News April 2013: All keynote speakers confirmed, preliminary schedule online

Microbes talk, MiCom decodes!

Understanding interactions in the microbial world

A conference for students, by students

We neither see nor hear them in our everyday life, but the inhabitants of the microbial world are constantly in communication. This invisible world houses various types of diverse interactions. MiCom aims to provide a platform to present and share knowledge about the latest research on a variety of themes encompassing microbial interactions. The conference focuses on both symbiotic and pathogenic microbial together with their natural habitat and the molecules involved in the interactions as well as the recent tools used in such research.

The Jena School of Microbial Communication and the MiCom 2014 Organising Team would be pleased to welcome you in 2014 to discuss the latest news from the microbial world.

The following speakers have confirmed their participation:

• Prof. Martin Ackermann, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

• Prof. Paola Bonfante, University of Torino (Italy)

• Prof. Gregory Challis, University of Warwick (UK)

• Prof. Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School (USA)

• Prof. Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona (Spain)

• Prof. Derek Sullivan, Dublin Dental University Hospital and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

MiCom 2014 programme includes:

• keynote talks for each session by an expert on the topic

• latest research by the PhD students working on microbial interactions

• platform for fruitful discussion between experts and students

• thematic poster sessions to allow one-on-one communication

• wide range of social events like conference dinner, city tour, pub crawls and many more

• get to know the city of Jena and its people

For information regarding previous MiCom conferences, have a look in the archive section and don't forget to visit the picture gallery.