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In microbiology cells are often considered to be uniform populations which can be adequately described by average values. Consequently, measurement of the physiology and biochemistry of these cells often relies upon analysing either the culture supernatant or a lysate of all the cells in the population. The availability of tools such as flow cytometry and image analysis which allow measurements to be made on individual cells has changed our perception of microbes within the laboratory and natural environments. It has become increasingly clear that even pure populations derived from a single cell are far from homogeneous.

 

In recent years new methods have improved analysis of what occurs at the single cell level allowing us to begin to understand why cells and cultures behave in the way that they do. Monitoring expression of genes at the single-cell level via the use of reporters such as GFP and observing the presence and dynamics of sub-populations have added to our understanding of microbial physiology. The commercialisation of smaller, easy-to-use and cheaper instruments has widened access to these techniques. The fourth meeting will include a variety of oral and poster sessions including the following themes:

 

• New instrumental developments and new fluorescent techniques
• Biotechnological applications
• Human health
• Screening and sorting
• Single cell approaches to cytomics, transcriptomics and proteomics
• Cell biology
• Multicellular organization
• Environmental applications
• Mathematical modelling of microbial life

 

 

Dates

Conference: May 22nd-24th 2008, Bad Schandau, Dresden, Germany.

 

Conference photos now available on the Photo Archive page.

 

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Full details of the conference hotel now available on the Locality page.

 

Final conference programme now available to download from the Programme page.

 

Abstracts book now available to download from the Abstracts page.