We are delighted to invite you to participate in the second Annual Meeting of SUSTAIN COST Action 22144 on June 23-24, 2025 at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, providing an opportunity for COST Action participants to meet and network. The meeting will be held in parallel with the 5th Edition of International Conference OBSIDIAN – “Plant Productivity and Food Safety: Microbiology, Soil Science, Food Quality and Agricultural Genetics”.

The main objective of this joint event is to initiate and promote interdisciplinary scientific cooperation, bring together attendees to exchange knowledge and experiences. For the OBSIDIAN conference, it has become a tradition of the conference to share the latest scientific achievements in fields such as microbiology, soil science, food quality and agricultural genetics by the most prominent scientists and specialists from around the world. During the conference, we will discuss the challenges and opportunities in increasing plant productivity while ensuring food safety under dynamic environmental and technological changes. Building on the strategic partnership with the COST Action SUSTAIN, the leading topic at this year’s OBSIDIAN conference will be salinity and its impact on the environment, humans, plants and animals.

Application deadline: April 1st, 2025 -> Extended Application deadline: April 7th, 2025

To submit your abstract for the OBSIDIAN conference, please visit: https://soil-micro.umk.pl/pages/Konferencja_2025/

Important dates for the joint event:

  • 1st April 2025 – Application deadline for the SUSTAIN Annual Meeting

  • 1st May 2025 – WG Leaders’ decision and notification of acceptance for the SUSTAIN Annual Meeting

  • 30th May 2025 – Deadline for Obsidian registration with abstracts and sending conference fees

  • 2nd June 2025 – Decision of the Obsidian Scientific Commitee about form of the presentation (poster or oral presentation)

  • 6th June 2025 – Deadline for Obsidian registration of participants without presentations and posters

  • 9th June 2025 – Deadline for Obsidian poster submission (as PDF in A4 format, vertical layout)
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