Thank you for your interest in 17th Symposium on Bacterial Genetics and Ecology from 01–04 July 2025 in Graz, Austria.
The preliminary programme will be soon available here.
You are welcome to contribute to the scientific programme. Submission of late breaking abstracts are possible until 2 May 2025. Further information you can find here.
Main topics
- Defining pathogens from an ecological perspective
- Anthropocene and biogeochemical cycles
- Soil microbiome and One Health
- The human microbiome in health and disease
- Food-gut microbiome axis
- Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture
- Microbial production systems and artificial intelligence
Speakers
Opening Lecture
Jack Gilbert (San Diego/US)
Defining pathogens from an ecological perspective
Tomislav Cernava (Southampton/UK)
Joanna Salles (Groningen/NL)
Anthropocene and biogeochemical cycles
Michael Schloter (Munich/DE)
Bettina Weber (Graz/AT)
Soil microbiome and One Health
Daniele Daffonchio (Jeddah/SA)
Marcel van der Heijden (Zurich/CH)
Eligio Malusa (Skierniewice/PL)
Kornelia Smalla (Braunschweig/DE)
The human microbiome in health and disease
Gregor Gorkiewicz (Graz/AT)
Itzhak Mizrahi (Beer-Sheva/IL)
Søren J. Sørensen (Copenhagen/DK)
Food-gut microbiome axis
Sofia Forslund (Berlin/DE)
Ingeborg Klymiuk (Graz/AT)
Aki Sinkkonen (Helsinki/FI)
Gerado Toledo (Boston/US)
Paul Wilmes (Luxembourg/LU)
Microbiome management
Rodrigo Costa (Lisboa/PT)
Angela Sessitsch (Vienna/AT)
Microbial production systems and artificial intelligence
Robert Kourist (Graz/AT)
Marina Höhne (Potsdam/DE)
Closing Lecture
Janet Jansson (Richland/US)
Workshop Metagenomics
Ulisses Nunes da Rocha (Leipzig/DE)
Round Table
Christoph Tebbe (Braunschweig/DE)
Art presentation
Joanna Hoffmann (Poznan/PL)
