Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the Hellenic Scientific Society MIKROBIOKOSMOS "All Microbes for a Sustainable Future"

Dear Colleagues，

Microorganisms have endured and thrived since the beginning of life on our planet, and this makes them the most resourceful biological “story-tellers” of all living beings. They play key roles in biogeochemical cycling at different environmental compartments, with reciprocal and cascading effects in agriculture, animal, human and plant health.

They are important for sustainable agriculture, as microbial pesticides, biofertilisers or bioremediating agents, and mediate in environmental clean-up and biodepuration. They support life in lakes and oceans affecting all aquatic organism yields, and have an overall impact on the climate; they indeed regulate climate change. They contribute to food production, preservation and safety, and thus to animal and human health and nutrition. They constitute an invaluable source of cellular and molecular materials for exploitation in biotechnology and bioenergy production. Lastly, they constitute an important and integral part of all other living organisms: the microbiome.

Thus, the role of the microbial world—‘mikrobiokosmos’ in Greek—is considered more than ever crucial in the ‘One Health’ and ‘One Planet’ schools of thought, i.e., the emerging concepts advocating the intertwining of healthy global ecosystems with healthy living beings.

The theme of the conference is “All microbes for a sustainable future” to highlight the significant role of microorganisms in the following fields/sessions: Agriculture/Fisheries, One Health, Food/Nutrition, Environment, Bioengineering, Biotechnology, Systems Biology, Emerging approaches in Microbiology, thus ensuring the sustainability of our planet.

This Special Issue will include peer-reviewed articles that will be presented at the 10^th Conference of the Hellenic Scientific Society Mikrobiokosmos “All microbes for a sustainable future” to be held on September 17–19, 2023, in Larissa, Greece. However, we also welcome contributions relevant to the focus of the conference that may not be presented in the conference.

Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference and this Special Issue by submitting their research papers.

Dr. Agapi I. Doulgeraki
Dr. Savvas Genitsaris
Dr. Alexandra Meziti
Guest Editors

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