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2013

Date	Event	Location
March 11-15	International winter school on symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer and hybridization for master, phd and post-doctoral students	Lisbon, Portugal, Ciência Viva Knowledge Pavilion
March 10-13	Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)	Bremen, Germany
March 06-09	23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology	Kiel Germany
January 20-23	2nd Water Research Conference	Singapore Expo, Singapore

2012

Date	Event	Location
November 05-08	3rd International Conference on Microbial Communication (MiCom 2012)	Jena, Germany
November 01-03	Annual Meeting of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM) 2012	Handwerkskammer Hamburg, Germany
October 16-17	1st Swiss International Conference on Industrial Microbiology - Microscon 2012	Olten, Switzerland
August 26-September 01	Field Course in Geomicrobiology	Eastern Swiss Alps
July 16-18	How bugs kill bugs: progress and challenges in bacteriocin research	University of Nottingham, UK
June 21-22	Young Microbiologist Symposium	University College Cork, Ireland
June 10-July 12	GeoBiology 2012: An International Training course in a Rapidly Evolving Field	Great Salt Lake and southern Wyoming, Colorado School of Mines, Caltech/JPL, USC Wrigley Institute, Catalina Island, USA
June 06-08	DEBI RCN Ocean Crust Processes and Consequences for Life Meeting	Bremen, Germany
May 06-July 29	The Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research & Education (CMORE) summer training course in microbial oceanography "Genomes to Biomes"	The University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
May 06-09	2nd International Workshop on Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation	Aarhus, Denmark
April 15-18	EMBO Workshop on Microbial Sulfur Metabolism	Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
April 02-04	Electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface	University of East Anglia, UK
March 29-30	Pollutant degradation under environmental stress: towards rational bioaugmentation	Trippenhuis Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 18-21	Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) 2012	Tübingen, Germany
February 21-23	International Scientific Conference on Bacteriocins and Antimicrobial Peptides – BAMP2012	Kosice, Slovakia
January 08-28	ECODIM-VII - "Ecology and Diversity of Marine Microorganisms" offered by the Austral Summer Institute of the University of Concepción, Chile	Estación Costera de Investigaciones Marinas (ECIM) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile at Las Cruces, Chile

2011

Date	Event	Location
October 25-27	International Scientific Conference on Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods – FF2011	Kosice, Slovakia
October 18-20	Life in Extreme Environments	Dublin, Ireland
October 15-19	Conference Jacques Monod on Integrative ecological genomics	Roscoff (Brittany), France
October 15-20	Comparative genomics of eukaryotic microorganisms: understanding the complexity of diversity	Sant Feliux (near Girona), Spain
October 05-07	3rd Annual Argonne Soil Metagenomics Workshop	Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, IL, USA
October 02-06	26th Brazilian Congress of Microbiology - BCM26	Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
September 21-24	Annual Conference of the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy	University of Tübingen, Germany
September 21-21	RELU - Living with uncertainty in animal disease management	Royal College of Surgeons of England, London
September 18-21	ProkaGENOMICS 2011 - 5th European Conference on Prokaryotic and Fungal Genomics	University of Goettingen, Germany
September 11-16	International Symposium for Subsurface Microbiology	Garmisch-Partenkirche, Germany
August 28-September 02	SAME 12 - The 12th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology	Rostock/Warnemünde, Germany
July 09-23	US-EC Course in Environmental Biotechnology 'Microbial Catalysts for the Environment'	University of Lausanne, Switzerland
July 06-08	MIMAS - Microbial Interactions in Marine Systems	Greifswald, Germany
June 30-July 01	Microbial resource management in biotechnology: Concepts & applications	Ghent University, Belgium
June 05-18	Microbial Metagenomics Summer Course	Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
May 29-June 02	Bageco 11	Corfu, Greece
April 27-May 01	Ecology of Soil Microorganisms	Prague, Czech Republic
April 10-15	Molecular Bioenergetics of Cyanobacteria: From Cell to Community	Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
March 09-11	International Human Microbiome Congress	Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 06-09	Deep Biosphere Sediment Microbiology	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

2010

Date	Event	Location
December 08-10	International Symposium on Soil Metagenomics	Johann-Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Braunschweig (Germany)
September 19-24	Workshop - Redefining Microbial Genomics: The power of sequencing individual cells	Boothbay Harbor, Maine, ME, USA
September 13-15	2nd Florence Conference on Phenotype MicroArray Analysis of Microorganisms	Florence, Italy
September 06-09	Society for General Microbiology Autumn 2010 Meeting	University of Nottingham, UK
August 31-September 02	Human Microbiome Research Conference	St Louis, MO, USA
August 14-18	Phyllosphere 2010 - 9th International Symposium on the Microbiology of Aerial Plant Surfaces	Oregon State University, USA
June 15-17	International Scientific Conference on Probiotics and Prebiotics – IPC 2010	Kosice, Slovakia
June 14-14	Gastro-intestinal Models in the Research of Probiotics and Prebiotics – Scientific Symposium	Kosice, Slovakia
June 14-14	Bacillus Subtilis and Sporeformers – Scientific Symposium	Kosice, Slovakia
June 14-14	Scientific Symposium on Bacteriocins, Antimicrobial Proteins and Peptides	Kosice, Slovakia
June 07-11	XIth meeting of IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Biological control of fungal and bacterial plant pathogens"	Graz, Austria
May 31-July 10	Summer Program in Microbial Oceanography	Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (CMORE) at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
May 18-21	2nd SItEMICRO course "Detection and quantification of microbes in natural environments"	Rome, Italy
March 29-April 01	Society for General Microbiology Spring 2010 Meeting	Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh - UK
March 19-19	Third Symposium Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology: Lessons for Innovations	Universidad del Turabo (Gurabo, Puerto Rico, USA)
February 19-21	2nd International Berlin Bat Meeting: Bat Biology and Infectious Diseases	Berlin, Germany
January 04-23	Ecology and Diversity of Marine Microorganisms Course (ECODIM) at Austral Summer Institute X (ASI X)	Biological Station of the University of Concepción, in Dichato, Chile

2009

Date	Event	Location
December 06-10	WAC (World Allergy Congress) 2009	Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 19-21	2009 DEBI Meeting: Subseafloor Observatories and Exploration of the Deep Biosphere	Kohala Coast, Island of Hawaii, USA
September 20-23	61th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology	Goettingen, Germany
September 02-04	Interdisciplinary Symposium, Biological Responses to Chemical Contaminants: from Molecular to Community Level	Aveiro, Portugal
August 30-September 04	SAME11 - Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology	Piran, Slovenia
August 09-14	13th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes	Montreal, Canada
August 09-14	6th International Symbiosis Society Congress	University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
July 12-17	Gordon Research Conference for Applied and Environmental Microbiology	Mount Holyoke College, MA (USA)
June 21-26	Individual-based Modeling of Microbial Interactions & Processes (Summer PhD Course)	Technical University of Denmark
June 15-19	Bageco-10	Uppsala, Sweden
June 09-11	Food and Function 2009, International Scientific Conference on Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods	Zilina, Slovakia
March 20-20	Second Symposium Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology: a Caribbean Perspective	Universidad del Turabo (Gurabo, Puerto Rico, USA)
March 18-21	19th Annual Meeting of the Society of Virology (GfV)	Leipzig, Germany
March 12-12	How dead is dead? Survival and final inactivation of microorganisms	University of Bochum (Germany)
March 08-11	Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)	Bochum, Germany

2008

Date	Event	Location
October 19-22	WEBS 2008	Pack Forest Conference Center, outside of Seattle, WA (USA)
October 16-17	Workshop: Legionella: Perspectives and Practice	Adelaide, Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library of South Australia richard.bentham@flinders.edu.au
October 14-19	INTERNATIONAL FIELD WORKSHOP MATS2008 "Microbial mats and mat-related sedimentary structures in siliciclastic environment"	Zarzis, Tunisia
October 07-10	9th International Congress on Cell Biology, ICCB 2008	COEX in Seoul, Korea
October 06-08	Biofilms III	TU Munich, Germany
September 21-25	THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING	Palma de Mallorca, Spain
June 08-13	PhD Course, Individual Based Modelling of Microbial Interactions and Processes	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, DK
April 15-17	NASA Astrobiology Science Conference	Santa Clara, California, USA
March 19-21	Florence Conference on Phenotype MicroArray Analysis of Microorganisms: The Environment, Agriculture, and Human Health	Florence, Italy
March 14-14	First Symposium Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology: Emerging Roles of Microbes in a Changing World	Universidad del Turabo (Gurabo, Puerto Rico, USA)
March 04-07	AXIOM-VIBE-eTRAP-HIGRADE Workshop: "Electron transfer processes at biogeochemical gradients"	Leipzig, Germany

2007

Date	Event	Location
October 21-24	International Workshop on "Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation"	University of Aarhus, Denmark
September 15-17	International Symposium on Microbial Ecology Matsuyama, ISME Asia 2007	Matsuyama, JAPAN
September 03-06	Society for General Microbiology, 161th Meeting	Edinburgh, UK
September 02-07	17th International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium	Frankfurt, Germany
September 02-07	10th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology Faro	Faro, Portugal
August 26-31	RHIZOSPHERE 2	Montpellier, France

2006

Date	Event	Location
October 27-30	22nd JSME Annual Meeting	Tokyo, Japan
October 16-19	2006 Genomes, Medicine and the Environment Conference	Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
September 11-14	Society for General Microbiology, 159th Meeting	York, UK
September 01-30	MicroEnGen	Rockville, MD, USA
August 20-25	11th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology	Vienna, Austria
August 04-10	5th International Symbiosis Society Congress	Vienna, Austria
July 30-August 03	2006 Annual Meeting Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Meeting	Baltimore, MD, USA
July 25-28	The Anaerobe Society of the Americas	Boise, ID USA
July 23-28	Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes	Biddeford, Maine, USA
July 04-08	2nd International FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists	Madrid, Spain
July 03-09	International Symposium on Environmental Biotechnology ISEB ESEB JSEB	Leipzig, Germany
July 02-06	2006 Annual Scientific Meeting & Exhibition of the Australian Society for Microbiology - ASM 2006, Gold Coast	Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
May 21-25	American Society for Microbiology, 106th General Meeting	Orlando, FL, USA
April 21-23	45th Annual Northeast Algal Symposium (NEAS 2006)	Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
April 03-06	Microbial Activity at Biogeochemical Gradients	Leipzig Germany
April 03-06	Society for General Microbiology 158th Meeting	Warwick, UK
April 02-07	European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2006	Vienna, Austria
April 01-04	16th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	Nice, France
March 19-22	Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology	Jena, Germany
February 21-22	Israel Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting	Ben Gurion University of the Negev
February 21-22	Israel Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting	Ben Gurion University of the Negev
February 20-24	ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting Special Session: LINKING ECOLOGY AND DIVERSITY OF AQUATIC PROTISTS: ADVANCES AND METHODOLOGIES	Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

2005

Date	Event	Location
November 13-15	Sixth European Biotechnology Symposium	Copenhagen, Denmark
November 09-12	8th Annual Conference on Computational Genomics	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 17-19	Genomes, Medicine and the Environment Conference, Presented by the J. Craig Venter Institute	Hilton Head Marriot Beach and Golf Resort Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
September 27-30	Society for General Microbiology, Society for Medical Microbiology, Society for Virology	Bergen, Norway
September 25-29	Australian Society for Microbiology 2005 National Conference	Canberra, Australia
September 12-16	Society for General Microbiology (SGM) 157th Meeting	Keele, UK
September 01-04	The European Research Group for Oral Biology	Geneva, Switzerland
August 27-31	Pseudomonas 2005	Marseille, France
August 21-25	Society for Industrial Microbiology	Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 21-26	The 9th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology (SAME9)	Helsinki, Finland
August 20-26	International Workshop: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Extremophiles	Kamtchatka, Russia
August 14-19	The Joint International Symposia for Subsurface Microbiology and Environmental Biogeochemistry	Wyoming, USA
July 24-29	Gordon Conference on Applied & Environmental Microbiology	New London, CT, USA
July 23-28	International Union of Microbiological Societies	San Francisco, USA
June 26-29	8th Symposium on Bacterial Genetics and Ecology	Villeurbanne, France
June 12-18	14th International Congress on the Origin of Life	Beijing, China
June 12-15	MicroEngen II	Shanghai, China
June 05-09	105th General Meeting of The American Society for Microbiology	Atlanta, GA USA
June 05-09	5th International Conference on Shallow Lakes	Dalfsen, The Netherlands
June 01-04	7th International Symposium on Microbial Iron Transport Storage and Metabolism	Paris, France
April 24-29	European Geosciences Union - General Assembly 2005	Vienna, Austria
April 10-13	Biofilms 2005 Microbial adhesions to surfaces: Mechanisms and prevention	Arlington, VA USA
April 04-07	Society General Microbiology 156th Meeting	Edinburgh, UK

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