Conferences

Dear Colleagues,

Microorganisms have endured and thrived through the beginning of life on our planet, and this makes them the most resourceful biological “storytellers” of all living beings. They play key roles in biogeochemical cycling at different environmental compartments, with reciprocal and cascading effects in agriculture and animal, human and plant health.

Microorganisms are important for achieving sustainable agriculture as microbial pesticides, biofertilisers or bioremediating agents; they also mediate in environmental cleanup and biodepuration. Microorganisms support life in lakes and oceans, affecting all aquatic organism yields, and have an overall impact on the climate, thus regulating climate change. They contribute to food production, preservation and safety, thereby affecting animal and human health and nutrition. Microorganisms constitute an invaluable source of cellular and molecular materials for exploitation in biotechnology and bioenergy production. Last but not least, they constitute an important and integral part of all other living organisms: the microbiome.

Thus, the role of the microbial world—‘mikrobiokosmos’ in Greek—is considered more crucial than ever in the “One Health” and “One Planet” schools of thought, which comprise emerging concepts advocating the intertwining of healthy global ecosystems with healthy living beings.

With the significance of the microbial world mentioned above, the Hellenic Scientific Society MIKROBIOKOSMOS invites its members and all scientists involved in research in the field of Microbiology, especially young researchers, to participate in the 10th International Conference of MIKROBIOKOSMOS, which will be held in Larissa from 17 to 19 September 2023. The aim of the conference is to bring together a multidisciplinary audience of leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results in the field of Microbiology.

The first day of the conference will coincide with the “International Microorganism Day” (https://www.internationalmicroorganismday.org/whoarewe), which was the date that Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch merchant with no fortune or university degree, sent a letter to the Royal Society of London in 1683 with the first description of a single-celled organism. For this reason, parallel activities will be organized for students and the general public.

The theme of the conference is “All Microbes for a Sustainable Future” to highlight the significant role of microorganisms in the following fields/sessions: agriculture/fisheries/aquaculture, One Health approach, food/nutrition, environment, bioengineering, and biotechnology/bioenergy, thus ensuring the sustainability of our planet. Advances in molecular mechanisms, model organisms, microbiome studies, omics approaches and bioinformatics tools, mechanisms of action, and host–microbe association and interaction are also included.

Distinguished scientists from Greece and abroad have been invited as speakers at the conference to present recent research developments in the above fields.

The conference will take place in the capital and the largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece, Larissa, at the Divani Larissa Hotel, and we hope to attract a broad European, Mediterranean and international participation.

The project “FunShield4Med” (https://funshield4med.eu/) contributes to the conference’s organisation. This project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and the Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 101079173 and is implemented by the Hellenic Agricultural Organisation DIMITRA.

The conference is supported by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) (https://fems-microbiology.org/)

On behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Committee
Dr. Chrysoula Tassou
President of Mikrobiokosmos

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