The CBRNe Convergence 2018 Congress & Exhibition will take place November 6-8, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. This must-attend annual congress for the global CBRNE community is now in its 11th year, offering streamed sessions, demonstrations, poster presentations and exhibits from the leading CBRNE solution providers. The conference program is planned by Gwyn Winfield, editor of
The 2018 Superbugs & Superdrugs USA conference will be held 12-13 November 2018 in Iselin, New Jersey. This 3rd annual Superbugs & Superdrugs USA conference will help participants to learn about pathogen focused drug development; discover the best methods to overcome bacterial resistance through novel modes of action; discuss the state of developments within the
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week is November 12-18, 2018. Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections. Many more will die from complications by an antibiotic-resistant infection. Join the Centers for Disease
The 2018 International Meeting on Optical Biosensors – IMOB 2018 – will be held 15-17 November 2018 in Ghent, Belgium. The conference gathers experts and stakeholders in the field of biosensors to accelerate development of dynamic imaging approaches in all areas of biology and biomedical sciences. The recent explosion of fluorescent biosensors development opens a
DARPA program manager Col. Matthew Hepburn will discuss and demonstrate several novel technologies for responding to pandemics during a seminar event at Georgetown University on November 16, 2018. For sixty years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the Department of Defense has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments
The Conference on Clinical Research for Rare Diseases - CCRRD 2018 - will be held November 28, 2018 in Rockville, Maryland. Many fundamental advances in medicine have come from the study of rare diseases and these have benefited common diseases. In order to assure the future of this research, the training of the next generation of
The 2018 Virginia Ebola & Highly Infectious Disease Summit will be held Nov. 19, 2018 in Winchester, Virginia. Highlighted presentations include: From Ebola to Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Focus on the Frontlines Ebola PUI: Laboratory Testing and Biosafety Perspective Center for Domestic Preparedness Highly Infectious Disease Training Valley Health System-Wide Exercise Panel Discussion Eastern Virginia
Please join us on Monday, November 26, 2018, in Washington, DC, for a momentous occasion reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the influenza pandemic of 1918. A panel discussion entitled “A Century After the 1918 Influenza Pandemic—Why Are We Still Concerned Today?” cohosted by the National Academy of Medicine, with the Forum on Microbial Threats, will be held from
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will host “A topsy-turvy world where pathogen sequencing leads infection,” a lecture by Sharon Peacock describing how sequencing is being used to redesign hospital infection prevention and control on 26 November 2018. The event is part of the LSHTM’s Global Health Lecture Series. Sharon Peacock was previously
The Victorian branch of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society is hosting a Pathogen Bioinformatics special interest group meeting on the 28th November. The scope of this meeting broadly encompasses the genomic and bioinformatic study of pathogen and pest interactions with their hosts. Similar meetings have been previously held under the name of the Australian Pathogen Bioinformatics
Dr. Amesh Adalja, MD, a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, will speak about the intersection of terrorism, pandemics, and emergency medicine on November 28th in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Adalja specializes in infectious diseases, critical care, and emergency medicine. He was deployed to Haiti with the US Department of Health and Human
