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Abstract submission

Thank you for your interest in the  Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology which will be held in Berlin, Germany from 22-25 March 2026.

We look forward to your contributions and thank you in advance for your active participation in the congress!

Note

When submitting abstracts, please note that this year only abstracts will be accepted as oral if the submitters/presenters are members of the VAAM.

Publication

The abstracts are selected by the programme committee. Accepted abstracts will be integrated into the programme as orals or posters. All abstracts will be published in the digital abstract booklet.

Abstract topics

  • Anaerobic metabolism
  • Archaea 
  • Biology of yeast and fungi
  • Biotechnology
  • Computational microbiology
  • Environmental microbiology and ecology
  • Infection biology
  • Host-pathogen interactions
  • Membranes and transport
  • Microbial biodiversity and evolution
  • Microbial communities
  • Phage biology
  • Prokaryotic cell biology
  • Prokaryotic physiology and metabolism
  • RNA biology
  • Signal transduction & gene regulation
  • Systems and synthetic microbiology
  • Secondary metabolites and natural products
  • Industrial microbiology
  • Open topics

Travel grant for VAAM student members

Deadline 7 November 2025

VAAM travel grants to the annual conference can be applied for under the following conditions:

  • student member of VAAM
  • active participation in the conference (poster presentation or oral presentation)
  • max. 3 travel grants per working group.

(If you are not a member please become a VAAM-member here)

Apply here

Stefan Regge

Abstract Management