Blogging Microbes Communicating microbiology to netizens Updated speakers list

Could I ever be more pleased that pretty much everyone Ive been inviting has had the kindness to say yes? HELL NO! This time I got a YES from Alam Faraz, an author in the Memoirs of a Defective Brain (my favourite science blog for a long time now). 

The full panel of speakers is pretty much closed by now and we count on some really interesting names. We have a venue, we have a date and we have a tremendously interesting topic, so all we need now is YOU GUYS.

Pop in next September the 19th at 3pm, there is room (D96a in the Medical School - D floor) for a lot of people. After the seminar we will continue our friendly debate in Johnsons Arms, a pub round the corner.

Stay tuned for all the updates will be showing up here in real time!

"Blogging Microbes - Communicating microbiology to netizens"

Date: 19th of September 2014 (Confirmed).

Time: 3 to 5pm (Confirmed).

Venue: D96a, which is located on D Floor of the Medical School, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham (Confirmed).

Confirmed Speakers: 

Alan Cann (author of the blog MicrobiologyBytes) will participate in a video format;
Shuna E. Gould (author of labratting on twitter) will be present;
James Gurney (co-author of the podcast The League of Nerds) will be present;
Alam Faraz (author of the blog Memoirs of a defective brain) will be present;
... and 1 more video speaker yet to be confirmed.

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QMC full site map - access here.

Directions by Car

Satnav

Please use the postcode NG7 2UH for directions to the Queens Medical Centre when using a satellite navigation system.

How to get there

The hospital can be found on the western side of the city of Nottingham. It is situated just on the east side (inside) of the Nottingham Ring Road at its junction with the A52 to Derby. The A52 crosses the M1 at junction 25.

Leave the M1 motorway at Junction 25, and take the A52 to Nottingham, past Stapleford, Bramcote and Wollaton Park. As you pass the University on your right you will come to a large traffic island with QMC on the right immediately after the island. Turn right here, take the first slip road on the left into the hospital grounds and continue along the hospital perimeter road.

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Blogging Microbes Communicating microbiology to netizens

It is with great pleasure, happiness, pride and an immense sense of responsibility that I announce to the audience of this blog that the Society for General Microbiology accepted my application to the Local Microbiology Event Sponsorship. This means that the seminar/happening/discussion/miracle is indeed to occur and I will be able to debate one of the most interesting topics out there these days in the Microbiology world. I speak of the new platforms of communication that use the potentialities provided by Internet to spread our message around the globe. 

There are serious first class blogs, podcasts, social networks, websites, forums, twitter accounts and the like, disseminating microbiology related subjects through a vast web network. This global medley collection of roads to knowledge can be quite mazy when ones not aware of the different niches that they relate to. And it is still very premature a cloud, the one that holds all these different perspectives/approaches in a symbiotic inter-dynamic swirl, culminating in the main topic - Microbiology.

This gap on the road to a better communication and understanding of microbiology related topics led me to prepare a local event in the University of Nottingham. For we all are netizens; citizens of the Internet that forage and scrape the different platforms for a little bit more of information spread all over Marshal McLuhans global village. But our famine will no longer be as you are all invited to attend:

"Blogging Microbes - Communicating microbiology to netizens"

Date: 19th of September 2014.

Time: 3 to 5pm, but still needs confirmation.

Venue: Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Room to be announced.

Confirmed Speakers: 

Alan Cann (author of the blog MicrobiologyBytes) will participate in a video format;
Shuna E. Gould (author of labratting on twitter) will be present;
James Gurney (co-author of the podcast The League of Nerds) will be present;
... and 2 more speakers yet to be confirmed.

If you are willing to attend and want to know more, stay tuned to The Toxicologist Today. I will be posting news about this event sponsored by the Society for General Microbiology, organised by myself and with the special participation of these incredible speakers that will make us suffer with expectation as we wait for the 19th of September 2014.

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Blogging Microbes Communicating microbiology to netizens Final Panel

The panel for the "Blogging Microbes - Communicating microbiology to netizens" event (sponsored by The Society for General Microbiology) is finally concluded. We will have some impressively talented people communicating their views to the audience and the broad spectrum of ideas is just mesmerizing. I honestly hope that people out there, and not only scientists or science students, realize that this group of speakers will bring a lot of expertise, quality information, entertaining perspectives and positive thinking to an event that I personally see as resounding. Dont waste the opportunity to come and check by yourself on the 19th of September 2014. 

"Blogging Microbes - Communicating microbiology to netizens"

Date: 19th of September 2014 (Confirmed).

Time: 3 to 5pm (Confirmed).

Venue: D96a, which is located on D Floor of the Medical School, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham (Confirmed).

Confirmed Speakers: 

Alan Cann (author of the blog MicrobiologyBytes) will participate in video format;
Shuna E. Gould (author of labratting on twitter) will be present;

Oscar Huertas Rosalez (YouTubber and author of the Spanish blog "Stupidity is tremendously more interesting") will participate in video format;
James Gurney (co-author of the podcast The League of Nerds) will be present;

Josh Nicholson (co-developer of The Winnower) will participate in video format;
Alam Faraz (author of the blog Memoirs of a defective brain) will be present.

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QMC full site map - access here.

Directions by Car

Satnav

Please use the postcode NG7 2UH for directions to the Queens Medical Centre when using a satellite navigation system.

How to get there

The hospital can be found on the western side of the city of Nottingham. It is situated just on the east side (inside) of the Nottingham Ring Road at its junction with the A52 to Derby. The A52 crosses the M1 at junction 25.

Leave the M1 motorway at Junction 25, and take the A52 to Nottingham, past Stapleford, Bramcote and Wollaton Park. As you pass the University on your right you will come to a large traffic island with QMC on the right immediately after the island. Turn right here, take the first slip road on the left into the hospital grounds and continue along the hospital perimeter road.

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Blogging Microbes Communicating microbiology to netizens update

And we finally have a room! 

Room D96a in the Medical School (Queens Medical Centre) has been booked for us. It holds 58 people so I believe it will be big enough for this event. The seminar will occur from 3pm to 5pm on the 19th of September, 2014. I cant wait!!!!

  

"Blogging Microbes - Communicating microbiology to netizens"

Date: 19th of September 2014 (Confirmed).

Time: 3 to 5pm (Confirmed).

Venue: D96a, which is located on D Floor of the Medical School, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham (Confirmed).
======================================================

QMC full site map - access here.

Directions by Car

Satnav

Please use the postcode NG7 2UH for directions to the Queens Medical Centre when using a satellite navigation system.

How to get there

The hospital can be found on the western side of the city of Nottingham. It is situated just on the east side (inside) of the Nottingham Ring Road at its junction with the A52 to Derby. The A52 crosses the M1 at junction 25.

Leave the M1 motorway at Junction 25, and take the A52 to Nottingham, past Stapleford, Bramcote and Wollaton Park. As you pass the University on your right you will come to a large traffic island with QMC on the right immediately after the island. Turn right here, take the first slip road on the left into the hospital grounds and continue along the hospital perimeter road.

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Blogging Microbes Communicating microbiology to netizens this 19th of September

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