Take a look at the preliminary programme.
The detailed programme will follow in January 2026.
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