The Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) brings together bacteriologists from the Boston area and beyond.  With attendance now at almost 550 researchers from over 100 academic institutions and biotech companies, BBM offers an exciting cross-section of current microbiology research.

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BBM2021 will feature research talks by students, postdocs, and other trainees in these six exciting research tracks:

Antibiotic Resistance
Chair: John Dekker, National Institutes of Health
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/john-p-dekker-md-phd-fcap

Bacteria-host Interactions
Chair: Rebeccah Lijek, Mount Holyoke College
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/rebeccah-lijek

Bacterial Physiology
Chair: Heather Faega, Cornell University
https://micro.cornell.edu/people/heather-feaga/

Intermicrobial Interactions
Chair: Nandita Garud, University of California Los Angeles
https://garud.eeb.ucla.edu/

New Methods in Bacteriology
Chair: Marco Jost, Harvard Medical School
https://www.jostlab.org/

Phage and Gene Transfer
Chair: Alexander Meeske, Washington University
https://microbiology.washington.edu/users/alexander-meeske

Additionally, BBM2021 will host the following breakout sessions:

• Antibiotic Resistance and Beyond
• Diversity in STEM
• Bioinformatics
• Careers Beyond the Bench
• Host-Pathogen Interactions
• Mentorship in Science
• Synthetic Microbiology
• Microbiome and Microbial Communities
• Food Microbiology, Brewing, and Bacteria Art

For more information, please visit the breakout session page.