The eighth edition of this biennial symposium connects fundamental microbiology with technologies that enable new experimental questions. Its scientific scope includes bacterial physiology, microbial communities and microbiomes, interactions with hosts and phages, and bacterial behaviour in natural environments. Systems-level methods and single-cell approaches are considered together, allowing researchers developing new technologies to engage with biological questions and microbiologists to evaluate new ways of testing hypotheses. The programme combines invited and selected contributions with
In Bacteriology and Biology