Conference

Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 2025

Networking across scales

Sun 15.– Thu 19.6.2025, Helsinki, Finland

We are pleased to welcome you to the fifth conference on the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms to be held in Helsinki, Finland in June 2025. The previous meetings attracted participants from all over the world. The ESM conference is an interdisciplinary platform addressing questions related to individual microbes (archaea, bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, protozoa and viruses), microbial communities and their ecological networks. Modern genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic methods are linked with approaches based on soil chemical, biochemical and functional analyses, exploration of soil fauna and plant ecology. We cordially invite experts from all these disciplines to join us in Helsinki to promote state-of-the-art research in the field of soil ecology and enjoy the northern midsummer madness!

The call for abstracts and registration is open.

Call for abstracts is open untill 24th of February 2025

Early bird price is valid until 1st of April 2025.

Confirmed speakers

Philip Poole	Oxford University
Nerea Abrego	University of Jyväskylä
Petr Baldrian	Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Joanne Emerson	University of California
Chris Greening	Monash University
Jenni Hultman	Natural Resources Institute Finland
Björn Lindahl	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Petr Kohout	Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Ellen Kandeler	University of Hohenheim
Elly Morriën	University of Amsterdam
Christoph Tebbe	Thünen Institute

Further information:

microbes@luke.fi (sing up, general enquiries and to add your name to the mailing list)

https://www.myhelsinki.fi/fi/en (more information on Helsinki)