Showing posts with label tuberculosis. Show all posts
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Friday, June 22, 2018

MICROBE 2018 recap - Evolution of Tuberculosis

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So it's Sunday...the meeting started Thursday night. Usually about this time, depending on how ambitious your schedule for the meeting, you are starting to get a little peek'ed and the sessions are starting to run together. For me - a good deal of money is spent coming to these conferences so I have a tendency to pack my schedule. This often times ends in overlapping sessions necessitating a cost/benefit analysis of whether I should risk missing the beginning of the next talk by running to the session after this one or stay in this session and listen to a talk that is perhaps less "soul-on-fire" interesting for me. In either case, you start tapping your coffee IV to make sure it's running only to realize that by this point you've probability built up a super human caffeine tolerance. Yet you still grab that cup and hold it at the morning sessions with such care and possessiveness you would think it a pot of gold.

So major kudos to Caitlin Pepperell and her ability to recapture my attention as my first coffee wore off and I started in on coffee #2. It helps that my next favorite bug - after Vibrio, is Mycobacteria


Evidence I stayed awake...the whole time:
You can decipher my notes above or just read the recap below.