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15th International Conference on Culture Collections – Save the Date

The Micoteca da Universidade do Minho (MUM), in collaboration with the Chilean Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO), the IS_MIRRI21 EU project (https://ismirri21.mirri.org/), MIRRI-ERIC (https://www.mirri.org/), the Portuguese microBiological Resource Centre Network /MIRRI-PT Node (Pt-mBRCN, https://mbrcn.pt/), the Portuguese Society of Microbiology (SPM, https://spmicrobiologia.wordpress.com) and the Portuguese Society of Biotechnology (SPBT, https://www.spbt.pt), is very pleased to announce that the next 15th International Conference on […]

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Enevold Falsen 1935-2022

We received the sad notice from CCUG Curator Ed Moore, that Enevolf Falsen, former curator of the CCUG collection, passed in January in Gothenburg, Sweden. Enevold was the founder and first Curator of CCUG from 1968 until his retirement in 2004. Many of our colleagues in the ECCO community will […]

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Barbara Kirsop (1919-2022)

One of the co-founders and first president of ECCO has passed away. She died on the 27th of January, at the age of 93. We owe the very existence of ECCO to visionary scientists like Barbara Kirsop. Joined by a small group of colleague curators, she set up an informal […]

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The new EC Guidance documents for the EU ABS Regulation

The long-awaited update of the first guidance document of 2016 was adopted and released by the European Commission on 14 December 2020. The new Guidance document C(2020)8759 (with Annexes I and II) incorporates and complements the previous document, and was again developed in consultation with stakeholders from all important sectors, […]

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International Microorganism Day

17 September is International Microorganism Day, an opportunity to promote the diversity and variety of microorganisms and a way to encourage everyone to recognize and celebrate the many ways microscopic organisms are important in human health, culture and, throughout our daily lives.

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