Dear colleagues and friends!

It is our pleasure to announce a deadline extension for abstract submission! The new deadline is September 15^th.

Confirmed speakers:

• Angela Sessitsch (AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology): Endophytic colonization from roots to seeds - ecology and how plants can benefit
• Kornelia Smalla (Julius Kühn-Institut Braunschweig, Germany): Plasmid mediated adaptation and diversification of soil and plant associated bacteria
• Leo van Overbeek (University Wageningen, The Netherlands): Human pathogenic micro-organisms in plant production systems
• Alexander Moschen (Medical University of Innsbruck)
• Itzhak Mizrahi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel): Insights into the rumen microbiome
• Beatrix Alsanius (University of Malmo, Sweden): Impact of plant species and performance on the establishment of E. coli O157:H7gfp+ and the microbial phyllosphere community structure on leafy green vegetables
• Judith Klein-Seetharaman (University of Pittsburgh, UK): Computational metaproteomics of plant and human interactions with bacteria
• Auður Sigurbjörnsdóttir (University of Reykjavik, Iceland): Environmental and lichen-associated Pseudomonas isolates from Iceland have pathogenic potential and display behavioural responses to plant matter
• Adam Schikora (JKI, Germany): Crop plants as alternative hosts for human pathogenic bacteria
• Philippe Langella (MICALIS Institute, France): Our intestinal microbiota as a source of next-generation probiotics to prevent and to treat inflammatory diseases?
• Robert Krause (Medical University of Graz, Austria): Clinical implications of respiratory tract microbiome/mycobiome data
• Fredrik Bäckhed (University of Göteborg, Sweden): Mechanistic studies of the impact of the gut microbiome on obesity and type 2 diabetes

Date

October 12th and 13th 2017 (1.5 days: starts on 12^th at 9 am, ends on 13^th at 12 am)

Location

Lecture Hall Center, Auenbruggerplatz 15, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Preliminary Program, Registration and Abstract submission is accessible here:

http://www.medunigraz.at/center-for-microbiome-research/symposia/2017-theodor-escherich-symposium/

Deadline for abstract submission (oral and poster abstracts): September 15^th 2017

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Graz!

Feel free to forward this information to interested colleagues and mailing lists of your institutions.

Christine Moissl-Eichinger

With Gregor Gorkiewicz, Christoph Högenauer, Robert Krause, Gabriele Berg