Microbes are everywhere: in our bodies, in our food, in the soil and in the oceans. They are the most numerous and versatile living beings on our planet and they impact on our lives for both good and ill. It is essential that we seek to better understand how microbes work. Despite their apparent simplicity, microbes are complex beings. In particular, it is well known that genetically and environmentally identical microbial cells may behave very differently. This stochasticity can have profound consequences for how microbes respond to stimuli, survive stresses, establish communities and adapt to new environments. This is an area where both experiments and mathematical models have an important role to play. This meeting, organised by the BBSRC-funded StoMP network and hosted by the e-Science Institute in central Edinburgh, aims to bring together microbiologists and modellers with a series of cutting-edge talks, discussions, and hands-on computer practical sessions.


Registration Deadline - 06 July 2009
Deadline for submission of abstracts - 01 June 2009


Confirmed speakers include:
Mustafa Khammash (UCSB)            Pieter Rein ten Wolde (AMOLF, Amsterdam)
Judy Armitage (University of Oxford)         Leendert Hamoen (University of Newcastle)
Martin Howard (John Innes Centre)                Peter Lund (University of Birmingham)
Ian Stansfield (University ofAberdeen)                Peter Swain (University ofEdinburgh)
Gavin Thomas (University of York)             Marjan van der Woude (University of York)
Mark Goulian (University of Pennsylvania)          Sunney Xie (Harvard University)
Barry Wanner (Purdue University)                        James Moir (University of York)
Wilson Poon (University of Edinburgh)                                                                     



Conference organisers:
Rosalind Allen (Edinburgh University)
Dov Stekel (Birmingham University)
Jamie Wood (York University)


There is a small conference fee of £35. Free accomodation will be provided to those who register early. Assistance with travel costs is available for StoMP members



Contacts:
Scientific: pis [at] stompnet [dot] org
Programme, abstracts: misti [dot] cooper [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk
Registration, travel, accomodation: adminteam [at] nesc [dot] ac [dot] uk