32nd BSMT Annual Scientific Conference 2017

Friday, 12 May 2017

Venue: Colindale, Public Health England (formerly Health Protection Agency)

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We had another excellent Symposium in 2017 - many thanks to everyone who came. Thank you to the Exhibitors for their continued support and to the delegates who joined us, many of whom travelled significant distances. Thank you especially to the speakers who provided some very interesting and thought provoking talks and to the chairs for keeping everyone in order. We are also grateful to the staff in Colindale for their support.

The BSMT Annual Conference is aimed at bench microbiologists to provide up-to-date information about organisms and techniques especially new molecular technology

• Read the report on this meeting in The Biomedical Scientist

The symposium included the following speakers and subjects:

• Moving towards delivering precision medicine in sepsis
  Professor Paul Dark, Chair of Critical Care Medicine, University of Manchester
• Cultivating the uncultured
  Professor William Wade, Professor of Oral Microbiology, Queen Mary University of London
• Community acquired pneumonia update
  Dr Kate Templeton, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Honorary Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh
• The application of MALDI-TOF in mycobacterial species identification and drug resistance monitoring
  Dr Pieter Jan Ceyssens, Head of Antibiotics and Resistance Unit, National Reference Centre for Mycobacteria and Tuberculosis, Institute Santé Publique, Belgium
• Multi resistant Candida auris outbreaks
  Dr Silke Schelenz, Consultant Microbiologist and Infection Control Doctor, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
• Laboratory detection of carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae
  Dr Katie Hopkins, Head of Resistance Mechanisms, Public Health England, Colindale, London
• Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae - how de we cope with them clinically?
  Dr Kathy Bamford, Infection Head of Specialty and Deputy Director Infection Prevention and Control, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London

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

We are grateful to the following commercial companies for supporting the May conference as it is only with their support that the BSMT conferences can take place:

Alpha Laboratories Limited
Becton Dickinson UK Limited
Bioconnections Limited
BioMérieux UK Limited
Bruker UK Limited
Don Whitley Scientific Limited
Launch Diagnostics Limited
Mast Group Limited
Medical Wire and Equipment Co Limited
Pro-lab Diagnostics
R-Biopharm Rhône Limited
Werfen Limited