17th Seeon Conference – Microbiota, Probiotics and Host in June 2025

Dear PhD students, young researchers, and fellow microbiome scientists!

Enhance your knowledge and expand your network of peers and experts in the field.

Our new steering committee – Till Strowig, Lisa Maier and Joel Selkrig – of the “Microbiota, Probiotics and Host”-group warmly invites you to participate at the 17th Seeon Conference taking place June 26th to June 28th, 2025, in the setting of the monastery of Seeon at the Chiem lake.

This year, instead of the Summer School, we will feature mentoring sessions with our invited speakers. These sessions will be offered to young early-career students (PhDs and PostDocs) and are limited in places. So, be quick to register and submit your abstract to increase your chances for a 1-on1-mentoring session.

We look forward to our keynote speakers:

• Jeremy Barr (Monash University, Australia): Temperate bacteriophage populations in the human gut: culturomics and experimental insights
• John Penders (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
• Marco Prinz (University of Freiburg, Germany): How the gut shapes the CNS immune system
• Reetta Satokari (University Helsinki, Finland): From fecal microbiota transplantation to bacteriotherapy
• Wolf-Dietrich Hardt (ETH Zürich, Switzerland): Gut, sweet home

And we are excited to hear from rising stars on their hot topics:

• David Riglar (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
• Lukas Mager (University Hospital Tübingen, Germany): Developing microbiome-based precision therapy in inflammatory bowel disease
• Natalia Torow (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany)
• Romana Gerner (Technical University Munich, Germany)

Looking forward to discussing host-microbiota-interactions and clinically-oriented microbiome research with you and our internationally renowned speakers

at our beautiful lakeside location with great food and a relaxing atmosphere!

More information can be found here in January.

Registration Window (board & lodging included):

15 January to 18 April 2025

Late registration (self-organized lodging):

19 April to 30 May 2025

Abstract submission timeline

06 April 2025 (23:59 CEST): Abstract submission deadline for oral and poster presentations

11 April 2025: Notification to Abstract Submitters

Late poster abstract submission timeline

30 May 2025: Abstract submission deadline for late poster presentations