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ECCO XL Braunschweig, Germany
“New Horizons in Accessing Microbial Diversity”
27 – 30 September, 2022

General program, incl. social program

Tuesday, 27 Sept

17:30 Foyer, Registration, Steigenberger Parkhotel Braunschweig, Nimes-Str. 2, 38100 Braunschweig
19:00 – 20:00 “Lounge 1777”, Icebreaker – snacks & drinks

Wednesday, 28 Sept

8:30 Foyer, Registration, Steigenberger Parkhotel Braunschweig, Nimes-Str. 2, 38100 Braunschweig
9:00 – 18:00 Maschinenhalle, ECCO XL – day 1
20:00 – 23:00 Maschinenhalle, “Grand Opening Dinner”

Thursday, 29 Sept

8:50 – 15:30 Maschinenhalle, ECCO XL – day 2, Steigenberger Parkhotel Braunschweig, Nimes-Str. 2, 38100 Braunschweig
17:30 Braunschweig city centre, Guided tour of city centre, starting point: Burgplatz (Lion Statue), 38100 Braunscheig; ends at: entrance Ristorante Al Duomo
19:00 – 20:00 “Ristorante Al Duomo”, Dinner, Ruhfäutchenplatz 1, 38100 Braunschweig (in the Hotel Deutsches Haus)

Friday, 30 Sept

09:00 Guided Tour through Leibniz Institute DSMZ, visit at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ, start: main entrance DSMZ, Inhoffenstr. 7 B, 38124 Braunschweig

Session 1: Role of Culture Collections in understanding and mitigating global challenges

09:10 keynote lecture, Johnnes Rousk, The microbial control of biogeochemistry in warming soils
09:40 contributed talk, Valeria Prigione, First report of Halophytophthora spp. on Posidonia oceanica seeds and seedlings
10:00 contributed talk, Irys Hany Lima Gonzalez, Collection of microorganisms from threatened biomes
10:20 contributed talk, Kerstin Voigt, Research with strain collections: The advantage of strain multitudes using the example of diagnostics of fungal infections
10:50 coffee break & posters

Session 2: Emerging Collections

11:30 keynote lecture, Till Strowig, From microbiome signatures to molecular mechanisms and novel therapeutic interventions
12:00 contributed talk, Perrine Portier, The Microstore project: Effects of preservation on taxonomic composition and functional diversity of microbial communities
12:20 contributed talk, Valeri Bagiyan, Role and Practical Application of Regional Culture Collections in Global Challenge Mitigation
12:40 contributed talk, Laura Steenpass, Next-generation cancer models – a human stem cellbased model for retinoblastoma
13:00 lunch

Session 3: The Future of Digital Collections

14:00 keynote lecture, Christian von Mering, The Microbe Atlas – A global survey of microbial diversity
14:30 contributed talk, Michael Ross, Introducing CCAP’s Bioinformatics Gateway
14:50 contributed talk, Julia Koblitz, MediaDive: the expert-curated cultivation media database
15:10 contributed talk, Jake David Turnbull, In silico analysis of Enterobacteriaceae plasmids held by the National Collection of Type Cultures
15:30 coffee break & posters
16:00 free topic talk, Joanna Świątczak, Microbial diversity evolution in sandstone tomb chapel following a bio-conservation treatment
16:20 free topic talk, Felizitas Bajerski, Is the occurrence of microorganisms in liquid storage tanks a challenge for cryobanking?
16:40 free topic talk, Richard L. Hahnke, Spotlighting Myxobacteria – Reichenbach collection
17:00 free topic talk, Nelson Lima, How IS_MIRRI21 H2020 Project paved the MIRRI-ERIC: The Current State of the Art
17:20 free topic posters
17:50 end of scientific program
20:00 conference dinner

Session 4: Challenges of Sharing and Exchanging Resources

09:00 keynote lecture, Christine Prat, Timely sharing of pandemic pathogen material: it’s not easy
09:30 contributed talk, Praveen Rahi, Challenges and opportunities for mBRCs in the era of regulated access policies
09:50 contributed talk, Edward R. B. Moore, The Relevance of Culture Collections within the scope of the Revised (2022) International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes
10:10 contributed talk, Giovanna C. Varese, Amazing microorganisms photo exhibition and other tools: how to map the real knowledge of civil society and interact with it in terms of microbiological literacy
10:30 coffee break & posters
11:00 40th Annual Meeting of ECCO
13:00 Lunch

Session 5: New Services of Culture Collections

14:00 keynote lecture, Heiko Zimmermann, EBiSC – a sustainable European Cryo-Bank for pluripotent Stem Cells: Past, present, future
14:30 contributed talk, Thomas Leya, The CCCryo: A bioresource of extremophiles for basic and applied research topics
14:50 contributed talk, Paris Laskaris, Screening a Greek actinobacterial culture collection for antiaging compound producers
15:10 contributed talk, Dennis Enning, Culture collections on the intersection of microbiome and material research: what can be achieved?
15:30 concluding remarks, Jörg Overmann, Gerard Verkleij
15:45 end of ECCO XL