Atrandi at FEMS MICRO 2025: Revealing Microbial Diversity at the Single-Cell Level

From July 14 to 18, the microbiology community will gather in Milan for FEMS MICRO 2025 – one of Europe’s flagship conferences dedicated to cutting-edge microbial science. This year’s program spans everything from environmental and medical microbiology to synthetic biology, virology, and microbiome dynamics. It’s an inspiring meeting ground for researchers at every stage of their careers, and we at Atrandi are proud to be part of it.

We’re especially excited to invite you to our featured scientific session:
“From Cell to Community: Revealing Hidden Microbial Diversity”
Session Chair our CSO Rapolas Žilionis, PhD (Atrandi Biosciences)

This 1-hour session brings together five researchers advancing the frontiers of single-cell microbial analysis. The focus? How high-throughput single-cell genomics is uncovering previously invisible layers of complexity – from environmental microbiomes and viral dark matter to host–plasmid associations and phenotypic heterogeneity in pathogens.

Here’s the lineup:
Rapolas Žilionis (Atrandi Biosciences)
From Cell to Community: Unlocking Microbial Diversity with Single-Cell Genomics
Jyoti Verma (Umeå University)
A high-throughput single-cell metagenomic sequencing method to resolve microbiomes at the single-cell level
Alaina R. Weinheimer (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences)
Abundant non-canonical DNA viruses in seawater revealed by high-throughput single particle sequencing
Mária Džunková (University of Valencia)
High-throughput single-cell genomics for association of bacteria with their mobile genetic elements
Kemal Avican (Umeå University)
Dissecting bacterial virulence heterogeneity at single-cell level
Each talk is a glimpse into what becomes possible when we trade population averages for single-cell precision.

Why this matters?
Microbial communities are extraordinarily rich and complex. Traditional methods like bulk metagenomics and 16S rRNA sequencing offer valuable snapshots, but they fall short when it comes to understanding how microbes function at the level of individual cells. They blur strain-level variation, mask mobile genetic element (MGE) dynamics, and erase the link between genotype and phenotype. Single-cell genomics changes that. By isolating and sequencing individual cells, thousands at a time, we can trace host–virus interactions, explore rare biosynthetic capabilities, and follow gene flow with unprecedented precision. At Atrandi, we’ve developed a platform that makes these workflows not only possible, but scalable, with the help of Semi-Permeable Capsule (SPC) technology.
This session is about what happens when these tools get into the hands of great scientists.

Join us in Milan
Whether you’re working in environmental microbiology, virology, microbial ecology, or pathogenesis, we believe this session will resonate. It’s a rare opportunity to see how researchers are applying high-throughput single-cell methods in diverse contexts, and pushing past the limitations of bulk workflows.
We're especially proud to host this session because it reflects what we believe in at Atrandi: enabling scientists to uncover complexity and address the world’s most intricate biological questions.

ATRANDI Industry Session – From Cell to Community: Revealing Hidden Microbial Diversity
15 July | 16:00–17:00 CEST | Room Amber 1&2
FEMS MICRO 2025, Milan

Let’s meet, learn, and talk science. We’ll also be at the Atrandi Booth 23, so feel free to stop by anytime to explore our latest technologies, including the Single-Cell Microbial WGS Kit, powered by SPC technology, for streamlined SAG workflows, from isolated sample to sequencing-ready library.

Looking forward to seeing you in Milan. And if you can't make it, stay tuned for the post-session recap.