The course will be optimized to student's needs, your input is, therefore, important. We ask you to select 10 themes out of the ones listed under "Design your own Course" which are of interest to you and to submit your selection on the prepared inscription form. We will then make the final program from the most frequently chosen priorities.

We presently offer 36 themes grouped into 8 parts

Part I	Evolution to present day microbial diversity
Part II	Microbial ecosystems & ecosystem determinants
Part III	Energetics determines microbial lifestyles
Part IV	Microbial involvement in geochemical cycling
Part V	Primary microbial production
Part VI	Microbial interactions
Part VII	Applied microbial ecology
Part VIII	Deriving concepts from microbial ecology and diversity

The topics emphasize aquatic and terrestrial environments at the location where the course takes place, but do not exclude other interesting microbial ecosystems available at various sites world-wide. Some topics will illustrate the importance of microbes as living environmental agents and as partners in microbe-animal or microbe-plant interactions, others will emphazise the roles microbes play in global geochemical cycles and how they contribute for geobiology and again others are aimed at illustrating basic ecological and evolutionary principles.