Every year, in the end of November, the workshop on Rapid methods and automation in food microbiology (MRAMA) is held in the Veterinary Science School at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB; Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès), and is directed by Dr. Marta Capellas Puig and Dr. Josep Yuste Puigvert, associate professors of Food science and technology, and organised by the Centre d’Innovació, Recerca i Transferència en Tecnologia dels Aliments (CIRTTA) and the Department of Animal and Food sciences of UAB.

The workshop MRAMA broadens and spreads the theoretical and practical knowledge about innovative methods for rapid detection, enumeration, isolation and characterization of foodborne and waterborne microorganisms and their metabolites. It is designed for directors and technicians of industries, consultancies and laboratories of food, and other sectors (microbiological, biotechnological, clinical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical, environmental, etc.); inspectors and other administration staff; university teachers and technical staff, graduate and postgraduate students; people from other research centres; etc.