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The success of the 1st International Symposium on Sponge Microbiology reflects the growing interest of the scientific community in this new and emerging field. Research themes of the symposium included symbiont diversity, physiology and function, secondary metabolites, metagenomics, single-cell genomics and other -omics approaches, sponge–symbiont interactions, sponge diseases, environmental stress, and many more. This article summarizes the major developments in the field and identifies future foci for research.

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Acknowledgments

Firstly, we would like to thank all of the participants at the 1st International Symposium on Sponge Microbiology. They made the meeting a great success. We also thank Wilma Kressmann, Gerhard Radermacher, and Susanne Schmitt (all University of Würzburg) for their help before and during the symposium, Dave Abdo (daveabdo.com) for the use of his sponge garden image in the symposium poster, and the session chairpersons (Kristina Bayer, Micha Ilan, Stephen Jackson, Susanna Lopez-Legentil, Regina Radax, Peter Schupp) for their role in making the symposium run smoothly and to time. MWT and UH acknowledge generous financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB567 TP C3, and MWT acknowledges University of Auckland grants 3609286 and 3622989. RTH acknowledges support from the US NSF Microbial Interactions and Processes Program (MCB-0703467) and BIO/IOS Program (IOS-0919728).

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  1. Centre for Microbial Innovation, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand

    Michael W. Taylor

  2. Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Columbus Center, Suite 236, 701 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA

    Russell T. Hill

  3. Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 3, 97082, Würzburg, Germany

    Ute Hentschel

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Taylor, M.W., Hill, R.T. & Hentschel, U. Meeting Report: 1st International Symposium on Sponge Microbiology. Mar Biotechnol 13, 1057–1061 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-011-9397-0

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