09:45 – 10:00         Welcome Address - Hauke Smidt - WU Microbiology & UNLOCK

10:00 – 10:30         Keynote Noora Ottman - DTU National Food Institute 

10:30 – 10:45         Coffee Break 

10:45 – 12:00         WMC group pitches

• NIOO-KNAW: Paul Bodelier & Eric Lindemann
• WR: Annelein Meisner & Laura Valk
• WU-Genetics: Sijmen Schoustra
• WU-Microbiology: Clara Belzer
• WU-Host-Microbe Interactomics: Gwen Falony & Zizhuang Fang
• WU-Phytopathology: Desalegn Etalo
• WU-Systems and Synthetic Biology: Pieter Candry & Bhavya Sree Vadlamudi

12:00 – 13:00         Lunch

13:00 – 13:30         Keynote Paul Ross - APC Microbiome Ireland

13:45 – 15:00         Parallel activities 

• How can we move from correlation to causation within microbial ecology & evolution? 
• How can WMC facilitate microbiome sampling methods, standardization and bioinformatic analyses? 
• How can we study microbiomes beyond bacteria within WMC? 
• How to accelerate microbiome research in WMC through AI? 

15:00 – 15:30         Coffee Break 

15:30 – 16:30         Closing: Visualisation of the Wageningen Microbiome Landscap, followed by drinks

Organising committee