VAAM Annual Meeting 2023
| by Slavica Janevska

Slavica, together with Florian Altegoer (Düsseldorf), took over the organization and moderation of this year's minisymposium of the VAAM (Association for General and Applied Microbiology) special group 'Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi'. The topic of the session was 'Fungi as friends and foes – metabolic potential and diversity of pathogenic lifestyles'. The special group speakers Kai Heimel (Göttingen) and Philipp Benz (Munich) are inviting to the next special group symposium 'Molecular Biology of Fungi', which will take place on 11-13 September 2024 at the University of Kiel (see photo).