Join us for the FEMS Microbes Webinar on “Microbial Dark Matter,” where we delve into uncharted territories of microbial research with significant implications for public health, industry, and environmental science. This session features cutting-edge studies exploring novel microbial sources for antimicrobial compounds, innovative protein profiling in pathogenic bacteria, and groundbreaking non-invasive techniques for characterizing anaerobic gut fungi.

Discover how neotropical social wasps could be a new frontier for antibiotic discovery, understand the complexities of protein functions in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium, and learn about the potential of near-infrared spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging in microbiology research. Ideal for microbiologists, students, and science enthusiasts, this webinar is set to illuminate the depths of microbial potential and innovation. Join our Editors and authors as they share their findings and experiences in pushing the boundaries of microbiology.

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Date: Wednesday 7 May 2025
Time: 7:00 AM PST / 10:00 AM EST / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST / 23:00 JST

Speakers:

Chair: Julia Willett, Medical School, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of innesota (USA)

Chair: Kimberly Kline, Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Microbes, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

Speaker 1: Laura Chavarría-Pizarro, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)

Author of: Novel strains of Actinobacteria associated with neotropical social wasps (Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini) with antimicrobial potential for natural product discovery

Speaker 2: Kattia Núñez-Montero, Universidad Autónoma de Chile (Chile),

Author of: Novel strains of Actinobacteria associated with neotropical social wasps (Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini) with antimicrobial potential for natural product discovery

Speaker 3: Jeanette Grunnvåg, The Arctic University of Norway (Norway)

Author of: Activity-based protein profiling of serine hydrolases and penicillin-binding proteins in Enterococcus faecium

Speaker 4: Markus Neurauter, Universität Innsbruck (Austria)

Author of: Exploring near-infrared spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging as novel characterization methods for anaerobic gut fungi

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This event is part of a series of webinars by FEMS with OUP funded by the FEMS Journals. The FEMS journals are run by microbiologists, and for microbiologists. Every article published by us has been rigorously reviewed for soundness of science by our community of academic peer reviewers – and the not-for-profit journals support the microbiology community.