The Applied and Environmental Microbiology GRS provides a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators will facilitate active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators.
The GRS will feature a keynote speaker, two oral scientific sessions, two interactive poster sessions, and a panel discussion with a career mentorship focus. During this panel discussion, participants will have the chance to interact with four experts from various fields, each with diverse career experiences. In 2025, the AEM GRS is designed to balance the content between the Applied and Environmental aspects of our discipline.
This AEM GRS aims to feature work that showcases how the small but mighty microbe generates profound impacts at the ecosystem or industrial scale. For example, does your work explore how microbes terraform the planet, regulate the cycling of nutrients and carbon, form symbioses with macro-scale organisms, or are implicated in a disease state? Alternatively, your work may highlight microbial biotechnology in areas such as bioproduct production, mineral ore bioleaching, microbial agricultural amendments, water treatment, waste degradation, or toxin immobilization. Work modeling or experimentally resolving and quantifying the role of microbes in the environment, or translating lab work to pilot to industrial scale, is encouraged. If you are thinking beyond the beaker, apply to be a speaker, poster presenter, or discussion leader.
We hope this GRS will serve as a venue for collegial debate, a forum to foster new collaborations, and a source of inspiration in both your scientific pursuits and career at large. Join us in exploring how the microscopic actions of many can have a profound impact.
Application Instructions
The seminar will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS, either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.
The seminar chair will select speakers from abstracts submitted by April 6, 2025. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Information section above.
Program Format
Gordon Research Seminars are 2-day meetings which take place on the Saturday and Sunday just prior to the start of the associated GRC. The GRS opens with a 1-hour introductory session on Saturday afternoon, followed by a poster session, dinner and a 2-hour session in the evening. Sunday morning begins with breakfast and is followed by another 2-hour session, a second poster session, and lunch. A final 1-hour session takes place just after lunch, and the associated GRC begins later that evening.
