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Registration for ECCO XLIV (Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal) is now open!The organizers of the XLIV ECCO Meeting are pleased to welcome you to the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island (Azores, Portugal), from 14th to 16th September 2026.For more information and to register […]

The organizers of the XLIV ECCO Meeting are pleased to welcome you to the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island (Azores, Portugal), from 14th to 16th September 2026. The theme of this year’s meeting will be: “Integrative OMICS for a Changing Planet: New Frontiers in Taxonomy, […]

The European Commission has published a practical guide for researchers in the EU, which explains key ABS terms and concepts and describes the steps researchers should follow to comply with Regulation (EU) No 511/2014. The document is available here: https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2779/0071515 and here. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2779/0071515

Conference Protistology Open 2026 April 19 – 23, 2026 (Prague, Czech Republic)

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.