ASM Annual General Meeting – 1st July, 1-2pm

Dear SIG Members,

We would like to invite you all to attend our Annual General Meeting for the Bacteriophage Biology and Therapeutics SIG at the Adelaide ASM conference on July 1st, from 1-2pm in one of the lunch rooms (room details will be in ASM program).

Please see below a proposed agenda for the meeting. Karen Weynberg will be chairing the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you all there

Bacteriophage SIG Annual General Meeting – July, 2019

Our AGM will be held from 1-2pm on Monday 1^st July in a lunch room.

Agenda:

1.    Update on SIG convenor and state reps

·      Brief update with the SIG committee on the convenor and state reps.

2.    Update on SIG activities

·      Update on SIG member count, blog posts, new researchers joining the field, conferences, etc.

3.    Update on SIG members

·      Currently sitting at 36 members listed on the blog site, up from 24 last year

·      Considering ways to further promote students, post-docs and ECRs on site

4.    SIG Blog site

·      Update on blog site. Since launch of blog site we have had 7 (soon to be 8) posts. These have attracted >100 views per post, the site itself has been viewed >1600 times, ~55% of views are from Australia, 25% from UK and 10% from USA. SIG blog site has been featured by Phage Directory and in association with Phage Futures meeting.

5.    SIG plans for 2019

·      Conference update: There are a number of relevant conferences that will be promoted to members through the blog, these include but are not limited to:

·      ‘Evergreen Phage Conference’, Evergreen, USA. 4^th- 9^th August, 2019.

·      BacPath 15, Swan Valley, WA, Australia. 30^th Sept – 3^rd Oct, 2019.

·      ‘Microbes and their viruses’, Tbilisi, Georgia. 21^st – 27^th September, 2019.

·      ‘Phage Futures Europe’, Brussels, Belgium. 25^th – 26^th September, 2019.

·      Synthetic Biology Australia, Brisbane, Australia. 14^th – 16^th October, 2019.

·      ‘Australian Virology Society (AVS10)’, Queenstown, NZ. 2^nd – 5^th December, 2019.

·      Workshop discussion: One larger event the SIG is considering to organise for 2020 is a phage workshop for SIG members and other interested researchers. Here we will pitch some ideas for the format, gauge interest and welcome feedback and input.

·      Phage therapy in Australia: We will facilitate a discussion with SIG members on how they currently deal with patient requests for phage therapy. Goal here is to get insight into what everyone’s current approaches are, and whether the SIG can assist.

6.    Open floor to any other comments, suggestions or feedback for the SIG

7.    Close of meeting.