The 46^th World Congress on Microbiology hosted by Conference Series LLC was successfully held during September 18-19, 2017 at Dublin, Ireland and was marked with the presence of the committee members, senior scientists, young and brilliant researchers, business delegates and talented students from various countries, who made this conference successful and productive.

This conference highlighted the theme “Perceiving the challenges of the inter-disciplinary world of microbes through Research, Response & Regulation” with the following scientific tracks:

·         Emerging Techniques in Bacteriology

·         Advances of Techniques in Virology

·         Innovations in Veterinary Microbiology

·         Enumeration of Environmental Microbiology

·         Improvements in Agricultural Microbiology

·         Flora in Soil & Water Microbiology

·         Futuristic Innovations in Industrial & Food Microbiology

·         Pure Microbiology & Microbes World

·         Melioration in Mycology & Phycology

·         Nematology & Proto-Zoology

·         Advances in Medical Parasitology

·         Microbial Identification & Physiology

·         Breakthrough Approaches in Medical & Molecular Microbiology

·         Microbial Immunology & Infection Control

·         Current Trends in Microbiology

·         Vaccines & Anti-Microbials

We are thankful to our Honourable guests: Prof Martin Ryan from University of St. Andrews, Scotland and Prof Petra Dersch, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany for their generous support.

The conference proceedings were carried out through various Scientific Sessions and plenary lectures, of which the following were highlighted as Keynote presentations:

• Title: Protein biogenesis in the Picornaviridae: Virus-encoded proteinases, ribosome‘skipping’, alternative initiation and programmed ribosomal frame-shifting

Martin Ryan, University of St Andrews, UK

·         Title: The role of the human polyomavirus BK in the development of prostate cancer

Maurizio Provenzano, University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland

·         Title: Biology of Myxobacteria – an underestimated group of antibiotic producing bacteria

Joachim Wink, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany

• Title: The threat mitigation of emerging infectious diseases globally

Stef Stienstra, Royal Dutch Navy, Netherlands

• Title: Global reprogramming of the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis transcriptional landscape in response to host signals

Petra Dersch, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany

• Title: Paramyxovirus receptor interactions: Importance in understanding cross species infection, vaccine design and disease treatment

Sarah Louise Cosby, Queen’s University Belfast & Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute, UK

• Title: Improved antibiotic treatments and vaccines against bacterial diseases: Why do we need to understand how the pathogen interacts with the host?

Pietro Mastroeni, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Title: Investigating the role of histone acetylation in the regulation of flocculation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Alastair Fleming, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Various sessions were chaired and co-chaired by: 

·         Joachim Wink, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany

·         Stef Stienstra, Scientific Advisor Royal Dutch Navy, Netherlands

·         Sarah Louise Cosby, Queen’s University Belfast & Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute, UK

·         Pietro Mastroeni, University of Cambridge United Kingdom

Young Research Forum was organized and young researchers were evaluated on various parameters by Dr Alastair Fleming. Similarly Poster presentations were evaluated by Dr. Maurizio Provenzano.

Conference Series LLC has taken the privilege of felicitating Microbiology 2017 Organizing Committee, and Keynote Speakers who supported the event.

The esteemed guests, Keynote speakers, well-known researchers and delegates shared their innovative research and vast experience through their fabulous presentations at the podium of grand Microbiology 2016 Conference. We are glad to inform that all accepted abstracts for the conference have been published in Conference Series LLC “Journal of Bacteriology & Parasitology” as a special issue.

We are also obliged to various delegate experts, company representatives and other eminent personalities who supported the conference. We sincerely thank the Organizing Committee Members for their gracious presence, support and assistance. With the unique feedback from the conference, Conference Series LLC would like to announce the commencement of the “47^th World Congress on Microbiology” to be held during September 10-11, 2018 at London, UK.