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Scientific programme

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)

Get to know our Plenary speakers

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