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MiCom 2012

Throwback to the 3rd International Conference on Microbial Communication for Young Scientists​
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Welcome address

Microorganisms are a key component of the Earth’s biosphere, and microbial communication – whether between microbes, with higher organisms or with the environment – is an important driver of the Earth system. Our annual International Conference on Microbial Communication (MiCom) for students aims to generate new understanding of these interactions and their many consequences from molecular to global scales.  

MiCom is organized and hosted each year by PhD students from the Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC).  We cordially invite you to join us for our 3rd year of discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration with a growing international community of young scientists.  Both talks and poster presentations are welcome.  We hope to see you there!

– MiCom 2012 Organizing Team

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Sessions & Keynotes

Microbe-host Interaction: Pathogenesis 

  • Karl Kuchler  (Medical University, Vienna, Austria)

Microbe-host Interaction: Symbiosis

  • Martin Parniske (Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany)

Microbes in the environment 

  • George Kowalchuk (Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands)

Molecular communication

  • Sigal Ben-Yehuda (The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel)

Microbes in models and methods

  • Judith Armitage (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)

Organizing Team

Alessio Garrone
Alessio Garrone
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Anna Mrozinska
Anna Mrozinska
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Ashish Malik
Ashish Malik
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Catarina Henke
Catarina Henke
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Daniela Freihorst
Daniela Freihorst
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Johannes Pollmächer
Johannes Pollmächer
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Riya Menezes
Riya Menezes
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Sarbani Sarkar
Sarbani Sarkar
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Sneha Narvekar
Sneha Narvekar
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Tino Jaschinski
Tino Jaschinski
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