Symposium of the VAAM special interest group "Biology of bacteria producing natural products"

Date:
24.–26. September 2025

Venue:
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie
Königin-Luise-Str. 12-16
14195 Berlin

We are excited to invite you to the VAAM Workshop "Biology of Bacteria Producing Natural Products" 2025, which will take place in Berlin from September 24th to 26th.

This annual workshop provides a platform especially for young scientists to present their latest results in the fields of microbial natural product biology & chemistry, biosynthesis and engineering – contributions in the form of posters plus flash talks or short talks are invited. In the last years, the workshop was attended by 150-250 national and international participants from academia and industry. The workshop is organized on behalf of the interest group "Biology of Bacterial Natural Product Producers", which is a section of the German Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM).

Please feel free to forward this information to anyone interested, including PhD students and postdocs.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Berlin!

For the local organizing committee
Timo Niedermeyer

Registration to the symposium is now open. Deadline: 29.08.2025.

Please use this template to write your abstract, and submit it until 29.08.2025.

Please direct any questions to pharmbio(at)pharmazie.fu-berlin.de

Confirmed plenary speakers:

• Aharon Oren, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science, Israel
  Practicing the World's Oldest Profession
• Bill Gerwick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy, UC San Diego, USA
  Biosynthetic and Artificial Intelligence Insights Efficiently Solve Complex Cyanobacterial Natural Product Structures
• Muriel Gugger, Institut Pasteur, France
  The Pasteur Cultures of Cyanobacteria: A Treasure for Natural Products
• Mitja Remus-Emsermann, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  Ecological consequences of biosurfactant production on leaf surfaces

The program draft can be downloaded here.

Application for the „Hendrik Wolff Preis für massenspektrometrische Methoden in der Mikrobiologie“ is also open.