24th Biennial Congress of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology (IOM)

July 16th – 20th, 2023 | Osaka, Japan The 24th Congress of the IOM will take place July 16th – 20th, 2023 at Osaka, Japan. This congress will include the latest research advances in clinical and veterinary researches, vaccine development, synthetic biology, pathogenesis, structural biology, Phytoplasma, Spiroplasma, Ureaplasma, Acholeplasma, Mesoplasma, and more. Visit the web […]

2nd Congress of the International Society for Citrus Huanglongbing and Phloem-Colonizing Bacterial Pathosystems

25th – 28th October 2022, Florida, USA Confronting the Phloem-Colonizing Bacterial Pathosystems Together The conference will focus on diagnostics, epidemiology, omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, or metabolomics), pathogen and plant interactions, pathogen and insect interactions, pathogen biology, insect and plant interactions, insect biology, plant defense, biotechnology and disease control of the pathosystems caused by the phloem-colonizing […]

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Early Career Mycoplasma and Chlamydia Researcher Conference 2022

The ESCMID Study Group for Mycoplasma and Chlamydia Infections (ESGMAC) are please to announce the first Early Career Mycoplasma and Chlamydia Researcher Conference 2022 which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 18th October 2022. This conference has been designed to give early career researchers an opportunity to present their research in a low-pressure and […]

Exploring the Mycoplasma agalactiae pan-epigenome

Find other interesting talks in the Scientific program of the XXIII Biennial Congress of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology

Do human mycoplasmas rely on iron?

A review article published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal describes the putative iron-enzymes, transporters, and metalloregulators of four relevant human mycoplasmas and questions the use of iron by these minimal organisms. Alex Perálvarez-Marín, et al., Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021. Metal utilization in genome-reduced bacteria: do human mycoplasmas rely on iron?? Abstract […]