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Day 1
Welcome Address
- 9:00 General welcome to event, Gerard Verkley, Curator, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (WI-KNAW)
- 9:10 Welcome Address, Dr Ipek Kurtböke, Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
- 9:20 Introduce event and Key Note Speaker, Dr Bryan Bolton, Interim Head of Culture Collections Culture Collections, Public Health England
- 9:25 Microbial biodiscovery – process, international regulation and traceability, Marcel Jaspers, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Aberdeen
Session 1 – Validation and use of culture collections
Chairs: Dr Sam Law, Curator, NCIMB Ltd.
- 9:50 Re-identifying all dermatophyte strains in a fungal collection: discoveries and conclusions, Frederick Baert, Research Scientist, BCCM/IHEM Fungi Collection
- 10:10 Convolutional neural networks improve fungal classification, Dr Duong Vu, Researcher Biobank, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute,
- 10:30 WFCC: aims and achievements revisited in the post-genomic era, Dr Ipek Kurtböke, Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
- 10:50 Collections of Culture: The NCTC Artist in Residence, Anna Dumritu, Artist, NCTC artist in residence
- 11:10-11:30 Break
Session 2 – Nagoya Protocol and ABS
Chair: Katie Beckett, International Environmental Negotiator, Defra
- 11:30 CABI experiences in the collection, distribution and use of microorganisms in agricultural research, David Smith, Director Biological Resources, CABI
- 11:45 Registered Collection experiences from DSMZ and digital sequence information on genetic resources (DSI) update, Dr Amber Hartman – Scholz, Deputy to the Director, DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
- 12:00 Registered Collections from regulatory perspective, Dr Jane Collins, Enforcement Team Leader for Access and Benefit Sharing, BEIS
- 12:15 The new ECCO Model documents for MDA ad MTA, Gerard Verkley, Curator, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (WI-KNAW)
- 12:30 Panel Discussion
Oral Presentations Session A
Chair: Jim Cooper, Cell Applications Scientist, Culture Collections, Public Health England
- 12:50-13:40 6x8min (5 min presentations + 1 question) (poster or slides)
Day 2
Featured speaker – COVID
Chair: Dr Bryan Bolton, Interim Head of Culture Collections, Culture Collections, Public Health England
- 9:00 Emerging viral diseases: Making the leap from obscurity to notoriety, Dr Barry Atkinson, Senior Project Team Leader, Research, Public Health England
Session 3 – Microbiomes
Chair: Dr Daniel Swan, NGS Services Manager, NCIMB Ltd.
- 9:40 Fungal feelings in the Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Rene van den Wijngaard, Assistant Professor, Amsterdam University Medical Centres
- 10:00 How culture collections underpin microbiomes, Matthew Ryan, Research Lead Biological Resources, CABI
- 10:20 Diversity of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in natural and agricultural environment, Dr Sylvie Craenenbrouk, Research Associate, MUCL
- 10:40 Why do we need to preserve the microbial biodiversity, Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello, President, The Microbiota Vault., Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology,School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers
- 11:00-11:20 Break & Online posters view, Rutgers
Session 4 – Culture collection projects and research
Chairs: Gerard Verkley, Curator, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (WI-KNAW)
- 11:20 Paving the way to MIRRI-ERIC by the EU project IS_MIRRI21, Nelson Lima, IS_MIRRI21 Coordinator, Micoteca da Universidade do Minho
- 11:40 EBiSC: The European Bank for induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Dr. Rachel Steeg, Project manager of EBiSC2, EBiSC,
- 12:00 NCTC_3000 project, Dr Sarah Alexander, Lead Microbiologist: Head of Microbial Projects, Culture Collections, Public Health England
Oral Presentations B
Chair: Sarah Alexander, Lead Microbiologist: Head of Microbial Projects, Culture Collections, Public Health England
- 12:45-13:35 6x8min (5 min presentations + 1 question) (poster or slides)
Day 3
Session 5 – Standards (Quality, Safety, Biosecurity and Transportation)
Chair: Andy Aspin, Plant Bacteriologist, & Curator, NCPPB, Fera Science Ltd.
- 9:00 Biosecurity and Dangerous Goods Transportation, Emma Hobbs, Biosecurity Manager, Culture Collections, Public Health England
- 9:20 Considerations on the authentication of hybrid cell lines, Edward Burnett, Scientific Lead, Culture Collections, Public Health England
- 9:40 Standards in Biobanking, Samantha Welsh, Laboratory Manager, UK BioBank
- 10:00 Enhancing the Governance of Dual-Use Life Science Research through Effective Implementation of Codes of Conduct for Life Scientists, Dr Tatyana Novossiolova, Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria
- 10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
Session 6 – Bioinformatics and data management
Chair: Matt Ryan, Curator, CABI
- 10:40 New genes from old strains: The NCTC Staphylococcal enterotoxins, Dr Jo Dicks, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Culture Collections, Public Health England
- 11:00 Samplistic thinking: expanding the flexibility to manage culture-based collection processes and data in the context of natural science collections, Dr James Macklin, Research Scientist,
- 11:20 Next-generation biobanking and the microbiome, Dr Daniel Swan, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, NGS Services Manager, NCIMB Ltd.
- 11:40 Databasing, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Vincent Robert, Bioinformatics group leader, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
- 12:00 Panel discussion: Importance of bioinformatics and data management
- 12:15 Closing of Conference: Dr Bryan Bolton, Interim Head of Culture Collections Culture Collections, Public Health England; Gerard Verkley, Curator, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (WI-KNAW)
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-16:00 ECCO AGM: Video/tour of NCTC lab/super poster; Activity/photos/something social/social hub