"BACK TO THE FUTURE AND BEYOND:

Advances in Microbial Methodology – A Model for the Future?"

The 25^th Annual Scientific Meeting

09.30 – 10.30	Registration, Coffee & Tradeshow
10.30 – 10.40	Setting the scene Dr Robert George, President BSMT
Morning Chair: Professor Eric Bolton
10.40 – 11.10	Changing culture: perspectives on transforming clinical microbiological practice (12 MB) Dr Valerie Bevan, HPA Centre for Infections
11.10 – 11.40	Mechanisation, automation and integration of serological methods within a diagnostic laboratory Dr Jim Gray, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
11.40 – 12.00	Break (light refreshments will be available)
12.00 – 12.30	Blood Cultures Dr Robert Spencer, HPA South West, Bristol
12.30 – 13.00	The laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis (0.6 MB) Professor Denis Mitchison, St George’s Hospital, London

13.00 – 13.45	Tradeshow
13.45 – 14.30	Lunch

14.30 – 15.00	Urines, the past, the present and the future? (12 MB) Dr David Petts
15.00 – 15.30	Susceptibility testing: then, now and hereafter (8 MB) Dr Neil Woodford, HPA Centre for Infections
15.30 – 16.00	A generation in Microbiology and Infection Control – eclipse and re-emergence (17 MB) Professor Brian Duerden, Inspector of Microbiology & Infection Control Department of Health
16.00	Tea and Close