30th annual meeting of the European Culture Collections' Organization

Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of June, 2011
Utrecht, the Netherlands

Thursday June 16
Opening ECCO XXX and Welcome – Daina Eze (President of ECCO), Pedro Crous (Director of CBS-KNAW)
Session 1: Phylogeny and taxonomy of microorganisms
Chair:
Pedro W. Crous
  • Biological Resource Centres facing the challenge of species discovery in Kingdom Fungi
    Pedro Crous, CBS-KNAW, the Netherlands (PDF3.25 MB, PPT72.33 MB)
  • Evaluation of the diversity of Propionibacterium acnes : mass spectrometry versus gene sequencing
    Dominique Clermont, Institut Pasteur, France (PPT2.35 MB)
  • Algae resources from a European perspective: Joint efforts for preserving algal diversity and stimulating advances in Green Algal taxonomy
    Thomas Friedl, Albrecht von Haller Inst., Germany (PPT11.02 MB)
  • From High Throughput Screening of laccase activities to the use of laccase gene as phylogenetic tool in Pycnoporus
    Laurence Lesage-Meessen, INRA/CIRM-CF, France (PPT1.44 MB)
Session 2: The Role of BRCs in developing new and existing information resources
Chair:
Joost Stalpers & Vincent Robert
  • YeastIP: a database for identification and phylogeny of hemiascomycetous yeasts
    Stéphanie Weiss, INRA, CIRM-Levures & UMR Micalis, France (PPT2.83 MB)
  • Integrating biological resources and bioinformatic data: The development of the CCAP Knowledgebase
    John Day, SAM, Scottish Marine Institute, UK (PPT9.31 MB)
  • Global networking, more than data
    David Smith, CABI, UK (PPT4.54 MB)
  • Small talks: Microorganism-centered computing
    Peter Dawyndt, University of Ghent, Belgium
  • Databases – where do we go?
    Vincent Robert, CBS-KNAW, the Netherlands (PPT10.32 MB)
Session 3: Implementation of the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources: a pending subject
Chair:
Esperanza Garay & Hans-Peter Klenk
  • Short introduction to the CBD and its Nagoya Protocol
    Dagmar Fritze, DSMZ, Germany (PPT1.01 MB)
  • Working towards standard Material Transfer Agreements: from MOSAICC to ECCO and beyond. Novel strategies to govern the global exchange of microbial materials
    Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Univ. Cathol. Louvain, Belgium (PPT4.5 MB)
  • Access and Benefit Sharing: the position of a culture collection
    Claudine Vereecke, BCCM-LMG, Belgium (PPT1.15 MB)
Session 4: Progress in Collection Networking initiatives
Chair:
David Smith
  • WFCC and the re-launch of the WDCM
    Philippe Desmeth, Belspo-BCCM, Belgium (PPT4.81 MB)
  • ECCO developments and European projects
    Danielle Janssens, Ghent University, Belgium (PPT21.76 MB)
  • MICCO – The Finnish BRC organisation
    Pekka Oivanen, HAMBI Culture Collection, Finland (PPT308.7 KB)
  • EMbaRC - GBRCN to MIRRI
    David Smith, CABI, UK (PPT6.9 MB)
  • Round table discussion - Introductory lecture:
    The rational of public collections to expand their holdings: why, how, and further actions
    Erko Stackebrandt, DSMZ, Germany (PPT1.2 MB)
Friday June 17
Session 5: BRC´s liaising with private and governmental partners to strengthen food security, health care and the biobased-economy
Chair:
Daina Eze and Dagmar Fritze
  • CandIDazol: Innovative diagnostics for Candida spp. using comparative genomics
    Rolf Boesten, CBS-KNAW, The Netherlands
  • Ex situ conservation and industrial exploitation of filamentous fungi in Italy
    Cristina G. Varese, MUT, Italy (PPT38.73 MB)
  • Polish Collection of Microorganisms – research and cooperation with industry
    Agnieszka Korzeniowska-Kowal, PCM, Poland (PPT1.36 MB)
  • Service of MSCL for the advanced development of applied microbiology and ex-situ conservation of biological diversity in Latvia
    Daina Eze, MSCL, Latvia (PDF2.99 MB, PPT171.48 MB)
Session 6: new methods for strain identification and validation
Chair:
Nelson Lima & Gerard Verkley
  • Highlighting the phenotype - Raman spectroscopy for identification and typing of microorganisms
    Kees Maquelin, River Diagnostics, The Netherlands (PPT5.39 MB)
  • MALDI-TOF MS: Potentialities and applications for the microbial field
    Cledir Santos, MUM, Portugal
  • Physiological traits can aid fungal species identification
    Ronald de Vries, CBS-KNAW, The Netherlands (PPT16.28 MB)
  • Micoteca da Universidade do Minho (MUM): Implementation of a Quality Management System based on ISO 9001:2008
    Marta Simões, MUM, Portugal (PPT3.27 MB)