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Wednesday, 12 June 2019
13.30 – 15.00 Registration and Poster placing
15.00 – 15.30 Welcome addresses
- 15.00Prof. Gianmaria Ajani, Rector of the University of Torino
- 15.10Prof. Nelson Lima, ECCO President
- 15.20Prof. Ipek Kurtböke, WFCC President
15.30 – 16.20 Plenary Lecture Prof. Paola Bonfante, Professor Emeritus of the University of Torino, Italy
Fungi and bacteria for plant health: a microbial revolution
16.20 -17.20 Session 1. Culture collections: towards best practices to improve services for stakeholders – Chairs: Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz and Gerard Verkley
- 16.20 Maria-Helena Bosschaerts, BELSPO, Belgium – Quality management: a toolbox to reach operational excellence in BRC’s
- 16.40 Amber Scholz, DSMZ, Germany – Europe’s first Registered Collection under the Nagoya Protocol
- 17.00 Aurora Zuzuarregui Mirò, CETC, Spain – Legal issues related to the access to Spanish genetic resources
17.30 – 18.30 MDA and MTA working groups
19.30 Welcome party at the Botanical Garden of the University of Torino, viale Mattioli, 25 – Torino
Thursday, 13 June 2019
09.00 – 10.00 Session 2. Culture collections and neglected groups of organisms – Chairs: Dominique Clermont and Antonino Pollio
- 09.00 Maike Lorenz, SAG, Germany – Algal culture collections: biological resource centres of high diversity and biotechnological potential
- 09.20Priscillia Gourvil, Roscoff Culture Collection, France – Microalgal diversity in the Roscoff Culture Collection
- 09.40 Alfred Beran, OGS, Italy – A source of living planktonic protists at Trieste, COSMI (collection of sea microorganisms)
- 10.00 Marco Forgia, ISPP-CNR, Italy – Mycoviruses in fungal collections: not only for quality control
- 10.20 Barbara Colitti, UNITO, Italy – A new NGS approach for small ruminant lentivirus full genome characterization
10.40 – 11.20 Coffee Break and Poster session
11.20 – 13.00 Session 3. Newcomers and New tools to explore and valorise microbial biodiversity – Chairs: Ipek Kurtböke and Pietro Buzzini
- 11.20 Enrico Tatti, Biolog Inc., USA – Biolog Phenotype MicroArray TM: harnessing high-throughput phenomics to characterize microbial isolates in culture collections
- 11.40 Benedetta Turchetti, UNIPG, Italy – New yeast species isolated from worldwide cold environment
- 12.00 Edward R.B. Moore, CGUG, Sweden – Culture collection University of Gothenburg (CGUG): 50 years young and growing in the 21stcentury, archiving, typing, identifying and researching clinically-relevant bacteria
- 12.20 Valeria Prigione, UNITO, Italy – Twenty thousand fungi under the sea
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch and Poster session
14.30 – 16.20 Session 4. New tools to identify and characterize microbial diversity – Chairs: Maria Kuyukina and Serge Casaregola
- 14.30 Cristiana Mirasole, Bruker Daltonics M&D, Italy – Bruker MALDI biotyper: changing food microbiology and growing with technology
- 14.50 Marijke Hendrickx, BCCM-IHE, Belgium – MALDI-TOF MS for the identification of filamentous fungi; a success story?
- 15.10 Michael Pester, DSMZ, Germany – Genomic encyclopedia of bacterial and archaeal type strains, phase vi: the functional genomics and pangenomes of type strains
- 15.30 Ilario Ferrocino, UNITO, Italy – Current understanding of the food microbiome in the era of big data
- 15.50 Laura Selbmann, UNITUS, Italy – First metagenomic survey for a deep exploration into the biodiversity of the Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities
16.20 – 17.00 Coffee Break and Poster session
17.00 – 18.30 Session 5. Microbes in quality and safety of food – Chairs: Effie Tsakalidou and Giancarlo Perrone
- 17.00 Robert Samson, CBS, The Netherlands – New taxonomies of food borne fungi
- 17.20 Giovanna Felis, UNIVR, Italy – Taxonomic changes and their impact for science and the market: the case of genus Lactobacillus
- 17.30 Antonio Lo Grieco, ISPA-CNR, Italy – Toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins: future challenges in human and animal health
- 17.50 Luciana De Vero, UNIMORE, Italy – The UNIMORE microbial culture collection: from strains storage to industrial starter cultures design
- 18.10 Paola Mattarelli, UNIBO, Italy – Non-human primates Bifidobacteriaceae: a reservoir for application for animal well-being
20.00 – Social dinner at Ristorante Esperia, c.so Moncalieri, 2 – Torino
Friday, 14 June 2019
09.00 – 10.40 Session 6. Microbes at work in Bioeconomy and Biotechnological applications – Chairs: Giovanna Cristina Varese and Nelson Lima
- 09.00 Mario Bonaccorso, Assobiotec – Federchimica, Italy – Industrial biotechnologies as engine for the sutainable and circular bioeconomy
- 09.20 Irene Baños Ruiz, freelance journalist – Presentation of the book “What is the bioeconomy” with a focus on the role of microorganisms
- 09.40 Ipek Kurtböke, WFCC, Australia – The role of WFCC in the utilization of microbial resources for the benefit of mankind
- 10.00 Maria Kuyukina, IEGM, Russia – Immobilized Rhodococcusbiocatalysts for enhanced bioremediation
- 10.20 Andrea Ceci, UNIROMA, Italy – Biodiversity of fungi as bioresources to face diversity of soil threats
10.40 – 11.30 Coffee Break and Poster session
11.30 – 12.30 Session 6. Microbes at work in Bioeconomy and Biotechnological applications – Chairs: Mery Pina and Robert Samson
- 11.30 Elena Bovio, UNITO, Italy – The biodiversity and biotechnological potential of marine fungi associated with sponges
- 11.50 Mirco Iotti, UNIVAQ, Italy – Tubermycelia: a resource for improving truffle cultivation
- 12.10 Giancarlo Perrone, ISPA-CNR, Italy – CNR-ITEM collection: microbial resources for food bio-economy
12.30 -13.30 Lunch and Poster session
13.30 – 15.00 Session 7. Transboundary initiatives and IT Technologies – Chairs: Marleen Bosschaerts and Rosa Aznar
- 13.30Serge Casaregola, CIRM- INRA, France – Recent advances on the European research infrastructure MIRRI and its involvement in European projects
- 13.50Juncai Ma, CAs, China – The current progress of GCM 2.0 10 K Type Strains Sequencing Project
- 14.10Alexander Vasilenko, VKM, Russia – FAIR options in mBRC specifics
- 14.30 Barbara Parodi, Ospedale San Martino, Italy – The Italian node (BBMRI.IT) of the European biobanking and biomolecular resources research infrastructure (BBMRI-ERIC)
14.50 – 15.00 Closing of the Conference
15.00 – 17.00 ECCO Annual General Meeting
Please, download the pdf of the Scientific Program XXXVIII ECCO MEETING 2019 (updated on 19th May 2019)