EPSO 6th Workshop on Plants and Microbiomes

The EPSO Working Group on Plants and Microbiomes announces that the sixth workshop will take place in Malaga on 3 November 2025 as a Satellite Workshop of the 6^th Plant Microbiome Symposium in Malaga/Antequera, Spain, 3-7 November 2025. The originally planned workshop in Utrecht (8-9 April 2025) is cancelled.

This sixth workshop has four main themes:

1. Microbiomes of plants / crops – new projects, initiatives and scientific highlights
2. Development of best practices and recommendations – Minimum metadata requirements and pre-analytic parameters
3. New microbiome technologies
4. Coordination of plant microbiome research

The meeting intends to increase collaborations between the working group members. Recommendations from the workshop will be provided to the scientific community, the European Commission and national agencies.

In due time we will provide you details on registration, workshop fee, hotel booking and how to offer a short presentation.

We look forward to meeting you in November!