3rd Meeting of the Swiss Microbial Ecology (SME) group

The 3rd meeting of the Swiss Microbial Ecology (SME) group will take place in the Schweizer Jugend- und Bildungszentrum Einsiedeln from 28. to 30. January 2009.

All participants can be accommodated at this unique location, situated between the Einsiedeln monastery and the Sihlsee.

Altogether about 100 scientists (from master students to professors) are expected to meet in Einsiedeln. The meeting place offers many possibilities also for social get-together (a billiard room, a bowling alley, a small bar, etc).

The organizers particularly want to encourage young scientists (master and PhD students) to actively participate in this meeting, and there will be special awards for the best presentations (posters and talks) given by young scientists.

The goal of the meeting is to bring together scientists from Switzerland that study a large diversity of topics within microbial (bacteria & protists) ecology in order to promote scientific exchange between distanced subjects (e.g., research in soil, air and aquatic habitats, symbiosis, etc.), to discuss common approaches and standardize methods. The meeting will help to establish new fruitful collaborations.

The SME group is a subgroup of the Swiss Society for Microbiology.