Sessions | Microbiology Conferences | Microbiology Congress 2026 |London, UK

Novel Antimicrobial Agents and Therapeutic Strategies

New ways to fight infections include creating new types of drugs like antimicrobial peptides and bacteriophages, using advanced tools such as artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to design better medicines, and trying new methods like combining different treatments or targeting the bacteria's ability to cause disease. These approaches help bacteria become less strong, reduce harmful effects from general antibiotics, and offer better chances of treating resistant germs.

Novel antimicrobial agents:

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs)
Bacteriophages
Nanotechnology
Antisense agents
AI-designed drugs

Novel therapeutic strategies:

Combination therapy
Anti-virulence strategies
Biofilm disruption
Host-directed therapies
Drug repurposing
Photodynamic therapy

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Prebiotics & Probiotics

Prebiotics are types of fiber that the body can't digest, but they serve as food for the good bacteria in your gut. Probiotics, on the other hand, are live bacteria and yeast that are found in certain foods and supplements. You can think of prebiotics as the fuel that helps the good bacteria (probiotics) in your gut grow and work better. Both prebiotics and probiotics play a key role in keeping your gut healthy, supporting your immune system, and contributing to your overall health.

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European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | African Society for Laboratory Medicine | Asia-Pacific Society for Medical Virology |

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Microbe-Host Interactions

Microbe-host interactions are the ways microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses, interact with their hosts, like plants and animals. These relationships can be helpful, harmful, or have no effect. The microbes and hosts exchange chemicals and signals, which can result in different outcomes. For example, some microbes live in the gut and help with digestion and make vitamins for humans. On the other hand, harmful microbes can cause sickness by entering host cells and making the immune system respond.

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Australasian Society for Microbiology | British Mycological Society | International Society for Microbial Ecology | Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology |

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Microbial Nanotechnology and Bioengineering

Microbial nanotechnology and bioengineering are fast-growing fields that combine biology, science, and engineering. These areas use tiny living organisms called microbes to create tiny materials, tools, and systems at the nanoscale for many different uses. Microbes are great at making nanoparticles, biopolymers, and biosensors that are safe for the body and better for the environment. They offer a greener and more sustainable way to make these materials compared to traditional methods. Scientists are also improving microbial systems through bioengineering to make them more effective for cleaning up pollution, delivering medicine, making vaccines, and producing useful products. This new field connects microbiology, nanotechnology, and engineering to improve healthcare, protect the environment, and advance industrial processes. It helps find new and better solutions to some of the biggest problems facing the world today.

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Microbial Genomics, Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics

Microbial genomics, metagenomics, and bioinformatics are all fields that study microorganism DNA, but they each focus on different aspects. Microbial genomics looks at the full genetic information of a single type of microorganism. Metagenomics, however, examines all the DNA from many different microbes found together in a sample, like soil or the gut, without separating them first. Bioinformatics is the area that uses computers to manage, analyze, and understand the large data sets created by both genomics and metagenomics.

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Pharmaceutical Microbiology

Pharmaceutical microbiology is the study of tiny living things, like bacteria and fungi, that are important in the world of making medicines. It helps to control these tiny organisms and understand how they affect the medicines being made and the process used to create them. The main aim is to keep medicines safe, high quality, and effective by stopping harmful microbes from getting into the products and by using helpful microbes to make things like antibiotics and vaccines.

Key aspects of pharmaceutical microbiology include:

Contamination control
Sterility assurance
Quality control
Drug development and production

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International Society for Extremophiles | International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry | International Society for Microbial Ecology | Society for Invertebrate Pathology | International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | International Association for Aerobiology | International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) |

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Veterinary Microbiology

Veterinary microbiology is the study of tiny living things like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites that can make animals sick. It plays an important role in veterinary medicine by helping to find these disease-causing organisms, stop the spread of illness, and keep people healthy by managing diseases that can pass between animals and humans. This area of study is essential for the well-being of animals, the health of farm animals, and the safety of the food we eat.

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Water, Food, Agricultural, and Dairy Microbiology

Water, food, agricultural, and dairy microbiology are different areas that look at the tiny living things found in water, food, farm goods, and milk products. Each area mainly studies how these tiny creatures influence safety, quality, and how these things are made.

Water microbiology: Water microbiology is the study of the microorganisms (including bacteria, viruses, and parasites) that live in and contaminate different types of water environments, such as oceans, rivers, lakes, and drinking water sources.

Food microbiology: Food microbiology is the study of microorganisms in food and food production environments. This includes both beneficial microbes used in production and harmful ones that cause spoilage or illness.

Agricultural microbiology: Agricultural microbiology is a branch of microbiology that deals with the relationship between microorganisms and crops, livestock, and soil fertility. The goal is to sustainably enhance food production.

Dairy microbiology: Dairy microbiology is a specialized area of food microbiology focused specifically on milk and milk products. Microbes are crucial at every stage, from production to processing.

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Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada | Clinical Microbiology and Infection Society of Nigeria | Turkish Society of Microbiology | Polish Society of Microbiologists | Spanish Society for Microbiology | French Society for Microbiology |

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Vaccination and Immunology

Vaccination is when a vaccine is given to the body to help its immune system, which is made up of cells and organs that protect the body from harmful things. The vaccine causes the immune system to react in a safe way, so it can learn to recognize and fight certain dangerous germs later on. This helps keep people safe without making them sick with the actual disease.

Immunology: Immunology is the branch of biomedical science that covers all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. The immune system can be broadly divided into two subsystems: the innate (non-specific) and the adaptive (specific) immune systems.

Innate (non-specific) immunity: This system provides the body's first line of defense and reacts broadly to any foreign substance, such as bacteria or viruses, using a set of pre-programmed responses. Components of the innate immune system include:
Adaptive (specific) immunity: This system is highly specific and has memory, meaning it can remember a specific pathogen and mount a faster, more effective response upon re-exposure. The key players include:

Vaccination: Vaccines are medical preparations that exploit the adaptive immune system's ability to "remember" a pathogen. They introduce a harmless version of a germ, or parts of it, to trigger an immune response without causing the disease.

Types of vaccines

Live-attenuated vaccines
Inactivated vaccines
Subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines
Toxoid vaccines
mRNA vaccines
Viral vector vaccines

The synergy between vaccination and immunology has had a profound impact on global health.

Disease prevention
Herd immunity
Research and future applications

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Clinical and Diagnostic Microbiology

Clinical and diagnostic microbiology is a lab-based area that helps find, measure, and understand microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites from patient samples. This helps doctors diagnose and treat infections. The process includes collecting patient samples correctly, using different methods like growing microbes in a lab, looking at them under a microscope, and doing tests to check for specific genetic material. It also includes testing how well different medicines work against the microbes and then sharing the results with doctors to help them make treatment decisions.

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Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

Antimicrobial resistance happens when tiny living things like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change over time and stop responding to the medicines that are supposed to kill them. This makes it harder to cure infections, which can result in worse sickness, longer time in the hospital, and more deaths. While this resistance is a natural occurrence, it spreads much faster because people and animals are often using these medicines incorrectly or too much. This is now seen as a big problem for health around the world.

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Zoonotic Diseases and One Health Approach

Zoonotic diseases are illnesses that can pass from animals to people, such as rabies, bird flu, and COVID-19. The One Health approach is a way for different groups to work together to protect health. It connects human health, animal health, and the environment, and helps stop and deal with these diseases. Experts from all these areas team up to face shared health challenges.

Zoonotic diseases: Zoonotic diseases are caused by pathogens like viruses, bacteria, parasites, or fungi that can jump from a non-human animal to a human.

Examples: Rabies, avian influenza, Ebola, tuberculosis, and COVID-19.

One Health approach: The approach is based on the understanding that the health of people, animals, and the environment are interconnected.

Key components:
It involves:
- Collaboration: Encourages communication and cooperation between different professionals and sectors, such as human and veterinary medicine, ecology, public health, and agriculture.
- Surveillance: Improves disease monitoring and surveillance by monitoring the health of humans, animals, and the environment together to detect outbreaks early.
- Intervention: Promotes integrated strategies for disease control, prevention, and management across all levels.

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Argentine Society for Microbiology | Venezuelan Society for Microbiology | Peruvian Society for Microbiology | Pan American Society for Microbiology |

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Host–Pathogen Interactions and Immune Response

Hosts and pathogens have a ongoing battle where the pathogen tries to enter and use the host's body, while the host's immune system works to find and get rid of the pathogen. The immune system has two parts: the quick, general response called the innate system, and the slower, more targeted response called the adaptive system. Together, these systems help control or eliminate the infection. This interaction can lead to different outcomes, such as the pathogen staying in the body without causing harm, causing a mild illness, or leading to serious disease and even death.

Host–pathogen interactions

Pathogen strategies
Pathogen factors
Pathogen tactics
Dynamic process

Immune response

Innate immunity:
This is the first line of defense.
- Recognition
- Activation
- Effector cells
Adaptive immunity:
This system develops a more specific and long-lasting response to the pathogen.
Antigen presentation
T cells
B cells and antibodies
Memory

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International Food Microbiology Association | International Probiotic Association | International Society for Fermentation Science | Global Microbiome Network |

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Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology, and Parasitology

Bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology are all parts of microbiology that look at different kinds of tiny living things and how they affect our health, cause sickness, and interact with the environment. Bacteriology studies bacteria, virology looks at viruses, mycology focuses on fungi like yeast and mold, and parasitology deals with parasites such as protozoa and worms.

Bacteriology: The study of bacteria.

Researching how bacterial cell walls are constructed, which is the target for certain antibiotics like penicillin

Virology: The study of viruses.

Studying how viruses hijack a cell's machinery to make more copies of themselves.

Mycology: The study of fungi, which includes yeasts and molds.

Culturing fungal samples at a slightly lower temperature ( 30∘C30 raised to the composed with power cap C30∘????) than bacterial cultures to allow slow-growing fungi to develop

Parasitology: The study of parasites, including protozoa and helminths (worms).

Studying diseases like malaria, which is caused by a parasitic protozoan that is transmitted by mosquitoes

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International Society for Marine Microbiology | International Society for Medical Microbiology | International Association for Microbial Biotechnology |

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Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging infectious diseases are new or previously unknown infections that have recently started affecting people in a population. Re-emerging diseases are ones that were around before but are now coming back with more cases or spreading to new areas after a period of fewer cases. Both types are affected by things like more contact between humans and animals, changes in the environment, global travel and trade, and shifts in how people live and behave. Examples of emerging diseases include COVID-19, and examples of re-emerging diseases include tuberculosis.

Emerging infectious diseases: Diseases that are new to a population or whose incidence is rapidly increasing.

Examples:

COVID-19
HIV
Lyme disease
West Nile virus
Dengue fever

Re-emerging infectious diseases: Familiar infections that have reappeared after a significant decline in their incidence, often after being considered no longer a major public health threat.

Examples:

Tuberculosis
Malaria
Cholera
Influenza
Pertussis (whooping cough)

Factors contributing to both:

Ecological changes
Zoonotic origins
Globalization
Human behavior

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International Association for Microbial Genetics | International Society for Agricultural Microbiology |

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Microbial Pathogenesis and Virulence Mechanisms

Microbial pathogenesis refers to how a microbe causes illness. Virulence mechanisms are the specific ways microbes use to do this, like making harmful substances, sticking to host cells, and avoiding the body's defense system. Pathogenicity is the ability of a microbe to cause disease, and virulence describes how strong or severe that disease can be.

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World Federation of Microbiology Societies | International Federation of Biosafety Associations

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Molecular and Cellular Microbiology

Molecular and cellular microbiology is a field that brings together different areas of study to look at how microorganisms work at the molecular and cell level. It mixes molecular biology, which looks at how DNA, RNA, and proteins interact, with cell biology, which focuses on the structure and function of cells, and microbiology, which is the study of microorganisms. This field uses up-to-date scientific techniques to explore all aspects of microbial life, including their basic functions, their impact on health, disease, and the environment.

Key areas of study

Molecular level
Cellular level
Microbial interactions

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International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology | World Federation for Culture Collections |

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Medical and Public Health Microbiology

Medical and Public Health Microbiology are separate but connected areas that study microorganisms to stop, find out, and cure diseases in people. Medical microbiology looks at the germs that make people sick, and it studies how these germs get into the body and how to get rid of them through checking, treating, and stopping infections. Public health microbiology studies microorganisms at a bigger level, like in groups of people, by keeping track of disease spread, watching for outbreaks, and making plans to control how infectious diseases move around in communities.

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International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology | World Federation for Culture Collections | International Association for Food Protection | Italian Society of Microbiology | Portuguese Society for Microbiology | Hellenic Society for Microbiology | Scandinavian Society for Clinical Microbiology | Finnish Society for Microbiology |

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5th International Conference on

Microbiology

June 22-23, 2026London, UK

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