The Challenge of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms - Mechanism of Virulence and Novel Medical Countermeasures: 25-29 October,2009.Venue:Royal Beach Hotel in Eilat, Israel.Website:http://www.oholo2009.d-u.co.il/Welcome.htm

5th ASM Conference on Biofilms:15-19 November, 2009 March 2009.Venue: Cancun, Mexico. Website:http://www.asm.org/Meetings/index.asp

BioMicroWorld 2009 - III International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology:2-4 December, 2009.Venue:Lisbon, Portugal.Website:http://www.formatex.org/biomicroworld2009/

5th International Conference on Plant and Microbe Adaptation to the Cold (PMAC 2009): 4-8 December, 2009.Venue:Norwegian University of Life, Norway.Website:http://www.umb.no/conferences/article/pmac2009

Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) 50th Annual Conference: 15-18 December,2009.Venue:National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.Website:http://www.amiindia.info/

Microbes useful in desalination too!

Microbial Desalination Cell Photo Credit: David Jones, Pennstate, PA, U.S.A.

A team of researchers introduced a new way to use microbes to remove salt from water with a wide range of  salinitiesincluding sea water by desalination method without high energy input. Currently, desalination relies on either reverse osmosis or electrodialysis both needs high cost and large amount of energy. The device known as microbial desalination cell (MDC), a modified microbial fuel cell (MFC) which use bacteria to remove 90% of the salt from water additionally generate electricity and cleans waste water.