Conference Program

Tuesday (September 12)
Venue: Eötvös Loránd University, Harmónia Hall (1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter stny 1/A)
Soft Skill Workshop for Young Scientists - Career Opportunities and Networking
9:00 Michaela Salcher: There and back again: Moving from Western to Eastern Central Europe in a scientific career
9:45 Anna Székely: Experiences of surviving Western academia with an Eastern PhD
10:30 Hans-Peter Grossart: Global networking: benefits and excitement
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Aleksandra Ziembińska-Buczyńska: Science communication in environmental research – will, necessity or demand?
13:15 Lunch Break
14:30 Lisa Stein & Colin Murrell: Publishing with ISME Journals
18:00 ISME Ambassadors Meeting
Wednesday (September 13)
Venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Great Hall (1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 9.)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 Attila Szabó
Plenary Talks Microbes Beneath our Feet
9:30 Petr Baldrian: Forest soil microbiome: who does what and when (and why)
10:00 Colin Murrell: Focussed and functional metagenomics; a case study of trace gas metabolism
10:30 Coffee Break
Oral Talks
11:00 Vendula Brabcová: Microbiome of decomposing branches: Climate sensitive biodiversity source in managed forest
11:12 Ovidiu Copot: Usefulness of the environmental DNA for fungal Red Listing
11:24 Ariel Marchlewicz: Ecosystem Health Implications: Through the Microbial Breakdown and Environmental Destiny of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
11:36 John Kupagme: African soil fungi: Drivers of diversity and community composition
11:48 Izabela Mujakić: Multi-environment ecogenomics analysis of the cosmopolitan phylum Gemmatimonadota
12:00 Balázs Vajna: Effect of an extreme drought and rain manipulations on soil microbial communities in a sandy grassland
12:12 Tijana Martinović: Uncovering microbial carbon utilization in forest soil through stable isotope probing
12:24 Jane Oja: Never home alone: global diversity and distribution of indoor microbial communities
12:36 József Geml: Landscape ecology of arctic ectomycorrhizal fungi in tundra ecosystems of northern Alaska
12:48 Lunch Break
Plenary Talks Welcomed and Unwelcomed Residents: Insights into Interactions
14:30 Kostas Kormas: Understanding fish microbiomes through ecological principles and concepts
15:00 Bogdan Druga: The impact of climate change on microalgae and consequences for human society
Oral Talks
15:30 Michal Karlicki: Plastid-genome resolved metagenomics reveals diversity of photosynthetic microbial eukaryotes in the long-term study of freshwater lakes
15:42 Adrienn Geiger: Microhabitats show stronger impact on grapevine mycobiome than cultivar, season, or health state
15:54 Jason Bosch: Decomposition of Fomes fomentarius fruiting bodies is primarily driven by Arthropoda
16:10 Coffee Break
16:40 Roey Angel: What do millipedes actually eat, and how is their microbiome involved?
16:52 Niloufar Hagh-Doust: Global Diversity of Leaf-Associated Bacterial and Fungal Communities
17:04 Chetna Tyagi: Bioactive peptaibols from clade Longibrachiatum of Trichoderma against phytopathogenic bacteria: combining experimental and theoretical approaches
17:30 Poster Session (Krúdy Hall)
19:00 - 21:30 Welcome reception (Krúdy Hall)
Thursday (September 14)
Venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Great Hall (1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 9.)
Plenary Talks Microbes Thriving in Extreme Environments
9:00 Natalie Barteneva: Beneath the surface: imaging and spectral cytometry combined with next-generation sequencing in analysis of algal-microbial communities
9:30 Hovik Panosyan: Exploring of thermophiles of terrestrial geothermal springs in Lesser Caucasus
Oral Talks
10:00 Nurgul Balci: Microbial diversity of hydromagnesite microbialites in Lake Salda, A Mars Analog Lake
10:12 Zsuzsanna Márton: Contrasting Response of Microeukaryotic and Bacterial Communities to the Interplay of Seasonality and Local Stressors in Shallow Soda Lakes
10:24 Peter Pristas: Where to find halophilic bacteria in inland country
10:36 Munavvara Dzhuraeva: Draft genome sequencing of the two thermophilic anaerobes feather-degrading bacterial isolates from high-altitude geothermal springs in Tajikistan
10:48 David Kaftan: Constitutive photosynthetic activity in arctic AAP Sediminicoccus rosea KRV36
11:00 Coffee Break
Oral Talks
Harnessing Microbial Power
11:30 Marcell Nikolausz: Anna Karenina ecological principle in biogas reactor microbiology: stochasticity under ammonia stress
11:42 Aleksandra Ziembińska-Buczyńska: Nitrogen removal bacteria communities’ characteristics in the lab-scale wastewater treatment systems
11:54 Zsuzsanna Nagymáté: Effect of bioremediation techniques supplemented with a newly developed bioaugmentation agent on the organohalide-respiring microbial communities
12:06 Adela Teban-Man: Tracking carbapenem resistance in municipal wastewater: spatio-temporal variation, bacterial diversity, and environmental impact
12:18 Dóra Balázs: Comprehensive examination of peptaibol compounds and preparation of their future agricultural application
12:30 Knisz Judit: Microbially Influenced Corrosion – More than just Microbes
12:42 Anna Dzionek: Stenotrophomonas terrae BB3 – a new bacterial strain capable of degrade metoprolol
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Plenary Talks
From Sassy Swimmers to Microscopic Mischief
14:00 Sandi Orlic: Methane cycling bacteria in Croatian lakes
14:30 Meryem Beklioglu: The Microbial Loop in Lake Ecosystems: Structure and Control
Oral Talks
15:00 Cristian Villena Alemany: Exploring the Ecological Significance of Aerobic Anoxygenic Photoheterotrophic Bacteria in Freshwater Ecosystems
15:12 Agnieszka Nowak: Iodinated contrast media in wastewater – occurrences and implications to activated sludge
15:24 Anita Perkins: Fungi increases kelp (Ecklonia radiata) remineralisation and dissolved organic carbon, alkalinity, and dimethyl sulfoniopropionate production
15:36 Boglárka Somogyi: Diversity and ecological role of the smallest algae in turbid and saline lakes
15:48 Edina Szekeres: Diversity and core taxa of the karst spring microbiome and community response to pathogen and antibiotic resistance gene contamination
16:00 Indranil Mukherjee: Reassembly of planktonic protistan community and modulation of microbial food web during the establishment of stratification in Řimov reservoir
16:12 András Hidas: Microbial community dynamics and interactions during the winter-spring transition in a large shallow lake
16:24 Michal Koblížek: Cold-loving bacterium from a mountain lake harvests light energy using both bacteriochlorophyll-containing photosyntems as well as proton-pumping rhodopsins
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Round Table Discussion
18:00 - 18:15 Closing remarks: Kasia Piwosz
20:00 Social gathering: Grund, address: 1082 Budapest, Nagy Templom utca 30.
Friday (September 15)
Post-Conference Activities
10:00 - approx. 13:00 Microbial Highlights of Buda
10:00 - approx. 12:00 Cultural Highlights of Pest
08:30 - approx. 15:00-16:00 The Hungarian Puszta – a Microbiological Treasure-box
18:00 Wine tasting at Kálvária Winery