FEMS Summer School for Postdocs
The Summer School aims to foster a mindset of translating cutting-edge technologies from the research bench to scalable industrial applications. It focuses on state-of-the-art in vitro and in vivo technologies that can be used to engineer microbes for a range of novel industrial, environmental, and healthcare applications. In many cases, these applications are designed to replace existing energy-intensive processes that currently rely on non-sustainable substrates and energy sources.
- Summer School for Postdocs 2025 – applications open, deadline 18 April
- Ohrid, North Macedonia, 2-10 September 2025
- Theme: Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and OneHealth
- Co-Directors: Prof. Joana Falcao Salles, and Prof. Tillman Lüders
Previous Summer Schools for Postdocs
You can find information on previous editions of the Summer School for Postdocs below:
- Summer School for Postdocs 2024
- Theme: Climate Change: Challenges and Influence on Microbial Safety of Water and Food
- Co-Directors: Prof. Lisa Y. Stein, and Prof. Andreja Rajkovic
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- Summer School for Postdocs 2023
- Theme: Cutting-edge Microbial Technologies for a Sustainable Industrial Future
- Co-Directors: Prof. Colin Harwood, Prof. Ken-ichi Yoshida and Prof. Miroslav Radman
- Gallery
- Summer School for Postdocs 2022
- Theme: Microbiology for a Sustainable Future
- Co-Directors: Prof. Hilary Lappin-Scott, Prof. Max M. Häggblom, and Prof. Miroslav Radman
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- Summer School for Postdocs 2021 (postponed to 2022)
- Theme: Microbial Evolvability Mechanisms: Resistance, Biology, and Strategies to Defeat and Detect
- Co-Directors: Prof. Susan Rosenberg and Prof. Christophe Herman
- Video Overview
- Theme: Microbial Evolvability Mechanisms: Resistance, Biology, and Strategies to Defeat and Detect
- Summer School for Postdocs 2019
- Theme: Bacterial Robustness: Evolution of Bacterial Resistance to Death
- Co-Directors: Prof. Graham Walker and Prof. Miroslav Radman
- Photo Gallery
All but one of the FEMS journals are fully open access (OA), with one journal, FEMS Microbiology Letters, offering free-to-publish and OA options. Open access is key to supporting the FEMS mission of disseminating high quality research as widely as possible: when high quality, peer reviewed sound science is open access, anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection, can read it.
