The 13^th Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacteria will be online three day symposium.

 

 August, 23 – 25 2021

      

 

The Symposium is organised under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Society for Microbiology (KNVM) and the Federation of European Microbiological Societies(FEMS).

 

Aim of the Symposium

Throughout the world Lactic Acid Bacteria play important roles in the production of food and feed, and promote health through different probiotic applications. The incessant scientific and industrial interest in these microorganisms continues to provide many important scientific breakthroughs and new applications.

This series of tri-annual symposia on Lactic Acid Bacteria was started in 1983 to communicate and stimulate research on Lactic Acid Bacteria and their application. The aim of these LAB symposia is to offer a unique platform for academic and industrial researchers interested in the state of the art of LAB research, to present recent work, to obtain information on new developments and to exchange views with colleagues from all over the world on scientific progress and applications.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create so much uncertainty about travel and meeting possibilities, even for the end of August 2021, that the LAB13 organising committee was faced with a huge dilemma. The LAB symposia are characterised by their strong social interactions, and how can we preserve that when it looks like we cannot physically meet?

We felt strongly that the community, especially the PhD students and postdocs, cannot wait any longer to reconnect and interact with the LAB family. Therefore, we decided to go ahead and organize LAB13 in 2021 as an online conference. The focus is as much as possible on live interactions via poster sessions, and online keynote presentations. We hope you will be able to support this decision with your presence at the symposium.

Scientific programme

The programme will include invited plenary lectures providing overviews of state-of-the-art developments in five selected scientific areas; short plenary lectures that cover the most recent advances in LAB research and application; as well as several poster sessions.

The scientific areas that will be covered are

[1] Microbial Communities,

[2] Genetics and Genomics,

[3] Fermentation and Metabolism,

[4] Host-Microbe Interactions,

[5] Bacteriophages and Antimicrobials.

In addition, leading scientists from outside the LAB-community will be included in the Programme for coverage of important emerging fields. Finally, the Programme encompasses two thematic sessions and two plenary poster-flash sessions.

All participants will receive an Abstract Book containing extended abstracts of the invited short lectures and poster abstracts, as well as the Proceedings Book that will be published as a special edition of FEMS Microbiology Reviews.

Poster contributions in all areas of research on Lactic Acid Bacteria, especially on industrial applications, are encouraged. There will be ample time for poster viewing and the posters will be on display during the whole Symposium.

 

Practical information

Language

The symposium language will be English.

Please forward all further correspondence to :

For scientific matters:
Dr. John Chapman (Secretary)
Unilever Research & Development
Postbus 114
3130 AC Vlaardingen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-10-4605247
E-mail: john.chapman@unilever.com