A conference on environmental, industrial and applied microbiology or BioMicroWorld 2009 will be held from  December 2-4, 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. General sessions will be dedicated to microbiological applications in various areas in agriculture, medicine and food sciences, while special sessions will address more specific  topics, including antimicrobial surfaces, bacteria-derived antimicrobial toxins, biofilms, bioremediation, biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins, microarrays in microbiology, microbial biosensors (transducers, recognition), microfactories - microbial production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, single-cell analysis of microbes, and synthesis of nanomaterials by microorganisms (nanowires, nanoparticles). The deadline of registration is on 11 November, 2009.

For further information, visit http://www.formatex.org/biomicroworld2009/
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