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
MiCom 2012 group picture
Image: MiCom 2012
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)