"Members of MIKROBIOKOSMOS participated in the 17th ISME Conference which was held in Leipzig at 12-17th of August 2018. The members of the Society presented posters and gave oral presentations on the relevant research carried out in Greece. The conference attracted about 2200 participants and presented state-of-the-art research in Environmental Microbiology, Aquatic and Marine Microbiology, Synthetic Biotechnology (Synthetic microbial ecology), plant-microbe and animal-microbe interactions and other trophic interactions in the microbial world. For more information on ISME activities you could contact the ambassador of ISME in Greece Prof. K. Kormas (kkormas@uth.gr), founding member of MIKROBIOKOSMOS".