Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacteria—reading while waiting for a meeting

Bas Teusink,Oscar P Kuipers,Sylvain Moineau

doi:10.1093/femsre/fuaa049

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Abstract

This special thematic issue of FEMS Microbiology Reviews is truly special, because it contains contributions to a meeting that is yet to happen! As many others, the thirteenth Interna- tional Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB13) was a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic and has been postponed to next year. The conference is held every 3 years in The Netherlands, and is attended by researchers from academia and industry from all over the world, reflecting the importance of these microorgan- isms in food, health and basic science. As a tradition, the invited speakers are asked to contribute not only by a talk, but also by a thorough review on the topic of their presentation. These papers were already under review by the time it became clear that the coronavirus would not be contained and that we had to post- pone the meeting. However, we decided to move on and publish the reviews now, when still timely, and we are eagerly awaiting updated presentations next summer.

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This special thematic issue of FEMS Microbiology Reviews is truly special, because it contains contributions to a meeting that is yet to happen!
They need to defend against viruses, which are a significant risk for industrial food fermentations. They are studied for their metabolism and physiology, in isolation or increasingly in the context of microbial consortia such as the human microbiome or complex fermented foods. These broad topics are discussed at the LAB Symposium series, and this issue reflects the current state of the art of the exciting and diverse field of LAB research
It is a threat to industrial production processes, but fundamental studies on the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems in Streptococcus thermophilus led to the discovery of the molecular mechanisms of this adaptive immune system

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This special thematic issue of FEMS Microbiology Reviews is truly special, because it contains contributions to a meeting that is yet to happen! The thirteenth International Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB13) was a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic and has been postponed to year. They are studied for their metabolism and physiology, in isolation or increasingly in the context of microbial consortia such as the human microbiome or complex fermented foods.

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