Home of the International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society
The Society hosts and promotes a wide variety of meetings, conferences and triennial symposia, the most recent of which, IBBS19 was recently in Berlin in 2024.
The 19th symposium addressed a broad range of research on biodeterioration and biodegradation of various man-made and natural materials and products that are of economic and cultural importance. IBBS 19 was organised by Dechema e.V. and took place at Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin
In May 2024 IBBS supported a workshop organised by The Institute for Biological Systems of the Italian National Research Council, Department of Environmental Biology and Biology and Biotechnology at Sapienza University of Rome. With the title “Omics & Heritage: Metagenomes and Microbiomes for the Study of Cultural Heritage Conservation and Archaeology” the workshop brought together young students and researchers working in these fields and helped foster the strengthening of a network that also aims to be international. The proceedings of the workshop can be freely downloaded here.
The 10th Latin American Biodeterioration Symposium – LABS 10 – was held online from November 19th – 22nd 2023, sponsored by the International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and the National Technology Institute. The papers are published in a mixture of Portuguese and English and the full proceedings are freely available here.
IBBS has appointed 25 Country Representatives around the world to act as its Ambassadors in their geographic areas – from Argentina to the USA.
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