The EPSO Working Group on Plants and Microbiomes has the pleasure to announce its sixth workshop to take place in Utrecht on 8-9.4.2025.

This sixth workshop has four main themes:

  • Microbiomes of plants / crops – new projects, initiatives and scientific highlights:
    • Cereals
    • Legumes
    • Potato
    • Trees
    • Fruits & vegetables
  • Development of best practices and recommendations – Minimum metadata requirements and pre-analytic parameters
  • New microbiome technologies
  • Coordination of plant microbiome research.

The meeting intends to increase collaboration between the working group members. Recommendations from the workshop will be provided to the scientific community, the European Commission and national agencies.

To develop the programme further, we kindly ask you to contribute by submitting a very short outline and indicate to which programme theme / topic this refers, to [email protected]  until 13 December 2024.

We look forward to meeting you in April

Angela Sessitsch, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Corné Pieterse and Karin Metzlaff

Click here to read: The workshop Draft Programme 23.9.2024

Contacts:

Corné Pieterse, Angela Sessitsch, Paul Schulze-Lefert and Karin Metzlaff