Attendance at the 12th International Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacteria

Abstract

The 12th International Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacteria was held in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands from 27 - 31 August 2017. The conference attracted around 660 participants. The AGWA Travel Grant supported Jiao Jiang to attend this conference to present her current wine lactic acid bacteria (LAB) research through a poster presentation and network with other international researchers working in the food and beverage fields.

Summary

Jiao Jiang is a PhD candidate in the Wine Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology group at The University of Adelaide, supervised by Professor Vladimir Jiranek. During the conference, Jiao Jiang presented a poster on her current research titled ‘Directed evolution of Oenococcus oeni for enhanced malolactic fermentation’. The abstract for the poster is included in the Appendix.

The talks and posters during the conference provided overviews of the current development in five scientific fields; microbial communities, genetics and metabolism, fermentation and industrial application, host-microbe interaction, and bacteriophage and antimicrobials.