The next meeting will take place on April 9 in Utrecht, back-to-back with the annual meeting of the the Netherlands Association of Viral Ecology (NAVE) on April 10. Registration is now closed. We will hold the meeting from 10:00 to 17:00 at the Marinus Ruppert building on the Uithof in Utrecht, which can be readily reached by public transportation. We have arranged a lunch for all of you.
See the schedule below. Note that invited speakers (bolded) have 25 minutes + 10 minutes for questions, contributed talks are 15+5 minutes.
9:30-10:00 registration & coffee
White room
10:00-10:05 Opening
10:05-10:40 Herwig Bachmann (VU): Microbial ecology and evolution in water kefir and a novel culturing method
10:40-11:15 Sahar El Aidy (UvA): Rethinking Microbiome Health through Functional Dynamics
11:15-11:45 Coffee and posters
11:45-12:05 Nimrod de Wit (RIVM): Calibrating for absolute microbiome abundances without spike-ins.
12:05-12:25 Loreto Oyarte Galvez (AMOLF/VU): Hyphal Healing Mechanisms in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
12:25-14:00 Lunch and posters
Purple room
14:00-14:35 Diana Sousa (WUR): Synthetic microbial consortia for gas fermentation
14:35-15:10 Kasper de Leeuw (ChainCraft): The use of metabolic modeling in industrial fermentations
15:10-15:40 Coffee and posters
15:40-16:15 Kathrin Wippel (UvA): Bacterial interactions influencing microbiome composition and plant performance
16:15-16:35 Christoff Odendaal (TUD): How thermodynamic limitations shape metabolic strategies in anaerobes
16:35-16:55 Xinming Xu (Leiden): Ecologically inspired assembly of a Bacillales synthetic community for lignin depolymerization
17:00-… coffee and posters
18:00 Dinner (location tbd)