June 22-23, 2026
George Sherman Union, Boston University, Boston, MA
Keynote address by Eric Skaar, Vanderbilt University
Online registration will open soon!
Late registration will be available on-site.
Important Dates
Abstracts for Posters and Talks due by April 17
Online registration Ends June 05
Pricing
Early Registration (February 18 to April 17): $160
Regular Registration (April 18 to June 05): $175
Scholarship applications will open soon!
We are excited to offer registration scholarships to trainees belonging to underrepresented minority groups and undergraduate researchers. The deadline for consideration is March 13. Awardees will receive an email with award notice instructions for registration by March 24 – please wait to receive this email before registering.
About BBM
BBM was founded in 1995 by two postdocs from Richard Losick’s lab at Harvard, Kit Pogliano and Karen McGovern, with the goal of bringing bacteriologists from the greater Boston area together to present their work and share ideas. BBM, now in its 32nd year, has proven to be a vibrant meeting, attended not only by bacteriologists from the Boston area but from all over the country. Keeping with its roots, the conference is being planned and organized by a committee of students, postdocs, and other early-career researchers. This year, the organizational committee is co-chaired by Jess Zhang, a graduate student in Ralph Isberg’s lab at Tufts University, and Tien Nguyen, a graduate student in Tom Bernhardt’s lab at Harvard University.
If you would like to sponsor our 2026 meeting, please reach out to us at bbm@hms.harvard.edu and visit our Sponsoring BBM page for more info.