The focus of the Conference will be on the following themes:
1. Metabolic complexity of agricultural and natural environments
1. Metabolic complexity of agricultural and natural environments
2. The complexity of food ecosystems: physiology of single strains in pure
culture vs. complex consortia
3. Genes and functions in complex microbial communities
4. New tools and strategies to unravel the complexity of microbial diversity
5. Metaorganisms :functional Interdependency of microbial associations with
plants, animals and humans
6. Bringing the microbial complexity in the industrial environment
Conference Rationale and General Purpose
After the success of the 2nd International Conference on Microbial Diversity: 2013- Microbial
Interactions in Complex Ecosystems, SIMTREA is glad to launch the third edition of the
conference titled: “The challenge of Complexity”. The meeting aims to gather scientists in the
fields of agricultural, environmental and food microbiology in order to promote discussion and
exchange of information and experiences regarding the complexity intrinsic in microbial
biodiversity. Biology has long been defined the science of complexity for the wealth of
relationships among organisms and between the biotic and abiotic components of the environment.
In this frame, the increasing awareness of the complexity involved in Microbial Diversity is fueled
by unprecedented microbiological studies, innovative technologies in molecular biology and
increasing data interpretation efficiency with bioinformatics tools. This perspective poses exciting
challenges in terms of methods and substance, which constitute the two scientific standpoints of the
MD2015 Symposium.SCIENTIFIC COMMETTEE
GIANLUIGI CARDINALI University of Perugia (I)
SERGIO CASELLA University of Padua (I)
PIERSANDRO COCCONCELLI UCSC Piacenza (I)
LUCA COCOLIN University of Turin (I)
DANIELE DAFFONCHIO University of Milan (I)
BERNARD DUJON Institut Pasteur (F)
MARCO GOBBETTI University of Bari (I)
PETER N. GOLYSHIN Bangor University (UK)
NIKOLAS KALOGERAKIS Technical University of Crete (GR)
CLETUS P. KURTZMAN USDA-ARS (USA)
SYLVIE LORTAL INRA-Rennes (F)
ERASMO NEVIANI University of Parma (I)
PAUL W. O’TOOLE University College Cork (IRL)
VINCENT ROBERT CBS Utrecht (NL)
IAN DIRK VAN ELSAS University of Groningen (NL)
RUDI VOGEL Technische Universität (D)
ORGANIZING COMMETTEE
GIANLUIGI CARDINALI University of Perugia (I) (Chair)
PIETRO BUZZINI University of Perugia (I)
LUCA COCOLIN University of Turin (I)
CLAUDIA COLABELLA University of Perugia (I)
DE VINCENZI SERGIO University of Perugia (I)
LAURA CORTE University of Perugia (I)
MARCO GOBBETTI University of Bari (I)
CECILIA LUCARELLI University of Perugia (I)
ERASMO NEVIANI University of Parma (I)
EMANUELE PITARI University of Perugia (I)
LUCA ROSCINI University of Perugia (I)
MATTEO TIECCO University of Perugia (I)
CONTACTS
GIANLUIGI CARDINALI
gianluigi.cardinali@unipg.it
LAURA CORTE
laura.corte@unipg.it
