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The SBIMC/BVIKM in collaboration with the Hospital Farmacists of Belgium, hosts the symposium ‘Antimicrobial Stewardship: Integrating Theory, Practice and Technology’ at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels on 19 October. You can find all details via this link: https://sbimc-bvikm.be/en/events/symposia/antimicrobial-stewardship-integrating-theory-practice-and-technology

On Sunday 28th of May 2023, YBSM gave a presentation at Nerdland Festival, the biggest open-air science festival in Belgium. Check it out.

Tthe Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) special group “Space Microbiology”, invites you to our interdisciplinary event: the “BigBang…Microbes! – Workshop on Cultivation of the Uncultivationales!”. Date: Sept. 28 & 29, 2023. Place: :envihab @ DLR, Cologne/Köln.
The event focuses on the cultivation of microorganisms, the isolation and characterization of (new) strains as well as microbial communities, their application or utility in wide variety of applications fields from basic to applied research, e.g., biotechnology, chemistry, medicine, agriculture, food industry and aerospace.
We would like to cordially invite all interested scientists, especially early career and experienced scientists such PhD students, PostDocs and early PIs to submit their interest to participate and an abstract on their research to “weltraummikrobiologie@dlr.de” (before July 1st, 2023). See flyer for more information.

The next deadline to apply for FEMS Industry Placement Grants is approaching soon (February 1^st). Members of FEMS Member Societies can apply to collect experience in industry.

The 23rd Heremans Lecture, which will be given by Professor Lluis QUINTANA-MURCI, who will enlighten us on the immune response variation: “From Neanderthals to COVID-19: genetic and evolutionary sources of human immune response variation”. 

The lecture will take place on Monday, October 10 at 5:00 PM, in the auditorium A (Lacroix) on the UCL Health Sciences campus in Brussels. It will be followed by a reception at the de Duve Institute.

We are excited to present to you “International Microorganism Day 2022”, a day on which we commemorate the discovery of these tiny creatures by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676.