Scientific Scope

Accentuated topic

to be specified within Environmental Microbiology...

Agricultural and Food Microbiology

Omics of soil – plant – animal – microbe interactions in crop production; Omics approaches in soil fertility investigations; Biotization, rhizosphere and phyllosphere technology; Forest microbiom; Bio-indication and bio-sensorics; Improvement of microbiological safety of foods; Food safety and agricultural raw materials, microbiological risk assessment; Wine and wineyard microbiome; Pro- and prebiotics, biopreservation; Microbial interactomics; Adaptomics in the food chain

Bacteriology

Molecular biology, physiology and evolution of bacteria; Application of “omics” in bacterial research, diagnosis, preventive efforts and epidemiology; The role of bacterial microbiome in homeostasis and disease; Human and veterinary bacterial pathogens and pathogenesis; Genetic background and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance; Bacteriophages

Clinical and Diagnostic Microbiology

Case reports; Possibilities and restrictions in gene therapy; Diagnostic methods; STD-STI (syphilis, HIV/AIDS, genital herpes, HPV, Chlamydia infections); Microbial interactions; Resistomics and treatment options

Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology

Novel culture techniques to reveal the hidden diversity; Microbial taxonomy in the omics era; Functionomics of microbial communities; Biodiversity and adaptation of extremophiles, paleomicrobiology; Metagenomics in the environmental microbiology; Biogeochemical cycles and climate change; Microbial ecology of artificial and polluted environments; Single-cell based omics techniques; Microbiom of classical and novel environmental biotechnologies

Immunology and Parasitology

Infection and immunity; Immunogenetics, immunodiagnostics; Control of infectious diseases: vaccination; Application of lipidomics approaches in understanding chronic microbial infections; Proteomic approaches in understanding the function of microbiome; Host-parasite interactions, new and emerging parasitic diseases; Protozoa in the human microbiome; Helminthology, and protozoal diseases, taxonomic questions of parasites

Industrial Microbiology – Fungal Industrial Biotechnology

Microbial and non-microbial fermentations and bioconversions; Fungal (Ascomycota, Basidiomycota) platforms in industrial biotechnology; Applied fungal genomics; Molecular physiology of enzyme and metabolite overflow; Biochemical engineering, bioreactor design, modelling; Fermentation analytics and control

Mycology

Evolution and phylogenetics of fungi; Fungal cell biology and physiology; Genetics, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics of fungi; New tools for fungal genome engineering; Fungi as pathogens, host-fungal interactions, epidemiology; Diagnostic methods and platforms in mycology; Applied mycology

Plant Virology

All aspects of plant virology; Molecular mechanisms of plant-virus interactions; consequences of plant virus infection; pathogenesis of viral diseases, virus genomics, virus metagenomics, evolutionary and ecological aspects of plant viruses and possible use of plant viruses in biotechnology

Virology

All aspects of human and animal viruses; Evolution of viruses, molecular virology, tumour inducing viruses; Pathogenesis of virus diseases, virushost interaction; Diagnostics of viral diseases; Novel endogenic and exogenic retroviruses in the pathogenesis of human diseases, aging and viruses; Vaccination and therapy, bioterrorism; Viral genomics, metagenomics, epigenomics, transciptomics, proteomics; virome