6th World Congress and Expo on Applied Microbiology October 21-22, 2019 Rome, Italy

Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance (AAR) will cover a range of important topics. One of the major challenges today is the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance, with the emergence of "untreatable" microbes causing diseases that were once readily treatable. The AAR track is the best place to find information regarding new antimicrobial agent discovery, preclinical investigations of new antimicrobial drugs in the pipeline, and first-look data of human clinical trials using new antimicrobial agents. 

Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance includes

• Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance: Molecular Typing, Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology
• Antimicrobial Agents: Mechanisms of Action and Mechanisms of Resistance
• Antifungal Agents and Resistance
• Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and General Pharmacology
• Antimicrobial Stewardship, including Quality of Care 
• Antiviral Agents (including HIV Drugs) and Resistance
• Experimental Therapeutics
• New Antimicrobial Agents (Pre-US IND or Prior to the Start of Clinical Therapeutic Studies/pre-Phase 2) and New Research Technologies
• Pharmacological Studies of Antimicrobial Agents Pre-NDA (Phase 2/3)

Clinical Infections and Vaccines (CIV)  will cover a range of important topics relevant to Infectious diseases and their impact on human health. The latest information on common healthcare-associated infections, such as Clostridium difficile, Pneumonia, and complicated urinary tract infections and others will be featured in this track. The science in this track works to bring together angstrom-level discovery and clinical research to reduce the burden of infectious diseases around the globe. 

Clinical Infections and Vaccines includes

• Clinical Studies of Adult Infectious Diseases, including Clinical Trials and Diseases caused by Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, Prions or Parasites
• Infection Prevention and Control: Healthcare-associated and Surgical Infections and Clinical Epidemiology
• Global Health
• Transplant Infectious Diseases
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Vaccines and Immunization Science

Clinical and Public Health Microbiology (CPHM) has always been well-represented at Applied Microbiology Conferences, Meetings and will continue to be so at Applied Microbiology-2019. Thorough coverage of the science of antibiotic susceptibility testing: new protocols, new drug panels, new drugs in the pipeline, and new organisms to test are among the most important part of the track. Sessions in this track will also deep dive into testing and treatment of all clinically important microbe with growing incidence.

Clinical and Public Health Microbiology includes

• Administering the Clinical/Public Health Microbiology Laboratory
• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
• Diagnostic Bacteriology, Diagnostic Mycobacteriology, Diagnostic Mycology, Diagnostic Parasitology, Diagnostic Virology 
• Diagnostic Immunology
• Diagnostic Public Health Microbiology 
• Diagnostic Veterinary Microbiology
• Laboratory Safety, Security, and Biodefense 
• Molecular Diagnostic Microbiology
• Laboratory Informatics Practical Tools for Bench Technologists

Pharmaceutical Microbiology is an applied branch of Microbiology. It involves the study of Microorganisms associated with the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. Other aspects of Pharmaceutical Microbiology include the research and development of anti-infective agents, the use of microorganisms to detect mutagenic and carcinogenic activity in prospective drugs, and the use of microorganisms in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products like insulin and human growth hormone.

Pharmaceutical Microbiology includes

• Microbial Ecology and Next Gen Sequencing
• Drug discovery, Development and Molecular biology
• Additional Applications of Microorganisms in the Pharmaceutical Sciences

Industrial microbiology is primarily associated with the commercial exploitation of microorganisms, and involves processes and products that are of major economic, environmental and gregarious consequentiality throughout the world.

Industrial Microbiology, Microbial Biotechnology and Future Bioindustries includes

• Industrial Processes end products
• Bioprocess Engineering and Systems Biology
• Microfactories-Microbial Production of Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
• Biosurfactants: Purification, Mass Production, Applications
• Biotechnologically relevant Enzymes and Proteins
• Fermentation and Biotransformation
• Quantitative Models and Bioinformatics in Microbiology
• Bioremediation, Biodegradation, Biofouling and Biocorrosion
• Application of -Omics Technologies in Microbial Fermentation
• Applications of Bioinformatics and Biocomputing to Microbiological Research
• Municipal Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Municipal and Industrial Solid Waste Treatment

Applied and Environmental Science (AES) is well-covered in the program of Applied Microbiology-2019. The most exciting findings in this field in the last few years will be presented including recent, game-changing discoveries of microbial players and physiologies in the major Biogeochemical Cycles, Microbial Interactions, Electromicrobiology and Syntheticmicrobiology.

Applied and Environmental Science includes

• Aeromicrobiology
• Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment
• Biofilms in Applied and Environmental Science
• Biofuels and Bioproducts
• Electromicrobiology
• Genetic and Metabolic Functions in Environmentally Relevant Microbes
• Microbiology of the Built Environment
• New Microbial Processes for Resource Recovery, Carbon Capture and Resource Efficiency
• Detecting, Characterization, and Source-tracking of Environmental Microbes
• Synthetic Biology
• Geomicrobiology

Host-Microbe Biology (HMB), sessions on studying phages, conflict and resolution in evolution, bacterial warfare within the host, and more will cover the cutting-edge biology in the field.

Host-Microbe Biology includes

• Animal Infections
• Genetic and Physiological Adaptation to the Host
• Host Response to Microbes
• Cellular/Molecular Host-Microbe Interactions
• Invasion and Survival in Host Cells
• Manipulations of Host Functions by Microbes
• Microbe-Plant Interactions
• Microbial Symbioses with Invertebrate Hosts
• Microbiome-Host Interactions
• Phage-Host Interactions
• Polymicrobial Pathogenicity and Symbiosis
• Sepsis and Inflammation
• Surface Structures of Pathogenic Microbes
• Toxins and Secreted Factors
• Virulence Regulatory Mechanisms
• Virus-Host Interactions
• Microbial Metabolism and Host Association
• Anti-pathogen Strategies

Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity, formerly the Microbial Ecology and Evolution track encompasses many aspects of microbial and phage ecology and the roles of microbes in their natural environments. Our rapidly advancing knowledge of the complexity, immense diversity, and important roles of natural microbial communities will be highlighted in many of the exciting EEB sessions.

Microbial Ecology and Evolution includes

• Biofilms in Ecological and Evolutionary Science
• Biogeochemical Processes and Systems Biology
• Climate Change and Microbes
• Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics
• Ecology and Evolution of Viruses and Phage
• Ecological and Evolutionary Modeling and Theory
• 'omics to Study Ecosystem Function
• Patterns, Mechanisms and Experimental Approaches in Molecular Evolution
• Polymicrobial Interactions of Ecological or Evolutionary Significance
• Systems Biology
• Unusual Microbes and Extreme Environments

Molecular Biology and Physiology (MBP) covers the full spectrum of molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie microbiological phenomena. The shared emphasis in the various MBP sub-tracks is to achieve a detailed mechanistic understanding of microbial life at the cellular and molecular level.

Molecular Biology and Physiology includes

• Assembly and Structure of Complexes
• Computational Genomics, Databases and Modeling
• Enzyme Mechanisms
• Eukaryotic Cell Biology
• Gene Regulatory Mechanisms
• Genome Dynamics and Horizontal Gene Transfer
• Growth and Development of Microbial Cells
• Metabolic Networks and Microbial Physiology 
• Molecular Biology and Physiology of Biofilms
• Motility Mechanisms
• New Genetic and Genomic Tools
• Phage Biology and Genomics
• Replication/Repair/Recombination
• Protein Secretion and Surface Localization 
• Stress and Stimulus Response Mechanisms
• Structural Biology
• Virus Assembly Mechanisms

Exciting developments in Food Microbiology has been the availability and application of molecular analyses that have allowed scientists to address microbial food safety questions beyond merely determining whether particular pathogens are in a food. Such global analyses are allowing scientists to ask deeper questions regarding food-borne pathogens and are currently leading the way to ascertaining the genes, proteins, networks, and cellular mechanisms that determine the persistence of strains in foods and other environments, determine why certain strains are more commonly isolated from foods, and determine why certain strains are more pathogenic. Such molecular tools are also making it possible to more fully determine the microflora present in foods along with pathogens, and to assess the effect that the food microbiota has on the death, survival, and pathogenicity of food borne pathogens.

Food Microbiology includes

• Microbiology of Food, including Spoilage, Fermentation and Probiotics
• Foodborne Pathogens: Microbiology and Molecular Biology
• Bacillus cereus, Clostridium, Shigella, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio spp., Yersinia enterocolitica

The track is organized into three thematic sessions: Soil Microbiology, Water Microbiology, and Environmental Biotechnology. The first sessions includes researches on soil as a habitat for microorganisms, and introduces the main types of soil microorganisms, how they interact with the soil, and the techniques used in their analysis. In the second section includes Freshwater, Wastewater, and Drinking Water Microbiology and assays of microbial pathogens-bacteria, viruses, and protozoan parasites which are used in food and water quality control as well as an exercise in applied bioremediation of contaminants in water. Environmental Microbiology also includes the study of microorganisms that exist in artificial environments such as bioreactors.

We are in the era of speed and precision. Like many other disciplines in environmental biology, aquatic microbiology tends to move forward with new rapid and cutting edge tools to study water-related microorganisms from river banks to the abyss of the oceans. These innovations help to resolve the issues with determining the risks associated with climate change, human activities as well as the interactions between species to redefine what a healthy water environment is for all living organisms sharing these environments.

Aquatic and Marine Microbiology includes

•  Aquatic Microorganisms
• Techniques for the Study of Aquatic Microorganisms
• Distribution of Microorganisms in the Aquatic Environment
• The Role and Importance of Aquatic Microbial Ecosystems
• Productivity of Aquatic Ecosystems
• Biogeochemical Transformations
• Bacterial indication of water pollution
• Inorganic nitrogen assimilation in aquatic microorganisms
• Protozoan predation in batch and continuous culture
• Methods in sediment microbiology
• Freshwater, Wastewater, Drinking Water and Marine Microbiology 

Containing the latest information on Pathogenesis and Diagnosis, Veterinary Microbiology addresses both specific, defined problems, as well as trends in host/parasite interaction. This session is a complete reference on microbial biology, diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and control. Also foundation of knowledge on pathogens and how they interact with hosts.

Veterinary Microbiology includes

• Veterinary Mycology
• Veterinary Bacteriology

Plant Pathology outlines how to recognize, treat, and prevent plant diseases. It covers the wide spectrum of abiotic, fungal, viral, bacterial, nematode and other plant diseases and their associated epidemiology. It also covers the genetics of resistance and modern management on plant disease.

Plant Pathology and Microbiology includes

• Parasitism and Disease Development
• Effects of pathogens on plant physiological functions
• Genetics of plant disease
• How pathogens attack plants And How plants defend themselves against pathogens
• Plant Diseases caused by Fungi, Prokaryotes, Viruses, Nematodes, Flagellate Protozoa, Parasitic Higher Plants, Invasive higher plants, and Parasitic green plants
• Control of plant diseases

Agricultural Microbiology covers topics related to the role of microorganisms in the mobilization of nutrients for plant growth such as the relationship of microbial genetics and biological nitrogen; plant surface microflora and plant nutrition; developments in grass-bacteria associations; discusses the use of microorganisms in the management of pathogens, pests, and weeds and includes topics such as the microbial control of insect pests; microbial herbicides; and agricultural antibiotics. It also strategies in bioconversion such as the production of biogas from agricultural wastes; bioconversion of lignocelluloses into protein-rich food and feed; and ethanol fuel from biomass.

Agricultural and Forest Microbiology includes

• Microorganisms and Mobilization of Nutrients for Plant Growth
• Management of Pathogens, Pests and Weeds through Microorganisms
• New Strategies in Bioconversion
• Microbiology of Agricultural Systems

The Profession of Microbiology (POM) track is everybody's track. No matter what area of microbiology you work in and what stage in your career you're at, the topics covered in POM are things you can use right away in your own practice, from improving your communication and teaching skills to getting out in the community and being an advocate for the microbial sciences!

Profession of Microbiology includes

• Microbiology Education, Communication, and Outreach
• Microbiology Research and Policy Environments
• History of Microbiology