CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2006--Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ:VIVO - News) today announced that the Company has been invited to present at the Robert W. Baird 2006 Growth Stock Conference on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 12:40 p.m. CDT at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. Bill Motto, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Jack Kraeutler, President and Chief Operating Officer, are scheduled to present. A question and answer session will follow and some of the information provided during the session may not have been previously disclosed.