We are pleased to welcome you to the fifth conference on the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms to be held in Helsinki, Finland in June 2025. The previous meetings attracted participants from all over the world. The ESM conference is an interdisciplinary platform addressing questions related to individual microbes (archaea, bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, protozoa and viruses), microbial communities and their ecological networks. Modern genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic methods are linked with approaches based on soil chemical, biochemical and functional analyses, exploration of soil fauna and plant ecology. We cordially invite experts from all these disciplines to join us in Helsinki to promote state-of-the-art research in the field of soil ecology and enjoy the northern midsummer madness!

Categories

1. Networks across scales
2. Ecology and diversity of microhabitats in soils
3. Microbial processes
4. Soil carbon and nutrient cycles
5. Interactions among micro- and macroorganisms
6. Viruses in soil
7. Microbes in the changing environment
8. Mechanistic modelling of soil microorganisms
9. Agricultural soil microbiomes
10. Forests and peatlands as microbial habitat