Staphylococcus GBI 2019 is a bi-annual meeting that brings together all researchers working on staphylococci in Great Britain and Ireland. The major goal of this conference is to provide a forum for the early career researchers active in staphylococcal research to present and discuss their research. This conference will include a range of exciting themes including fundamental bacterial cell biology, host-bacterial interactions, genomics, immune responses to infection and novel treatment strategies.