Due to the ongoing COVID-19 uncertainties in Africa, ISME and the South Africa Local Organizing Committee made the difficult decision to postpone our ISME18 August 2022 meeting in South Africa to a later date.
As many of you know, the point of holding our symposium in different countries around the world is to give the local and regional scientists a chance to actively participate in our event and present their science. Unfortunately it is unlikely that this can happen in Africa next year so we are therefore postponing the symposium in Cape Town until 2024 or even 2026.
However, even though we cannot go to South Africa, we would like to try to organize a conference in 2022 and give you a platform to meet face to face again. So we are pleased to annouce that the ISME Executive and International Board voted for an alternative location and the winner is Lausanne, Switzerland!
ISME18 will now take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 14-19 August 2022.
We hope to see many of you there!