Meeting report on the ASM Conference on Mechanisms of Interbacterial Cooperation and Competition

Bram Lories; Ilse Parijs; Kevin R Foster; Hans P Steenackers

doi:10.1128/JB.00403-17

Meeting report on the ASM Conference on Mechanisms of Interbacterial Cooperation and Competition

J Bacteriol. 2017 Aug 14;199(22):e00403-17. doi: 10.1128/JB.00403-17. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Bram Lories¹, Ilse Parijs¹, Kevin R Foster², Hans P Steenackers¹

Affiliations

¹ Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
² Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.

Abstract

The ASM Conference on Mechanisms of Interbacterial Cooperation and Competition was held in Washington DC, from 1 to 4 March 2017. The conference provided an international forum for sociomicrobiologists from different disciplines to present and discuss new findings. The meeting covered a wide range of topics, spanning molecular mechanisms, ecology, evolution, computation and manipulation of interbacterial interactions, and encompassed social communities in medicine, the natural environment, and industry. This report summarizes the presentations and emerging themes.