MiCom 2012

Throwback to the 3rd International Conference on Microbial Communication for Young Scientists

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Welcome address

Microorganisms are a key component of the Earth’s biosphere, and microbial communication – whether between microbes, with higher organisms or with the environment – is an important driver of the Earth system. Our annual International Conference on Microbial Communication (MiCom) for students aims to generate new understanding of these interactions and their many consequences from molecular to global scales.

MiCom is organized and hosted each year by PhD students from the Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC). We cordially invite you to join us for our 3^rd year of discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration with a growing international community of young scientists. Both talks and poster presentations are welcome. We hope to see you there!

– MiCom 2012 Organizing Team

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Sessions & Keynotes

Microbe-host Interaction: Pathogenesis

Karl Kuchler (Medical University, Vienna, Austria)

Microbe-host Interaction: Symbiosis

Martin Parniske (Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany)

Microbes in the environment

George Kowalchuk (Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands)

Molecular communication

Sigal Ben-Yehuda (The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel)

Microbes in models and methods

Judith Armitage (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)

Organizing Team

Alessio Garrone

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Anna Mrozinska

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Ashish Malik

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Catarina Henke

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Daniela Freihorst

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Johannes Pollmächer

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Riya Menezes

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Sarbani Sarkar

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Sneha Narvekar

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Tino Jaschinski

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