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Tuesday 19 September
MALDI-TOF MS workshop
Sciensano, 14 rue Juliette Wytsman, 1050 Brussels
9:00: Welcome coffee & registration
9:30: Introduction and MALDI-TOF MS basics in microbiology
Pierre Becker (BCCM-IHEM, Belgium)
9:50: Implementation of MALDI-TOF MS in the day-to-day operation of the BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection
Anneleen Wieme (BCCM-LMG, Belgium)
10:10: Application of MALDI-TOF MS in mycology and collections of fungal strains
Pierre Becker (BCCM-IHEM, Belgium)
10:30: MSI-2, an online identification tool for MALDI-TOF Mass Spectra
Anne-Cécile Normand (AP-HP, Sorbonne University, France)
10:55: MALDI Biotyper® – Spectra, Libraries and Identifications
Nathalie Grégoire (Bruker Daltonics)
11:20: Lab demonstration & Q/A session
12:30: Lunch
40 years BCCM
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 29 rue Vautier, 1050 Brussels
13:00: Welcome & ECCO registration
14:00: Keynote lectures
16:30: Opening Expo 40 years BCCM & networking reception
19:00: Walking buffet & animation
Wednesday 20 September
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 29 rue Vautier, 1050 Brussels
8:30: ECCO registration
9:00: Welcome address
9:15: Session 1 – Microbes in Health and Disease
Chair: Rudi Beyaert (BCCM/GeneCorner, Belgium)
Co-chair: Wouter De Schamphelaire (BCCM/GeneCorner, Belgium)
9:15 Keynote: In vitro technology to study live biotherapeutics and enteropathogens in the
human gut
Kim De Paepe (Ghent University, Belgium)
9:45 Towards standardization of next-generation real-time bioaerosol monitors
Nicolas Bruffaerts (Sciensano, Belgium)
10:10 Is hand disinfectant a public health problem?
Teresa Vale Dias (University of Minho, Portugal)
10:25: Coffee break
11:00: Session 2 – Microbes in Health and Disease
Chair: Rudi Beyaert (BCCM/GeneCorner, Belgium)
Co-chair: Wouter De Schamphelaire (BCCM/GeneCorner, Belgium)
11:00 Keynote: The oral cavity: a mouthful of opportunities
Marie Joossens (Ghent University, Belgium)
11:30 The VirusBank Platform: A new and unique research infrastructure enhancing preparedness
against future epi- or pandemics
Lorena Sanchez Filipe (KULeuven, Belgium)
11:55 Fungi from marine plastisphere as source of osteogenic and mineralogenic compounds
Matteo Florio Furno (University of Turin, Italy)
12:10 Using a polyphasic approach for exploring secondary metabolites from freshwater and
thermal cyanobacteria strains from Azores islands
Ruben Luz (University of the Azores, Portugal)
12:25: Lunch & posters
13:30: Session 3 – Microbes in Food and Agriculture
Chair: Stéphane Declerck (BCCM/MUCL, Belgium)
Co-chair: Gerard Verkleij (CBS & NCCB, The Netherlands)
13:30 Keynote: Biocontrol of plant pathogens combining AMF and bacteria
Marc Ongena (TERRA, Belgium)
14:00 Microfluidics to study microorganisms at the cellular level
Felix Richter (Imperial college London, UK)
14:25: Coffee break
15:00: Session 4 – Microbes in Food and Agriculture
Chair: Stéphane Declerck (BCCM/MUCL, Belgium)
Co-chair: Gerard Verkleij (CBS & NCCB, The Netherlands)
15:00 Keynote: Heterogeneity in food spoilage fungi
Jos Houbraken (Westerdijk Institute, The Netherlands)
15:30 Yeast diversity of cocoa bean heap fermentations and their environments
Heide-Marie Daniel (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
15:55 Lactobacilli and yeasts for phytate degradation in soy milk fermented products
Paola Mattarelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
16:10: End of session
17:30: Guided visit Chocolate museum
Thursday 21 September
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 29 rue Vautier, 1050 Brussels
8:30: Coffee
9:00: Session 5 – Microorganisms in ecological applications
Chair: Annick Wilmotte (BCCM/ULC, Belgium)
Co-chair: Cristina Varese (MUT, Italy)
9:00 Keynote: Understanding the mechanisms of stress resistance to optimize the
application of cyanobacteria for soil restoration
Beatriz Roncero Ramos (University of Seville, Spain)
9:30 Harnessing local rhizobia for soybean cultivation at northern latitudes
Helena Van den Eynde (Ghent University, Belgium)
9:55 Exploring the phytoplankton potential in the circular bioeconomy
Manuela Bordiga (National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, Italy)
10:10: Coffee break
10:50: Session 6 – Microorganisms in ecological applications
Chair: Annick Wilmotte (BCCM/ULC, Belgium)
Co-chair: Cristina Varese (MUT, Italy)
10:50 Keynote: Running a photobioreactor in space for the production of oxygen and
edible ‘spirulina’ biomass
Felice Mastroleo (SCK-CEN, Belgium)
11:20 Diversifying application of recycled nutrients derived from anaerobic digestion for
sustainable algal protein farming
Jai Sankar Seelam (Ghent University, Belgium)
11:45 A phylogenomic and comparative genomic analysis of Commensalibacter, a versatile
insect symbiont
Juliana Botero (Ghent University, Belgium)
12:05: Lunch & posters
13:15: Session 7 – Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Phylogenomics, Phylodynamics: new techniques and approaches
Chair: Leen Rigouts (BCCM/ITM, Belgium) and Peter Vandamme (BCCM/LMG, Belgium)
13:15 Keynote: Using genomes for the classification and tracking of mycobacteria
Conor Meehan (Nottingham University, UK)
13:45 Dermatophytes fungi: Phylogenomics of the Trichophyton mentagrophytes species
complex
Frederik Baert (Sciensano, Belgium)
14:10 Cyanobacterial Taxonomy in the Age of Phylogenomics
Aniket Saraf (University Paris Cité, France)
14:25 HAMBI/UHCC: A treasure trove of new cyanobacterial taxa and bioactive metabolites
Maria Christodoulou (University of Helsinki, Finland)
14:40: Coffee break
15:10: Session 8 – Data management, infrastructures
Chair: Philippe Desmeth (BCCM, Belgium)
Co-chair: Ayuen Lual (UKHSA, UK)
15:10 Keynote: WDCM services as an information infrastructure for the exploration and
utilization of microbial strains preserved worldwide
Juncai Ma (WDCM, China)
15:40 The beauty of data and databasing
Vincent Robert (BioAware, Belgium)
16:05 The GEN-ERA toolbox: unified and reproducible workflows for research in microbial
genomics
Luc Cornet (University of Liège, Belgium)
16:30: IS_MIRRI21: restricted to project partners
18:00: End of session
19:00: Conference dinner
Friday 22 September
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 29 rue Vautier, 1050 Brussels
8:30: Coffee
9:00: Session 9 – Science policy, career skills, valorization of collections
Chair: Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz (CNCM, France)
9:00 Keynote: How to write an influential review article
Daniela Ruffell (FEBS Letters, Germany)
9:30 Impacts of the exchange of strains between culture collections
Aurora Zuzuarregui (University of Valencia, Spain)
9:55 Policy aspects related to EU Research Infrastructures
Nelson Lima (University of Minho, Portugal)
10:20 The FEBS Journal poster award
Rudi Beyaert (The FEBS Journal editorial board)
10:30: Coffee break
11:00: ECCO Annual General Meeting: restricted to ECCO members and candidate members
13:00: Closing lunch