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Famous Belgian Microbiologists

• Emile Pierre Marie Van Ermengem (1851-1932), the discoverer of Clostridium botulinum and botulin-toxin.

• Jules Bordet (1870–1961), the isolation of Bordetella and his Nobel Prize in 1919.

• Jean-Marie Ghuysen (1925–2004) and the structure of peptidoglycan.

• Walter Fiers (1931–2019) microbiologist and a founder of molecular biology.

• Jeff Schell (1935–2003) and the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium.

News

• 18th December 2019, ULiège, Belgium. Astrobiology: from stars and planets to extreme life.

• 6th March 2020, ULiège, Belgium. Molecular Bacteriology Annual Meeting FNRS contact group.

• 30th March - 3rd April, 2020, Edinburgh. Microbiology Society Annual Conference.

• 14-19 June 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands. The International Society for Subsurface Microbiology (ISSM) 2020 conference.

• 18-22 June, Chicago, USA. ASM Microbe 2020.

• 2-4 July 2020, Belgrade, Serbia. FEMS conference.

• 2-7 August, 2020, Helsinki, Finland. The 34th ISME World Conference.

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For more information on the BSM please contact Cathy De Meyer by e-mail (click on the icon below)



Next Board meeting : 20th December, 2019 – Academy – Brussels

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