Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

The advent of new sequencing and imaging technologies is providing a whole new level of understanding of whole microbial communities as structurally organized and temporally coherent biogeochemical entities. This understanding and the power to control the development and fate of microbial populations is key to biotechnological and industrial applications. The topics of this session will focus on the use of integrative molecular approaches to study microbial ecosystems, understanding top-down versus bottom-up controls, niche adaptation, resilience to perturbation and interactions between members of the community.

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