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The ActinoBase e-Seminar Series is an opportunity for both early-career and established researchers in the Actinobacteria community to share their work.  
The ActinoBase e-Seminar Series is an opportunity for both early-career and established researchers in the Actinobacteria community to share their work.  


Two speakers each deliver a half hour presentation (twenty minute talks followed by ten minutes of audience Q&A), streamed directly to YouTube from a google hangout with the opportunity for their presentations to be uploaded to the ActinoBase channel. Each seminar is moderated by at least two early-career researchers who introduce the speaker and select questions from the stream chat.
Two speakers each deliver a half hour presentation (twenty minute talks followed by ten minutes of audience Q&A), streamed directly to YouTube from Zoom, with the opportunity for their presentations to be uploaded to the ActinoBase channel. Each seminar is moderated by at least two early-career researchers who introduce the speaker and select questions from the stream chat & twitter.


The seminar is broadcast every Thursday (times TBC) and can be accessed via [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-gE1rlZPLfBo7MXuD1DNA the Actinobase YouTube channel]. To register interest in participation, as well as sign up to mailing-list notifications, please fill out our [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHbIL88FAWe-qQaPJY362fe6-NyZkTg7HvDt8T30m_K8C-6Q/viewform google form].
The seminar is broadcast every Thursday (times TBC) and can be accessed via [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-gE1rlZPLfBo7MXuD1DNA the Actinobase YouTube channel]. To register interest in participation, as well as sign up to mailing-list notifications, please fill out our [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHbIL88FAWe-qQaPJY362fe6-NyZkTg7HvDt8T30m_K8C-6Q/viewform google form].

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The ActinoBase e-Seminar Series

The ActinoBase e-Seminar Series is an opportunity for both early-career and established researchers in the Actinobacteria community to share their work.

Two speakers each deliver a half hour presentation (twenty minute talks followed by ten minutes of audience Q&A), streamed directly to YouTube from Zoom, with the opportunity for their presentations to be uploaded to the ActinoBase channel. Each seminar is moderated by at least two early-career researchers who introduce the speaker and select questions from the stream chat & twitter.

The seminar is broadcast every Thursday (times TBC) and can be accessed via the Actinobase YouTube channel. To register interest in participation, as well as sign up to mailing-list notifications, please fill out our google form.

Upcoming Talks

30.04.20 (3PM BST)

  • Dr Rebecca Devine - PostDoc at the University of East Anglia

From ants to antibiotics: Discovering novel medicines in the genomic era.


  • David Mark - PhD student at the University of Strathclyde

The anti-pseudomonad activity of Micromonospora Species from the Atacama Desert.

Submit questions via twitter using #ActinoBase01

07.05.20 (Time TBC)

  • Speakers TBC

Previous Talks

Organising committee

The ActinoBase e-Seminar series is organised and hosted by a team of early-career Actinobacteria researchers, if you have any questions about the seminars then feel free to contact any of the members below:

The ActinoBase team: teamwikimyces@gmail.com

Sam Prudence - PhD Student, University of East Anglia: s.prudence@uea.ac.uk Twitter: @Sam_Prudence

David Mark - PhD Student, University of Strathclyde: david.mark@strath.ac.uk Twitter: @DavidRcoMark

Alicia Russell - PhD Student, John Innes Centre: alicia.russell@jic.ac.uk Twitter: @alisia_russell

Tom Mclean - PhD Student, University of East Anglia: t.mclean@uea.ac.uk Twitter: @TomMcLean05

Emily Addington - PhD Student, University of Strathclyde

Rules & Etiquette

  • Question for speakerscan be submitted to moderators via the YouTube live chat or Twitter using the HashTag associated with each session.
  • Individuals in the Zoom call should their microphone muted video off to minimize disruptions.