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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

• September 8–11, 2019, Pisa, Italia. 14th International Symposium on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms (GIM 2019).

• September 12, 2019, Brussels, Belgium. Topical Day: Aquatic microbiota in or near nuclear facilities: insights, discoveries and solutions.

• September 16–18, 2019, Leuven, Belgium. Summer School on Microbial Community Modeling.

• September 17–20, 2019, Ghent, Antwerp, Liège. BCCM training on preservation of micro-organisms : a practical approach.

• September 20, 2019, Ghent. BCCM/GeneCorner seminar "Gene technology today: a practical approach".

• September 26th, 2019, Namur University. Conference by the Namur Research Pole in Infectiology, in the honour of Prof. Guy Cornelis.

• October 8th, 2019. University Duisburg-Essen (Germany). Workshop : Space Microbiology Meets ~Omics.

• October 18th, 2019, Brussels. Symposium of the Belgian Society for Microbiology.

• October 22th, 2019, Brussels. The 10th Anniversary Kobe University Brussels European Centre Symposium.

• October, 27-29, 2019, Ghent, Belgium. 2019 International Society for Vaccines (ISV) Annual Congress.

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

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