We are happy to announce our five keynote speakers:

Cornelia Welte, Germany

(Climate change microbiology: unravelling the ecophysiology of methane cycling archaea)

Jorge Galan, USA

(Pathogenicity, Type III protein secretion, salmonella)

Nathalie Balaban, Israel

(Preventing the evolution of antibiotic resistance)

Janet Jansson, USA

(Soil microbiomes: From metagenomes to Metaphenomes)

Ken-ichi Yoshida, Japan

(Bacillus subtilis cell actories for production of scyllo-inositol, a promising therapeutic agent in Alzheimer's disease)