John Innes – Ruđer Bošković Summer Schools on Applied Molecular Microbiology – “Microbial Specialised Metabolites: From Genome to Molecule”

Date: September 8th-16th, 2018

Venue: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Under the auspices of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) and Croatian Microbiological Society (CMS), seventh in this series of summer schools will be at the Inter-University Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik, 8 – 16 September 2018, with the title “Microbial Specialised Metabolites: From Genome to Molecule”. The summer school is organized by John Innes Center (UK) and Ruđer Bošković Institute (Croatia). The co-directors of the course are Barrie Wilkinson and Mervyn Bibb (John Innes Centre), Greg Challis (University of Warwick) and Duška Vujaklija (Ruđer Bošković Institute, the president of the Section for Bacteriology and an active CMS member).

The summer school reflects the recent development of interest in microbial metabolites that has resulted from the sequencing of small molecule-producing microorganisms, coupled with the current explosive development of sequencing technology, bioinformatics and chemical analysis. Ecological studies highlighting the wide range of roles for small molecules in microbial communities provide another major driving force.

These summer schools have established a reputation for the quality of the faculty and participants (about 40) and the high degree of productive interaction during the week-long courses. A special feature of the summer school will be hands-on computer workshops to annotate genomes and analyse natural product gene clusters.

We warmly invite CMS members to apply for the summer school.

The deadline for applications is 31^st May 2018.

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