Dear friends and colleagues

The Organizing Committee would like to invite you to participate in the 3rd Congress of Baltic Microbiologists (CBM2016). The scope of this Congress is microbiology, including its many different aspects like molecular, environmental, food, agricultural, and biotechnological topics, with several medicinal branches of microbiology. Immunology and virusology is also included in the scope of the Congress. The goal of the Congress is to provide a platform for sharing recent results and discoveries in microbiological and biotechnological research, as well as to introduce young researchers from different countries to this fascinating field by giving them an opportunity to learn from more experienced scientists and to allow them to present results of their own research. Microbiology is a quickly developing discipline and we ought to organize presentations of its ongoing progress. The Congress of Baltic Microbiologists had started with the first meeting being held in 2012 at Riga, Latvia. The next meeting was held in Tartu, Estonia (2014). This year we invite you to Vilnius, Lithuania!