Schedule

This year's MiCom will take place for 3 full days from 2 - 4 September and will feature a program of sessions, poster presentations and workshops as well as sozial events.

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Monday, September 2

Time \| CEST*	Program
8:00 – 9:00 am	Registration, Coffee
9:00 - 9:15 am	Welcome
9:15 - 10:30 am	Systems Biology Session I Student talks and Keynote Marc Thilo Figge: Image-based systems biology of fungal infections in humans
10:30 - 11:30 am	Poster Session I; odd numbers coffee break
11:30 - 12:45 pm	Systems Biology Session II Student talks and Keynote Micheael Zimmermann: Identifying gut microbiome contributions to carcinogen metabolism and toxicity
12:45 - 1:45 pm	Lunch Break
1:45 - 3:00 pm	Natural Producs Session I Student talks and Keynote Christian Hertweck: Natural product biosynthesis in the hidden mold microbiome
3:00 - 4:00 pm	Poster Session I; even numbers coffee break
4:00 - 5:15 pm	Natural Producs Session II Student talks and Keynote Wilfred van der Donk: Biosynthesis and engineering of cyclic peptide natural products
starting 6.00 pm	Social Evening with Science Slam at Paradies Cafe

Tuesday, September 3

Time \| CEST*	Program
8:30 – 9:00 am	Coffee
9:00 - 10:30 am	Environment Session I Student talks and Keynote Markus Horn: Consequences of microplastics for soil and invertebrate gut microbiomes
10:30 - 11:30 am	Poster Session II; odd numbers coffee break
11:30 - 12:10 pm	Environment Session II Student talks and Keynote Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe: Plant-microbe interactions in the Antropocene
12:10 - 12:30 pm	Flash Talk Session
12:35 - 1:30 pm	Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00 pm	Chemical Ecology Session I Student talks and Keynote Paoline Garbeva: The role of volatile compounds in microbial communication
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3:00 - 4:00 pm	Poster Session II; even numbers coffee break
4:00 - 5:25 pm	Chemical Ecology Session II Student talks and Keynote Erik Selander: The scent of danger-general alarm cues in marine plankton
starting 7.00 pm	Conference dinner at the Botanical Garden

Wednesday, September 4

Time \| CEST*	Program
9:30 – 10:00 am	Coffee
10:00 - 11:15 am	Pathogenesis Session I Student talks and Keynote Corinne Benakis: The microbiome- gut-brain axis in stroke
11:15 - 12:15 pm	Coffee Break
12:15 - 1:30 pm	Pathogenesis Session II Student talks and Keynote Pascale Vonaesch: TBA
1:30 - 2:30 pm	Lunch Break
2:30 - 3:30 pm	Workshops
3:00 - 4:00 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:30 pm	Closing remarks and Prizes

* All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST) which applies to Jena, Germany. You can convert CEST to your local time hereExternal link.

A detailed scedule has been send to all registered participants.