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International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) organise IUMS Biennial Congress 2026 on 4-6 November 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Culture Collection of algae and Protozoa are thrilled to announce the next in-person training course that will take place at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Oban, on the 28 and 29th of October. This two day course in a mix of hands-on lab practical classes and lectures. […]

Dear all, I have the pleasure to inform you that registration for the FREE Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Biobanking” from Institut Pasteur Paris is now open! How has biobanking evolved in recent years? What are the different biobanks and for which purposes? By the end of the course, you […]

The position paper on Exchange of strains between Culture Collections discusses the impact, advantages, and pitfalls related to the exchange of strains among ECCO collections and proposes new terms for cooperation. It is now published here and in Zenodo in this link: https://zenodo.org/records/14558612.

The organisers of this year’s ECCO meeting are pleased to welcome you to Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 15th  to 17th September. The general topic of that meeting will be “Securing and exploring microbial biodiversity for a sustainable and healthy future”. More info will follow soon. In the meantime we hope you will […]

DSI will be holding two webinars on the 10 and 11 of September on the key considerations for a multilateral mechanism for DSI in relation to COP16. Agenda Translating good intentions into an effective system to leverage DSI use in support of the GBF Understanding how DSI is stored and […]

We are very pleased to announce that the XLII European Culture Collections’ Organisation (ECCO) meeting will be held in the amazing city of Bari (Apulia region, Southern Italy), from 18 to 20 September 2024. The ECCO meeting is organised by the Institute of Sciences of Food Production of the National […]

Arising from discussions at the 2023 State of the World’s Plants and Fungi symposium, the ‘2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting’ contains five commitments towards filling key knowledge gaps in plant and fungal diversity, through collaborative and targeted collecting and research activities. Download the full declaration from the […]

ECCO XLII ‘Microbe & Microbiome management for a better planet’ will be held in Bari, Italy 18-20 September 2024. More information and registration will be available soon. Save the date!