Micrope - Symposium

THIS WAS miCROPe 2024 🍃

We hope all participants savely reached home and the heat is treating you fairly. The miCROPe 2024 was a big success. We welcomed 279 participants from 37 countries on almost all continents. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Our shared time was split between listening to inspiring lectures, discussing the newest insights and trends in our field, fine food and networking.

Congratulations to the awardees of this year’s FEMS - Federation of European Microbiological Societies ECS grants and to Best Poster and Best Talk Prizes winners! We all hope to see you at the next miCROPe.

Thanks to Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Vienna Convention Bureau, , KWS Group, Lexogen and Computomics for your generous support!

Angela Sessitsch, Head of Competence Unit at AIT & Chair Organizer, Tanja Kostic, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, and Stéphane Compant, AIT, thank you very much for putting together such an excellent program! 🎇

DAY 4: These are the four invited speakers who will shape our program on July 18th. A warm welcome to all of them. We are exited to follow your lecture.

* Britt Koskella (University of California Berkeley, US): "Pre and probiotics of the tomato plant phyllosphere for increased yield and decreased disease"

* Jesús Mercado Blanco (Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), ES):
"Versatility and impact on plant holobionts of a bacterial biocontrol agent: better alone or in combination?"

* Martin Hartmann (ETH Zürich, CH): "Organic and conventional agriculture promote distinct soil microbiomes with contrasting metabolic potentials"

* Livio Antonielli (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT): "Harnessing machine learning for predictive tools in microbiome studies: a focus on amplicon sequence variants and metagenomic shotgun sequencing"

Check out further speakers and the detailed program on our website.
https://www.micrope.org/program

Will you be part of the audience? Registration is still open till July 8th. We are looking forward having you!

https://www.micrope.org/register

Chair organizer: Angela Sessitsch
Collaborative symposium by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Institute and Technology and ÖGMBT - Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology

DAY 3: These are the seven invited speakers who will shape our program on July 17th. A warm welcome to all of them. We are exited to follow your lecture.

* Kenichi Tsuda (Huazhong Agricultural University, CN): "Maintenance of plant and microbiota health by plant immunity"

* Monika Messmer (FiBL Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, CH): TBA

* Raffaella Balestrini (CNR, IT): "Exploring the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in designing sustainable future cropping systems"

* Corinne Vacher (INRAE, FR): "Unraveling microbial interactions underlying grapevine resistance to mildews: bridging field studies with synthetic community approaches"

* Stéphane Compant (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT): "Harnessing fungal-bacterial interactions to improve plant growth and health"

* Monica Höfte (Ghent University, BE): "How to unlock the biocontrol potential of Pseudomonas spp.?"

* Gabriele Berg (Graz University of Technology, AT): "Exploiting the microbiome for biocontrol of plant and human pathogens"

Check out further speakers and the detailed program on our website.

https://www.micrope.org/program

Will you be part of the audience? Registration is still open till July 8th. We are looking forward having you!

https://www.micrope.org/register

Chair organizer: Angela Sessitsch
Collaborative symposium by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Institute and Technology and ÖGMBT - Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology

DAY 2: These are the seven invited speakers who will shape our program on July 16th. A warm welcome to all of them. We are exited to follow your lecture.

* Etienne Yergeau (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, CA): "Can microbes predict the future?"

* Sylvie Mazurier (INRAE, FR): "Plant iron nutrition as mediated by plant-microbe interactions"

* Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse (Université de Rennes, FR): "Toward an agriculture of holobionts ?"

* Omri Finkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL): "Balancing the plant microbiome against pathogens"

* Tanja Kostic (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT): "Plant microbiomes in the context of food systems"

* Ahmed Abdelfattah (Institute of Agricultural Engineering &Bio-economy, DE): "
The journey of the apple microbiome through millennia from the wild to the consumer"

* Simona Radutoiu (Aarhus University, DK): "Towards an understanding of root microbiome assembly in model plants and crops: findings from studies using complex bacterial communities"

Check out further speakers and the detailed program on our website.
https://www.micrope.org/program

Will you be part of the audience? 📅 Registration is still open till July 8th. We are looking forward having you! 🌱

https://lnkd.in/dchRr5GY

Chair organizer: Angela Sessitsch
Collaborative symposium by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Institute and Technology and ÖGMBT - Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology