Annual Conference 2019 of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
March 17-20, 2019, Mainz, German
MoBiTec will be at the industrial exhibition. Please visit our booth!
Welcome note
Dear colleagues and friends,
Dear members of the Microbial Community,
We were pleased to welcome you to Mainz, the state capital of Rhineland Palatine. Colleagues from the two major universities in the state, Mainz and Kaiserslautern, have been organising this 2019 annual conference. This is among the many efforts to intensify the interaction of microbiologists at both locations as we share a strong interest in microbial signaling.
Over three decades ago, the German branch of the ASM held one of its first conferences in Mainz with 311 scientists attending.
Mainz is located within the heart of Europe and has a long-standing connection to viticulture. It is one out of worldwide ten Great Wine Capitals, which share a key economic and cultural asset: their internationally renowned wine regions. People in Rhineland Palatine are open-minded and outgoing. They also like to enjoy food and drinks, especially the “three W”: Weck” (bread rolls), “Worscht” (sausage) and “Woi” (wine). We hope you have been able to taste it as well during the conference.
With our very best wishes
Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel, Eckhard Thines and Gottfried Unden