“Securing and exploring microbial biodiversity for a sustainable and healthy future”.
Monday 15th September
- 13:00-14:00 Registration (and poster mounting)
- 14:00-14:15 Opening Ceremony
Theme: Research and Development I
- 14:15-15:00 Keynote: Jörg Overmann (DSMZ, Germany): Significance and challenges of microbial resource centers in a changing world
- 15:00-16:00 Session 1: Advances and challenges in preservation of axenic cultures and microbiomes (synthetic and natural communities)
- 15:00-15:20 Matthew Ryan (CABI, UK): Preserving microbial diversity: from pure cultures to complex communities
- 15:20-16:00 Other speakers t.b.c.
- 16:00-17:00 Session 2: Microbial reference materials for new diagnostic tools for plant, animal and human pathogens
- 16:00-16:20 Dea Garcia-Hermoso (CFIP, France): Insights through biobanking of historical Trichosporon strains from clinical, environmental, and food sources
- 16:20-16:40 Wieland Meyer (WI-KNAW): tiltle t.b.c.
- 16:40-17:00 T.b.c.
- 17:00-17:40 Posters Session 1 & Coffee
- 17:40-19:00 Session 3: Microbes for food safety & security and to promote human health
- 17:40-19:00 Speakers t.b.c.
- 19:00-21:00 Welcome reception (Plaza, WI building)
Tuesday 16th September
Theme: Research and Development II
- 07:45-08:30 Registration
- 08:30-09:00 Keynote: Vasileios Kokkoris, (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands): Isolating, culturing and dissecting the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal cell
- 09:00-10:20 Session 4: Unlocking the treasure chest: Whole Genome Sequencing of collection holdings (running projects, strategies, prioritization of strains)
- 09:00-09:20 Olga Matantseva (CCAC (Algae), Germany): ”Great diversity, great pportunities and challenges: insights into decoding genomes from the central collection of algal culture
- 09:20-10:20 Other speakers t.b.c.
- 10:20-11:00 Posters Session 2 / Tour WI 1+2 and Coffee
- 11:00-12:00 Session 5: Culture collections for sustainable development
- 11:00-11:20 Irina Tsitko (VTT CC, Finland): Utilization of VTTCC resources in biotechnology
- 11:20-12:00 T.b.c.
Theme: Collection management & Legal and regulatory challenges
- 12:00-13:00 Session 6: Ethical and legal challenges of collection management (Nagoya protocol & DSI, microbiomes, Budapest treaty, ISO standards etc.)
- 12:00-12:30 Amber Scholz (DSMZ, Germany): title t.b.c.
- 12:30-13:00 T.b.c.
- 13:00-14:00 Lunch / Tour WI 3+4 (13:00-13:30)
Theme: Community, Networks & Databases
- 14:00-15:00 Session 7: Projects and networks (new and updates on existing ones)
- 14:00-14:20 Michael O’Donohue (IBISBA, BioIndustry 4.0): title t.b.c.
- 14:20-15:00 Other speakers t.b.c.
- 15:00:16:00 Session 8: Linking ex-situ microbial resources to data: challenges and solutions
- 15:00-16:00 Speakers t.b.c.
- 16:00:21:30 Social Event & Dinner (included in Registration Fee)
Wednesday 17th September
Theme: Taxonomy and Phylogeny
- 08:30-09:00 Keynote speaker: Irina Druzhinina (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, U.K.): Fungal species concepts in the genomic era: lessons from genera of common fungi
- 09:00-10:00 Session 9: Taxonomy and phylogeny of eukaryotes
- 09:00-09:20 Pedro Crous: Fusarium, the NeverEnding Story
- 10:00-11:00 Session 10: Taxonomy and phylogeny of prokaryotes
- 10:00-11:00 Speakers t.b.c.
- 11:00-11:30 Coffee and Posters Session 3 / Tour WI as needed
- 11:30-13:30 ECCO XLIII Annual General Meeting (Members only)
- 13:30-13:40 Closing ECCO XLIII
- 13:40-14:30 Lunch & Farewell
