The biofilms conference series was formed in 2004, based on the idea of Rainer Abraham, Thomas Neu and Hans-Curt Flemming. The first conference took place in Osnabrück, Germany in a meeting during 2004, organised by Wolfgang Streit's lab and Dirk Wenderoth. The conference was received very positively and thus repeated every 2 years. At the biofilms 3 conference in Munich, Thomas Neu indicated in his closing remarks that the biofilms series should become European. Since then, the biofilms conference series has established itself in Europe for non-medical biofilm research and is attracting more and more participants.
Previous biofilms conferences:
2004 – 1st European conference on biofilms - prevention of microbial adhesion
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück, Germany
2006 – biofilms 2 Attachment and Detachment in Pure and Mixed Cultures
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
2008 – biofilms 3 international conference
Technical University, Munich, Germany
2010 – biofilms 4 international conference
Winchester, UK
2012 – biofilms 5 international conference
Paris, France
2014 – biofilms 6 international conference
Vienna, Austria
2016 – biofilms 7 international conference
Porto, Portugal
2018 – biofilms 8 international conference
Aarhus, Denmark
