More than ten MML members attended the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Microbiology (CSM), which was held in Oct., 2012 in Nanjing. As the President of CSM,  Prof. Zixin Deng made a brief statement to open the meeting. Some  MML members were invited to give academic lectures. For example,

Dexi Bi, Ph.D student,  "Best Paper Award"
The conservation and diversity of bacterial integrative and conjugative elements

Peng Li, Ph.D student
Putative novel terminal protein in Streptomyces cattleya DSM 46488

Hong-Yu Ou
Bacterial Type II toxin-antitoxin locus distribution and classification