Lamprou Lab Blog

  If you join the Lamprou group, it's not only for   its academic side and the perspective of spending your next three years in the lab of the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS). Let's admit it, we love   passing a spare couple of hours in social activities.   Winter has arrived once again, and we   could not miss out a Christmas party with the   rest of the group, even if   this occurred a little bit early in our calendar, at the very beginning of December.

November 2014 I had the chance to attend the Health Care Infection Society (HIS;   www.his.org.uk/ ).  I must admit, with my background in engineering and design, attending an event primarily targeted at clinicians and microbiologist was a little daunting. There was a real fear that I was in for three days of talks that would go entirely over my head. Thankfully though this was not the case and over the course of the conference, I managed to attend a wide range of interesting presentations. Topics ranged from those directly related to my work, such as endoscope decontamination and water borne pathogens, to talks more applicable to microbiology as a whole such as the slightly daunting concept of viable-but-non-culturable bacteria (how dead is really dead?!).