Regular sessions
Session 1: Antimicrobial Resistance - An emerging concern with growing consequences
Chairs : Sotirios Vasileiadis, Lise Barthelmebs, Konstantinos Kormas, Francesca Mapelli, Ed Topp
- Mechanisms of AMR transferability in natural and engineered environments
- Ecology and evolution/selection pressure for AMR traits
- Biodegradation of antibiotics as resistance mechanism
- Methodological advances in AMR environmental research
- One health and environmental microbiomes
Session 2: Assessment of the impact of pollutants on microbial diversity and functioning
Chairs : Chloe Bonnineau, Michael Thomas Marx, Stefan Geisen, Natalia Corcoll, Christopher Sweeney
- Effects of pollutants on microbial functioning in soil and water ecosystems
- Interactive effects of pollutants on microbial communities
- Methodological advances in assessing effects on environmental microbial communities
- Microbial communities and risk assessment - new regulatory approaches
- Microbial indicators for use in risk assessment of biocides
- Microbial indicators and biosensors for the detection of environmental pollutants
- Soil monitoring law in EU and soil microbiota
- Impact of pollutants on holobionts - cascading effects along the food web
Session 3: Potential interaction of nature-based solutions (i.e. biopesticides, biological nitrification inhibitors) and natural toxins with environmental microbiomes
Chairs : Evangelia Papadopoulou, Chrysoula Tassou, Kristian Brandt, Edoardo Puglisi
- Effects of microbial pesticides or other novel biopesticides (e.g. peptides, ds-RNA) on environmental microbiome
- Response of environmental microbiomes to natural toxins (i.e. plant-derived nitrification inhibitors, allelopathic compounds etc) - acclimation for biodegradation or toxicity
- Regulatory aspects for novel microbiome solutions in modern agriculture (i.e. microbial pesticides, phages, protists)
- Microbial toxins in the environment and consequences for environmental and human health and safety
- Aquatic microbial toxins and interaction with natural microbial communities in freshwater and marine ecosystems
Session 4: Microbial degradation/detoxification of pollutants and bioremediation applications
Chairs : Stephane Vuillemier, Ines Petric, Evangelos Topakas, Katharine Thompson
- Synthetic microbial communities for optimized biodegradation of environmental contaminants
- Engineered microbes for advanced environmental decontamination - regulatory aspects
- Microbial degradation of recalcitrant organic pollutants in natural and engineered environments
- Advanced methodologies to study pollutants transformation in environmental settings
- The role of the uncultivated majority in the degradation of organic pollutants in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
- Methodological advances in the microbial degradation/detoxification of environmental pollutants
Session 5: Interactions of environmental microbiomes with pollutants under climate change scenarios
Chairs : Michalis Omirou, Mechthild Scmitt-Jansen, Savvas Genitsaris
- Microbial degradation of pollutants in natural ecosystems under climate change
- Effects of pollutants on natural microbiome under climate change scenarios
- Climate change mitigation by microbiome regulation
Session 6: Microbiota - pollutants interactions in engineered environmental settings
Chairs : Chrysanthi Pateraki, Spyridos Ntougias, Panagiotis Kougias
- Optimization of biodegradation proceses in engineered environmental setting
- Toxicity of pollutants on microbial processes in engineered environmental settings
Round table : What is new in pesticide regulation regarding effects on the soil microbiota ?
Chairs : Dimitrios Karpouzas, Christopher Sweeney, Fabrice Martin-Laurent,
