Thank you for your interest in the Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology from 22-25 March 2026 in Berlin, Germany.
In December 2025 we will make the preliminary programme available here. Please have a little patience.
Look forward to these special sessions & lectures:
- 17 Special Group Symposia
- Workshop of Applied Sciences
- IAP – Industry meets Academia
- VAAM-Young Scientist Network
- VAAMentoring and Funding Opportunities
- HGS-Lecture with Christine Lang
- Vera Meyer on Fungal & Art
Main Topics
- Microbial Communities and interactions ( Matthias Rillig | Bärbel Stecher-Letsch | Till Strowig)
- Host-pathogen interactions (Stavroula Hatzios | Marek Basler | Urs Jenal)
- Microbial immunity mechanisms (David Bikard | Aude Bernheim )
- Microbial physiology and metabolism (Julia Kurth | Roman Stocker | Roderich Süssmuth)
- Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (Wilfried Weber | Steffen Lindner-Mehlich)
Exciting Abstract topics await you!
- 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