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.
Planning is already underway for IBBS20, the 20th International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Symposium, being held at the Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary in late August 2027.
IBBS is pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 IBBS Webinar Series, organised by our Country Representatives (CRs). Each webinar will highlight a key topic within the broad IBBS scope, featuring experts from around the world.
🎯 What to Expect from the IBBS Webinar Series?
✔ 2–4 webinars per year
✔ Topics across biodeterioration, biodegradation and applied microbiology
✔ Global perspectives from IBBS Country Representatives
✔ Insights into marine systems, cultural heritage, corrosion, bioremediation, industrial microbiology, modelling and more.
Full details and how you can join our webinars here.
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 27 Country Representatives around the world to act as its Ambassadors in their geographic areas – from Argentina to the USA.
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