The Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) will take place March 1–4, 2015, in Marburg, Germany. The Hans-Günter Schlegel Lecture will be presented by Bärbel Friedrich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

The topics for the main symposia of the VAAM Annual Conference will be microbial evolution, synthetic microbiology, CRISPR systems and viruses, bacterial cell biology, and symbiosis.

A panel of international speakers will discuss the latest developments in the aforementioned fields. In addition, a broad range of topics in general microbiology will be covered in 24 symposia.

Current information regarding the conference, scientific topics, and organization can be found on the conference website.