MICROBIOLOGY
Laboratory Microbial Diagnostics: Current and Future Practice
On Thursday 15 May 2025, the BSMT will celebrate its 40th Anniversary Microbiology Conference. Renowned for the quality of its presentations and speakers, the event will once again offer a cutting- edge programme not to be missed.
This year’s British Society for Microbial Technology (BSMT) conference, at the RAF Museum in Hendon, North London, will host a range of speakers from different fields of microbiology, including those in academia, research and clinical practice. As well as the scientific programme, the day will also feature a trade exhibition featuring 20 leading microbiology companies that are supporting the event (further company information is available elsewhere in this issue). All attendees are invited to visit each trade stand and come armed with questions for the commercial representatives. The conference provides scientists with the opportunity to discuss and debate their experiences. Registration is now open, and early booking is advised to secure a place. The conference has also been accepted for CPD by the institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) and The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath). This article focuses on brief biographies provided by the six speakers contributing to this anniversary event.
Professor Paul Dark Professor Dark originally studied undergraduate physics and then medicine. Graduating from Manchester Medical School in 1989, he went on to study clinical academic surgery, emergency medicine and critical care at the universities of Glasgow and
Manchester in the UK, and at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He returned to Manchester in 1998 as MRC Clinical Training Fellow and completed his PhD in 2002, and was appointed to his current substantive clinical academic post at the University of Manchester in 2003, developing clinical services and academic practice in Critical Care Medicine as Honorary NHS Consultant at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Dark is the National Institute for Health Research’s National Specialty Lead for Critical Care and has also served on NIHR’s Urgent Public Health Research
Advisory Group, providing expert advice on research priority to the DHSC and UK’s CMOs during the COVID-19 pandemic. From April 2021 Professor Dark has been NIHR National Specialty Cluster Lead at King’s College London. In addition, he is Research Professor in The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester, providing strategic interdisciplinary collaborative leadership and translation of acute care research in low resource settings. Professor Dark’s presentation is entitled ‘Biomarker-guided antibiotic treatment for patients with sepsis: providing value for patients and services?’
Professor Hermine Mkrtchyan Professor Mkrtchyan leads a multidisciplinary research group that studies interactions between human/ livestock/environmental microbiomes and transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to develop interventions within the One Health continuum. Her pioneering work on low biomass microbiomes
The RAF Museum in Hendon, North London; venue for the BSMT 40th Anniversary Microbiology Conference.
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