General Information
Venue
University Library Graz
Universitätsplatz 3a
8010 Graz, Austria
Date
1–4 July 2025
Conference homepage
www.bageco.org
17th Symposium
Conference chair
on Bacterial Genetics
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Berg
Institute of Environmental Biotechnology
and Ecology
Graz University of Technology
Bacteria drive our
Local scientific committee
Gabriele Berg Birgit Wassermann
planet‘s health
Samuel Bickel Wisnu Wicaksono
International scientific committee
Gabriele Berg (Graz/AT)
Stefan Bertilsson
Heike Schmitt (Delft/NL)
Kornelia Smalla
CALL
(Uppsala/SE)
Rodrigo Costa (Lisbon/PT)
Itzhak Mizrahi
(Braunschweig/DE)
Søren J. Sørensen
(Copenhagen/DK)
for
(Beer-Sheva/IL)
Ines Mandic Mulec
Christoph C. Tebbe
(Braunschweig/DE)
ABSTRACTS
(Ljubljana/SI) Tim Vogel (Lyon/FR)
Conference language
The official conference language is English.
Industrial exhibition
The international symposium will be accompanied
by a specialised industrial exhibition.
Professional Congress Organizer
Conventus Congressmanagement & Marketing GmbH
Ms. Nicole Hirsch I Ms. Jessica Grimm
Phone +49 3641 3116 313 I -348
bageco@conventus.de
www.conventus.de
Abstract submission Programme
We cordially invite you to submit abstracts related to one of Scientific programme
the following topics: The scienitifc programme will be published on the conference
website in spring 2025. Further information can be found via
www.bageco.org
Defining pathogens from an ecological perspective Confirmed invited speaker
Opening Lecture Microbiome management
Anthropocene and biogeochemical cycles Jack Gilbert (San Diego/US) Rodrigo Costa (Lisboa/PT)
Raquel Peixoto (Jeddah/SA)
Soil microbiome and One Health Defining pathogens from an Angela Sessitsch (Vienna/AT)
ecological perspective
The human microbiome in health and disease Tomislav Cernava Microbial production systems
(Southampton/UK) and artificial intelligence
Food-gut microbiome axis Joanna Salles (Groningen/NL) Robert Kourist (Graz/AT)
Marina Höhne (Potsdam/DE)
Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture Anthropocene and
biogeochemical cycles Workshop Metagenomics
Microbial production systems and artificial intelligence Michael Schloter (Munich/DE) Ulisses Nunes da Rocha
Bettina Weber (Graz/AT) (Leipzig/DE)
Free topics
Soil microbiome and One Health Round Table
Daniele Daffonchio (Jeddah/SA) Christoph Tebbe
Marcel van der Heijden (Braunschweig/DE)
Submission deadline (Zurich/CH)
28 February 2025 Eligio Malusa (Skierniewice/PL) Art presentation
Kornelia Smalla Joanna Hoffmann
Abstracts can only be submitted online via www.bageco.org (Braunschweig/DE) (Poznan/PL)
and have to be written in English. An international review panel
will review the abstracts according to scientific content and The human microbiome in
suitability for the conference. A limited number of abstracts health and disease
will be accepted for oral or poster presentation. All accepted Gregor Gorkiewicz (Graz/AT)
abstracts will be published in a digital abstract booklet on the Itzhak Mizrahi (Beer-Sheva/IL)
conference website. Søren J. Sørensen
(Copenhagen/DK)
Registration Food-gut microbiome axis
The registration for the event will be possible online via www. Sofia Forslund (Berlin/DE)
bageco.org from January 2025. Aki Sinkkonen (Helsinki/FI)
Gerado Toledo (Boston/US)
Deadline for early bird registration Paul Wilmes (Luxembourg/LU)
31 March 2025
