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List of the sessions:
Culture collections: towards best practices to improve services for stakeholders. Chairs: Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz and Gerard Verkley
- Quality management: a toolbox to reach operational excellence in BRC’s. Maria-Helena Bosschaerts, BELSPO, Belgium
- Europe’s first Registered Collection under the Nagoya Protocol Amber Scholz, DSMZ, Germany
- Legal issues related to the access to Spanish genetic resources. Aurora Zuzuarregui Mirò, CETC, Spain
Culture collections and neglected groups of organisms. Chairs: Dominique Clermont and Antonino Pollio
- Algal culture collections: biological resource centres of high diversity and biotechnological potential. Maike Lorenz, SAG, German
- France Microalgal diversity in the Roscoff Culture Collection Priscillia Gourvil
- A source of living planktonic protists at Trieste, COSMI (collection of sea microorganisms) Alfred Beran, OGS, Italy
- Mycoviruses in fungal collections: not only for quality control
Marco Forgia, ISPP-CNR, Italy - A new NGS approach for small ruminant lentivirus full genome characterization. Barbara Colitti, UNITO, Italy
Newcomers and New tools to explore and valorise microbial biodiversity. Chairs: Ipek Kurtböke and Pietro Buzzini
- Biolog Phenotype MicroArray TM: harnessing high-throughput phenomics to characterize microbial isolates in culture collections
Enrico Tatti, Biolog Inc., USA - New yeast species isolated from worldwide cold environment
Benedetta Turchetti, UNIPG, Italy - Twenty thousand fungi under the sea Valeria Prigione, UNITO, Italy
New tools to identify and characterize microbial diversity. Chairs: Maria Kuyukina and Serge Casaregola
- Bruker MALDI biotyper: changing food microbiology and growing with technology. Cristiana Mirasole, Bruker Daltonics M&D, Italy
- MALDI-TOF MS for the identification of filamentous fungi; a success story? Marijke Hendrickx, BCCM-IHE, Belgium
- Genomic encyclopedia of bacterial and archaeal type strains, phase vi:
Michael Pester, DSMZ, Germany - Current understanding of the food microbiome in the era of big data
Ilario Ferrocino, UNITO, Italy - First metagenomic survey for a deep exploration into the biodiversity of the Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities. Laura Selbmann, UNITUS, Italy
Microbes in quality and safety of food. Chairs: Effie Tsakalidou and Giancarlo Perrone
- New taxonomies of food borne fungi Robert Samson, CBS, The Netherlands
- Taxonomic changes and their impact for science and the market: the case of genus Lactobacillus. Giovanna Felis, UNIVR, Italy
- Toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins: future challenges in human and animal health. Antonio Lo Grieco, ISPA-CNR, Italy
- The UNIMORE microbial culture collection: from strains storage to industrial starter cultures design. Luciana De Vero, UNIMORE, Italy
- Non-human primates Bifidobacteriaceae: a reservoir for application for animal well-being. Paola Mattarelli, UNIBO, Italy
Microbes at work in Bioeconomy and Biotechnological applications
Chairs: Giovanna Cristina Varese and Nelson Lima
- Italy Industrial biotechnologies as engine for the sutainable and circular bioeconomy. Mario Bonaccorso, Assobiotec – Federchimica, Italy
- Presentation of the book “What is the bioeconomy” with a focus on the role of microorganisms. Irene Baños Ruiz, freelance journalist
- The role of WFCC in the utilization of microbial resources for the benefit of mankind. Ipek Kurtböke, USC, Australia
- Immobilized Rhodococcus biocatalysts for enhanced bioremediation
Maria Kuyukina, IEGM, Russia - Biodiversity of fungi as bioresources to face diversity of soil threats
Andrea Ceci, UNIROMA, Italy
Microbes at work in Bioeconomy and Biotechnological applications. Chairs: Mery Pina and Robert Samson
- Tuber mycelia: a resource for improving truffle cultivation. Mirco Iotti, UNIVAQ, Italy
- The biodiversity and biotechnological potential of marine fungi associated with sponges Elena Bovio, UNITO, Italy
- CNR-ITEM collection: microbial resources for food bio-economy
Giancarlo Perrone, ISPA-CNR, Italy
Transboundary initiatives and IT Technologies
Chairs: Marleen Bosschaerts and Rosa Aznar
- Recent advances on the European research infrastructure MIRRI and its involvement in European projects. Serge Casaregola, CIRM- INRA, France
- The current progress of GCM 2.0 10 K Type Strains Sequencing Project
Juncai Ma, CAs, China - FAIR options in mBRC specifics. Alexander Vasilenko, VKM, Russia
- The Italian node (BBMRI.IT) of the European biobanking and biomolecular resources research infrastructure (BBMRI-ERIC)
Barbara Parodi, Ospedale San Martino, Italy