It is with great enthusiasm that we welcome you to Cape Town, South Africa for the 22nd International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference, 19-24 September 2021. This is the first time that this conference will be held on African soil. IPNC focuses on Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae - two bacterial pathogens that pose a major public threat globally.

The conference aims to bring together passionate scientists, emerging and experienced researchers and clinicians from all continents to discuss the clinical presentation, epidemiology, population genomics, vaccine research and development, host-pathogen interactions and gene regulation of these Neisseria species in order to keep abreast of the latest developments in this field. IPNC is a great opportunity for networking and forming collaborations for future work on pathogenic Neisseria species.