The 1st International Online Conference on Fermentation

Name: The 1st International Online Conference on Fermentation
Start: 2025-11-11T23:00:00
End: 2025-11-12T23:00:00

Event's Timezone: Central European Time

Non-saccharomyces Yeast, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Lactic Acid Bacteria, Probiotics, Gut Health, Health Benefits, Fermented Drinks, Yoghurt

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The IOCTO2025 is now OPEN for registration and abstract submission!

Register for the conference HERE.
Submit your abstracts HERE.

For any inquiries, please contact us at: iocfe2025@mdpi.com

Welcome from the Chair

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the 1st International Online Conference on Fermentation (IOCFE2025). The conference is organized by the MDPI journal Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637, Impact Factor 3.3) and will be held online from 12 to 13 November 2025.

The conference will provide an opportunity for scientists in the field to present their latest research and to participate in discussions about implantable biomaterials development more widely. The main themes of the conference are:

Fermentation and micro-organism/biotechnology
Fermentation and sensory profiles/impact
Fermentation foods, drinks, and food safety
Fermentation and health (nutraceutical impact)

The conference will provide new opportunities for researchers to exchange ideas and to expand scientific horizons of the field. The conference will be organised to make it easier for researchers from disparate backgrounds to come together and to share their specialist perspectives in new ways, augmenting the trans-disciplinarity of the field. Ultimately, it is the free sharing of ideas that will secure a global-scale effort for the field, thereby underpinning its growing role as a key modality for medical interventions.

With an open forum concept, the conference will be a platform for both technically conventional and unconventional approaches. At the organizational level, its virtual nature will promote interactions free of geographic and travel constraints and so place delegates in the same interactive ‘space’ with the possible creation of new research community linkages and, with this, new scientific directions for the future.

The conference will be held through the Zoom platform, participants have the opportunity to engage in interactive sessions, freely share comments and engage in discussions with fellow researchers. Arguably, a virtual conference is also less physically demanding, allowing full focus on the material presented throughout the conference period without the risk of low audience engagement, as can happen sometimes at the start and end of in-person conferences when delegates may be constrained by travel arrangements.

All accepted abstracts will be available online in open access form on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.

Kind regards,

Conference Chair
Prof. Dr. Antonio Morata
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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Event Chair

Prof. Dr. Antonio Morata

Department of Food Science and Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – UPM, Spain

Sessions

1. Fermentation and micro-organism/biotechnology
2. Fermentation and sensory profiles/impact
3. Fermentation foods, drinks, and food safety
4. Fermentation and health (nutraceutical impact)

Registration

The registration for IOCFE 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.

If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.

Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 7 November 2025.

Instructions for Authors

Procedure for Submission

The 1st International Online Conference on Fermentation will accept abstracts only.
The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.

Important Deadlines

1. Deadline for abstract submission: 11 July 2025.
2. Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 8 September 2025.
You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral presentation in a separate email.

Certificates of Participation will only be available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My certificates” after the conference.

Abstract submission

Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.

1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.

Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.

Oral Presentation and Slides Submission

The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.

Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software.

Poster Gallery

Poster:

a. Your submission should include the title, authors, contact details, and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
b. File format: PDF (.pdf).
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
d. Font size: ≥20.
e. Maximum size: 250 M

Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)

You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded here.

Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to upload it to the conference website. Once your submission is accepted, you can upload your poster in the 'My submission' section by selecting the correct conference and submission, then clicking the upload button. If you encounter any difficulties during the upload process, please contact iocfe2025@mdpi.com for assistance. All accepted posters will be permanently displayed online in the Poster Gallery.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.

Copyright

MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.

Publication Opportunity

1. Fermentation Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to a Special Issue published in Fermentation (ISSN: 2311-5637, Impact Factor 3.3), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.

Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.

2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IOCFE 2025 in Biology and Life Sciences Forum Proceedings (ISSN: 2673-9976); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (3-6 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCFE 2025 conference paper in their cover letter.
Proceedings submission deadline: 2 January 2026
Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:

1. Title

2. Full author names

3. Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses

4. Abstract

5. Keywords

6. Introduction

7. Methods

8. Results and Discussion

9. Conclusions

10. Acknowledgements

11. References.

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Event Awards

To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide eight awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.

The Awards

Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards

Number of Awards Available: 8

The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.

There will be eight winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.