Scientific Scope

Plenary topic

to be specified within Environmental Microbiology

Agricultural and Food Microbiology

Omics of soil – plant – animal – microbe interactions in crop production; Omic approaches in soil fertility investigations; Biotization, rhizosphere and phyllosphere technology; Forest microbiome; Bio-indication and bio-sensorics; Improvement of microbiological safety of foods; Food safety and agricultural raw materials, microbiological risk assessment; Wine and vineyard microbiome; Pro- and prebiotics, biopreservation; Microbial interactomics; Adaptomics in the food chain

Bacteriology

Molecular biology, physiology and evolution of bacteria; Application of “omics” in bacterial research, diagnosis, preventive efforts and epidemiology; The role of bacterial microbiome in homeostasis and disease; Human and veterinary bacterial pathogens and pathogenesis; Genetic background and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance; Bacteriophages

Clinical and Diagnostic Microbiology

Case reports; Possibilities and restrictions in gene therapy; Diagnostic methods; STD-STI (syphilis, HIV/AIDS, genital herpes, HPV, Chlamydia infections); Microbial interactions; Resistomics and treatment options

Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology

Novel culture techniques to reveal the hidden diversity; Microbial taxonomy in the omics era; Functionomics of microbial communities; Biodiversity and adaptation of extremophiles, paleomicrobiology; Metagenomics in the environmental microbiology; Biogeochemical cycles and climate change; Microbial ecology of artificial and polluted environments; Single-cell based omic techniques; Microbiome of classical and novel environmental biotechnologies

Immunology and Parasitology

Infection and immunity; Immunogenetics, immunodiagnostics; Control of infectious diseases: vaccination; Application of lipidomics approaches in understanding chronic microbial infections; Proteomic approaches in understanding the function of microbiome; Host-parasite interactions, new and emerging parasitic diseases; Protozoa in the human microbiome; Helminthology, and protozoal diseases, taxonomic questions of parasites

Industrial Microbiology – Fungal Industrial Biotechnology

Microbial and non-microbial fermentations and bioconversions; Fungal (Ascomycota, Basidiomycota) platforms in industrial biotechnology; Applied fungal genomics; Molecular physiology of enzyme and metabolite overflow; Biochemical engineering, bioreactor design, modelling; Fermentation analytics and control

Mycology

Evolution and phylogenetics of fungi; Fungal cell biology and physiology; Genetics, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics of fungi; New tools for fungal genome engineering; Fungi as pathogens, host-fungal interactions, epidemiology; Diagnostic methods and platforms in mycology; Applied mycology

Plant Virology

All aspects of plant virology; Molecular mechanisms of plant-virus interactions; Consequences of plant virus infection; Pathogenesis of viral diseases, Viral genomics; Viral metagenomics; Evolutionary and ecological aspects of plant viruses and possible use of plant viruses in biotechnology

Virology

All aspects of human and animal viruses; Evolution of viruses, molecular virology, tumour inducing viruses; Pathogenesis of virus diseases, virushost interaction; Diagnostics of viral diseases; Novel endogenic and exogenic retroviruses in the pathogenesis of human diseases, aging and viruses; Vaccination and therapy, bioterrorism; Viral genomics, metagenomics, epigenomics, transciptomics, proteomics; Human virome