Three regional ISMET 2026 Conferences: Call for Proposals Open

The ISMET Conference Committee is pleased to announce a call for proposals toorganize the next regional ISMET meetings in 2026. These are the premier regionalmeetings in North-America (NA-ISMET), Europe (EU-ISMET), and the Asian-Pacific area(AP-ISMET) on microbial electrochemistry and technology. We especially encourage theEU and AP community to prepare a proposal, since those meetings happened in…

ISMET board elections

Dear ISMET members, As you know our society is now truly global with five chapters. This means that from 2027/ 2028 on all five chapters will elect one out of two new representatives for the chapter of the ISMET Board of Directors every 2nd year. Until then the composition of the Board of Directors is…

NA-ISMET 2024

The 2024 North American Meeting of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (NA-ISMET) will be hosted at Rice University during April 3-5, 2024. We look forward to seeing you in April 2024! IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: October 16, 2023Registration Deadline: January 15, 2024 LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Public Engagement Awards

ISMET was impressed by the engagement of community members on Public Engagement Day and selected three members to be awarded for their inspiring participation: We congratulate: Paniz Izadi (Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany) for the 3rd Place (100 Euro) Paolo Dessi (Galway, Ireland) for the 2nd Place (200 Euro) Naoko Yashida (Nagoya Institute…

WISMET seminar 5/11

The next WISMET Seminarwill be on the 9th November at 17h (CEST). Speaker:Dr. Mehri Shabani Affiliation: ESAIP La Salle, CERADE, Saint-Barthélemy d’Anjou, France and Angers University, Faculty of Science, Group Analysis & Processes, Angers, France Title: The potential of the Fungal microbial fuel cells to bioremediate pollutants Registration link: https://forms.gle/uCsHehoxJBGsH1da9

Need of amendment of our (legal) foundation to let ISMET going global!

Dear ISMET members, I am writing to you in troubled times, but spring is coming. I hope that you and your families and loved ones as well as scientific families and partners are safe and healthy.Although the last years and months may have brought us physically more apart, I am more confident than ever that…

Public Engagement Day

Join the 1st International ISMET Public Engagement Day. How? Submit your entry on the 20th June 2022 to participate to the contest! The top three entries will receive a prize that will be given during the global ISMET 8 conference held in 19-23rd September 2022 in Chania, Greece.

WISMET seminar 10/12

Day: 10th December (8 am Pacific Standard Time, 5 pm Central Europe Time) Speaker: Sara Tejedor Sanz Affiliation: Senior Scientific Engineer Associate at the Advanced Biofuels Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Title: Extracellular electron transfer in lactic acid bacteria: squeezing fermentation using electrodes as redox sink Abstract: The strategy that microorganisms use to extract energy dictates their environmental…