Confirmed Special Events

CONFIRMED SPECIAL EVENTS

Engage your Audience

Time and place: 10 July 13.00-14.30 in the “Alsh” room

“Engage your Audience 2019” is an opportunity for early career microbiologists, PhD students and Post-docs, as well as supervisors to develop and showcase their skills as science communicators. This Round Robin event will provide an opportunity for microbiologists to bring their science communication activity to a conference and showcase it to peers and colleagues.

This event will:

inspire others to develop their own activities
provide feedback and constructive sessions for how activities could be adapted or honed
give an opportunity to try out an activity in a supportive, constructive environment
allow participants to develop or highlight their science communications skills

Sign up for attending ‘Engage your audience’

If you wish to attend ‘Engage your audience’, you can sign up for this event via the Congress registration. If you have already registered, you can revisit your registration and indicate you wish to attend ‘Engage your audience’. Only 60 seats are available, so make sure you register in time!

Round table: Big data approaches for industrial microorganisms

Chairs:
Stefano Donadio, Naicons, Italy
Marnix Medema, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Speakers:
Katherine Duncan, Strathclyde University, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nadine Ziemert, Tübingen University, Germany
Laura Sanchez, University of Illinois Chicago, United States

Round table: CRISPR - ethical issues

Chair:
Bauke Oudega, FEMS President, The Netherlands

Speakers:
Mazhar Adli, University of Virginia, United States
Karen Maxwell, University of Toronto, Canada
Peter Mills, UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics, England, United Kingdom
John van der Oost, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Special Event: FEMS Publishing: New Directions and Opportunities

Chairs/Speakers:

Patrik Bavoil, University of Maryland Dental School, United States
Matt Pacey, Oxford University Press, England, United Kingdom