited
• BioMérieux UK Limited
• Bruker UK Limited
• Culture Collections Public Health England
• Don Whitley Scientific Limited
• E&O Laboratories
• Genetic Signatures
• Qiagen
• Launch Diagnostics Limited
• Mast Group Limited
• Medical Wire and Equipment Co Limited
• Mobidiag Ltd
• Pro-lab Diagnostics
• R-Biopharm Rhône Limited
• Serosep UK Ltd
• Siemens Healthineers
• Sysmex UK Ltd