For those of you who aren’t in the know, right now the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference is being held in Boston, Massachusetts.  I’m not there, unfortunately, but it sounds like an amazing place to be if you’re a microbiologist.  This enormous conference is being held at the Boston Convention Center, has drawn 12,000 people, taking up 23,100 hotel rooms.  According to this report from Boston.com, the conference is estimated to bring in $15.6 million dollars in “economic activity” into the Boston area.

I look forward to hearing stories about the conference.

post script:  Also, there seems to be some Science Social Media breakfast, that a couple of bloggers have been talking about.  Apparantly, its open to the public, but not directly associated with ASM.  That’s about as much detail as I can find.  Does anyone want to explain, in further detail, what exactly this thing is?

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