To mark my retirement, I am pleased to invite you to a symposium on Friday, 4 July 2025, where fellow scientists will share brief presentations on their research and perspectives. The symposium will be followed by a reception at the same venue, and you are warmly welcome to join for drinks afterwards at Café De Polder, should you wish.

Program

12:00-13:00 Welcome with coffee/tea (CWI Congress Center)

13:00-13:10 Opening by Jasper de Goeij

13:10-13:30 Robert Kleerebezem (TU Delft) – “Microbial community engineering for resource recovery“

13:30-13:50 Xi Bai (UvA) – “Exploring the role of microbiology in enhancing the performance and sustainability of slow sand filtration for drinking water production”

13:50-14:10 Aschwin Engelen (CCMAR, Portugal) – “Marine macrophytes: Microbiomes from rocky shores to muddy lagoons”

14:10-14:30 Petra Visser (UvA) – “Benthic cyanobacterial mats on coral reefs”

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:20 Hendrik Schaefer (University of Warwick, UK) – “Microbial cycling of organosulfur compounds: From model organisms to the environment”

15:20-15:40 Linda Amaral-Zettler (NIOZ/UvA) – “Postcards from the Plastisphere”

15:40-16:10 Gerard Muyzer (UvA) – “From giant dinosaurs to tiny microbes: 40 years of passionate research and discovery”

16:10-16:15 Closing by Jasper de Goeij

16:00-17:30 Reception (CWI Congress Center)

17:30-19:00 Drinks (Café de Polder)

The event will take place in De Turingzaal, at the CWI Congress Center, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam. For directions and visitor information, please click the link. Please note that parking at CWI is limited. It is available by following P1E signage within the Science Park.

If you plan to attend the symposium and reception and have not yet registered, kindly do so by sending an email to:

📧 secretariaat-ibed-science@uva.nl

When registering, please also indicate whether you plan to join for drinks at Café De Polder.