SATURDAY, 25/09/10:

• 09:00-19:00: Registration
• Training courses:
  
  • 10:00-18:00 Preservation of Laboratory Held Biological Material and Related Quality Management Room Flores I
  • 08:00-12:30 A Practical Approach to Microbial Identification by MALDI-TOF ICMS (Nelson Lima) Room Flores II
  
  
• Workshops:
  • 09:00-12:30 Self assessements (internal audits) according to the OECD Best Practice Guidelines Room Graciosa
  • 14:30-19:00 Rede Microbiana Embrapa (closed) Room Santa MariaI
  
  

SUNDAY, 26/09/10:

• 09:00-17:00: Registration
• 09:00-12:00: GBRCN Project Meeting (closed) Room Flores I
• 08:30-13:00: Rede Microbiana Embrapa (closed) Room Santa Maria
• 14:00-17:00: WFCC Board Meeting (closed) Room Graciosa
• 14:00-17:00: Meeting of the Biological Resource Center Network-Brazil (closed)Room Flores I
• 18:00-19:00: Opening Ceremony Room S�o Miguel
• 19:00-20:30 Welcome Cocktail Pool Deck

MONDAY 27/09/10: BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIO-BASED ECONOMIES

• Developing the bioeconomy (Iain Gillespie, OECD)
• Knowledge-based bio-economy: challenges and opportunities for Latin America (George Tzotzos, UNIDO)

• Biotechnologies revolutionizing healthcare (Carlos Morel, FIOCRUZ, Brazil)
• Managing intellectual property in the bioeconomy age (Jorge �vila, INPI, Brazil)

Room S�o Miguel
Session 3A: Bioprospecting the microbial diversity (Valeria Maia de Oliveira, Unicamp and Gabriel Padilla, USP, Brazil)


• Halophilic Bacteria as a Source of Extracellular Enzymes (Antonio Ventosa, University of Sevilla, Spain)
• Mining endophytic bacteria and fungi for polyketide biosynthetic genes (Gabriel Padilla, USP, Brazil)
• Mining metagenomes for novel enzymes (Timothy Vogel, University of Lyon, France)
• Screening for novel biodegraders in metagenomic libraries of petroleum-associated environments (Valeria Maia de Oliveira, Unicamp, Brazil)

Room Ilha Terceira
Session 3B: Biological material for health care innovation and epidemiological control (Claude Pirmez, FIOCRUZ and Luiz Henrique Pereira, MCT, Brazil)


• Biobanks, biomolecular resources and healthcare innovation (Kurt Zatloukal, BBMRI, Austria) .pdf">
• UK Health Protection Agency Culture Collections (David Lewis, UK)
• Biological resources for health care programs and epidemiological control in Brazil (Claude Pirmez, Fiocruz, Brazil)

Room Pico
Session 3C: Biofuels and bioremediation (Boris Stambuk, UFSC, Brazil and Juliano Cury, UFRJ, Brazil)


• 30 years of fuel ethanol production in Brazil: identification and selection of dominant industrial yeast strains (Mario Lucio Lopes, FERMENTEC Ltda, Brazil)
• Genomic adaptations of dominant sugarcane fermenting yeast strains (Boris Stambuk, UFSC, Brazil)
• Bioremediation of mangroves: from the lab bench to field application (Juliano Cury, UFRJ, Brazil)

Room Flores
Session 3D: European Consortium of Microbial Resources Centres (EMbaRC) Seminar


• EMbaRC - European Consortium of Microbial Resource Centres - Sylvie Lortal, INRA Rennes (Coordinator)
• Overview of the networking development and output - David Smith
• Transnational access and approaches for training in Microbial Resources Centres - Philippe Desmeth
• A Strategy for improving the use of mBRCs - Erko Stackebrandt
• MALDI-TOF ICMS as a powerful technique for strain authentications in Culture Collections - Cledir Santos and Nelson Lima, Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Roundtable:
• The feasibility of networking, access and exchange of information and material
• Strategies to encourage deposit in mBRCs and their use
Address:
• How can biological resources be harnessed better
• How can EMbaRC/GBRCN etc become drivers of innovation and research

Room S�o Miguel
Session 4A: Resource Centers and Biotechnological Applications (Lara Sette, CBMAI, Brazil)


• Brazilian Clone Collection Center (BCCCenter): A Sequencing Facility and a Repository Center for Biotechnological Applications (Agda Paula Facincani, Renata Izabel Dozzi Tezza, Marilza Mota da Silva, Jesus Aparecido Ferro - Brazil)
• SRCAMB Collection Of Phosphate Solubilizing Microorganisms As A Long-Term Bioresource (Igor A. Dunaytsev, Svetlana K. Zhigletsova, Marina V. Klykova, Tatiana N. Kondrashenko, Andrey M. Baranov, Ivan A. Dyatlov - Russia)
• Characterization of Metagenomic Sequences From a Brazilian Petroleum Reservoir With Potential for Hydrocarbon Biodegradation (Isabel Natalia Sierra Garc�a, Suzan Pantaroto Vasconcellos, Eugenio Vaz Santos-Neto, Anete Pereira de Souza, Valeria Maia de Oliveira - Brazil)
• Construction of a Wine Yeast Genome Deletion Library (Tina Tran, Angus Forgan, Eveline Bartowsky, Anthony Borneman - Australia)
• Testing and Validating PCR-RFLP of Heat-shock Protein 70 Gene for Further Use as a Universal Tool for Leishmania Identification and for Replacing MLEE, Fiocruz,Brazil (Mariana C�rtes Boit�, Ta�se Salgado de Oliveira, Barbara Neves dos Santos, Elisa Cupolillo - Brazil)

Room Terceira
Session 4B: Biotechnological Applications (Valeria Maia, CBMAI, Brazil)


• Production of Volatile Antibiotics From an Endophytic Fungus (phomopsis sp.) of Odontoglossum sp. (orchidaceae) and its Potential Practical Applications (Sanjay K. Singh, Gary A. Strobel - USA)
• Endophytic Fungi in Cucurbitaceous Plants and Their Inhibitive Effects on Common Soilborne Pathogens of Cucurbits (Yongchun Niu, Linxuan Mu, Chunli Jin, Hui Deng - China)
• Textile Dyes Decolorization and Ligninolytic Activity by Marine-D (Rafaella Costa Bonugli Santos, Lucia Regina Durrant, Lara Dur�es Sette - Brazil)
• Growth Stimulatory Effect of Mycelium of Several Coprinoid Mushrooms (Badalyan S.M. - Armenia, Karapetyan H.V. - Armenia, M. Navarro-Gonz�lez - Germany and U. K�es - Germany)
• Sub-aerial algal diversity in the biofilms of terracota temples of Bishnupur, West Bengal, India and their Biotechnological potential (Jnanendra Rath, Sikha Mandal, Samit Ray - India)
• Plant waste bioconversion by indigenous micromycetes - Uzbekistan (Tashpulatov Javlon, Shulman Tat'yana, Kukanova Svetlana, Zaynitdinova Lyudmila - Uzbekistan)

Room Pico
Session 4C: Microbial Taxonomy and Ecology (Lindsay Sly, University of Quuensland, Australia)


• Diversity of culturable and unculturable bacteria in soil samples from Hoh Xil (Jin-Jin Su, Yu-Quin Zhang, Ying Sun, Rong Jin, Li-Li Zhao, Yu Wang, Hong-Yu Liiu, Jing Su, Li-Yan Yu - China)
• Ecogeographical and Host-Especificity studies of Alternaria species naturally associated with the family Brassicaceae in Brazil (Ailton Reis, Leonardo Silva Boiteux - Brazil)
• Unusual ITS Sequence Heterogeneity in the Luminous Mushroom Neonothopanus nambi from Vietnam (Galina Vydryakova - Russia, Parivash Shoukouhi - Canada, Psurtseva Nadezhda - Russia, Van Dao - Vietnan, John Bissett - Canada)
• Evaluation of the Diversity in Two Species of the Genus Propionibacterium: Mass Spectrometry Versus Triple-Locus Sequence Analysis for 40 Strains of Propionibacterium acnes and Propionibacterium freudenreichii (Valence-Bertel Florence, Bouvet Philippe, Jardin Julien, Dalmasso Marion, Nicolas Cabanel, Chantal Bizet, Clermont Dominique - France)
• A Multilocus worldwide phylogeny of Fomitiporia evidence a strong biogeographical pattern within the genus, with endemism at species and lineage levels (Cony Decock, Mario Amalfi - France)
• Molecular methods and their role in the taxonomic reclassification of Nocardia spp. preserved in a culture collection (Maria Mercedes Panizo - Venezuela, Vera Reviakina - Venezuela, Maribel Dolande - Venezuela, Mayela Uzcategui-Negron - Venezuela, Jose Antonio Serrano - Venezuela, Patrick Boiron - France, Veronica Rodriguez-Nava - France, Andree Couble - France, Delphine Mouniee - France, Karina Sanchez-Herrera - Mexico, Horacio Sandoval - Mexico)

Room Flores
Session 4D: Microbial Taxonomy and Ecology (Carlos Rosa, UFMG, Brazil)


• Strain Specific Detection Made Easy By Genome Sequencing (Elke Brockmann, Mads Bennedsen, Birgitte Stuer-Lauridsen, Anna S�rensen, Jannie Schnabl, Anette Wind - Denmark)
• Entomopathogenic Fungi in extreme environments (Loreto Merino - Chile, Andres France - Chile, Steve Edgington - UK, Dave Moore - UK)
• Species diversity of yeasts in the northern and southern areas of Japan (Masako Takashima, Takashi Sugita, Kwang-Deuk An, Moriya Ohkuma - Japan)
• Two New Thermotolerant Species of Myceliophthora sp. From Soil and Compost Piles (Ascomycota: Onygenales) (Andr� Rodrigues, M�rcia Maria de Souza Moretti, Rafaella Costa Bonugli-Santos, Eleni Gomes, Lara Dur�es Sette - Brazil)

• Biotechnological applications
• Microbial taxonomy and ecology

TUESDAY 28/09/10: MICROBIAL DIVERSITY AND DEVELOPMENTS IN TAXONOMY AND ECOLOGY

• The untapped microbial diversity and its implications (J�rg Overmann, DSMZ, Germany)
• New wine in old skins: how flexible will bacterial taxonomy be in the (post) genomic era? (Erko Stackebrandt, Germany)

• Complete genomes of uncultured bacterial endosymbionts of cellulolytic protists in the gut of termites (Moriya Ohkuma, JCM, Japan)
• Evaluation of functional genes for classification of pathogenic bacteria (Takayuki Ezaki, Gifu University, Japan)
• Integrating sequence-based environmental species into fungal taxonomy (David S. Hibbett, Clark University, USA)

Room Ilha S�o Miguel
Session 7A: Prokaryotes (Lindsay Sly, Australia and Antonio Ventosa, Spain)


• Living in the tree: a taxonomic perspective from within (Erko Stackebrandt, Germany)
• Quality standards by "Certificates of Deposits" (Peter K�mpfer Germany)
• The Family Halomonadaceae as a Model of Halophilic Bacteria for Multilocus Sequence Analysis (Antonio Ventosa, University of Sevilla, Spain)

Room Terceira
Session 7B: Filamentous Fungi (Lara Sette, Brazil and Nelson Lima, Portugal)


• Evolution of nutritional modes in Agaricomycetes: Phylogenetic and comparative genomic perspectives (David S. Hibbett, Clark University, USA)
• New species and populations in Fusarium: examples from the tropics (Ludwig H. Pfenning, UFLA, Brazil).
• Polyphasic taxonomy of toxigenic fungi (Marta H. Taniwaki, ITAL, Brazil)

Room Pico
Session 7C: Yeasts (Carlos Rosa, UFMG, Brazil)


• Evolution of the yeast species concept in the age of sequencing (Marc-Andr� Lachance, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, Canada)
• Oaks, grapevines and the elusive ecology of Saccharomyces (Jos� Paulo Sampaio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
• South America: an invaluable source of yeast diversity lacking a specialized culture collection (Diego Libkind, Universidad Nacional del Coamhue, INIBIOMA-CONICET, Argentina)

Room Flores
Session 7D: Protozoa (Elisa Cupollilo, FIOCRUZ, Brazil)


• Proteomic tools for the study of protozoan parasites (Patricia Cuervo, IOC-Fiocruz, Brazil)
• The Leishmania collection of Montpellier: a tool for studying taxonomy, phylogeography and epidemiology (Jean-Pierre Dedet, CNRS/IRD, France)
• ProtozoaDB: comparative genomics approaches for the study of protozoan (Alberto M. R. D�vila, IOC, Fiocruz, Brazil)

Room S�o Miguel
Session 8A: Data Management, Networking and Information Systems (Di LIU, IMCAS-BRC, China)


• Barcode-based Management System for Biological Resources (Jung-Sook Lee, Yong Jae Lee, Dan Oh Joo, Jong Seog Ahn - Korea)
• MicroXplore: A Prototype for Exploration on Databases with Microbial Information (Joaqu�n Sergio Zepeda Hern�ndez, Jovita Mart�nez Cruz, Juan Carlos Estrada Mora, Armando S�nchez Chavarr�a, Sergio V. Chapa Vergara - Mexico)
• Quality ranking of 16S sequences: an approach based on poset theory (Wim De Smet, Bert Verslyppe, Karel De Loof, Paul De Vos, Bernard De Baets, Peter Dawyndt - Belgium)
• BRC-DBMS: Database Management System for Biological Resource Centers (Natee Saelee, Ichaya Kaewprajob, Samnao Noksiri, Suwanee Chunhametha, Wanchern Potacharoen, Supawadee Ingsriswang - Thailand)
• SICol-Net: The Brazilian Microbial Resource Centre Network (Alexandre Marino, Diego Rocha, Sidnei de Souza, Dora Ann Lange Canhos, Vanderlei Perez Canhos - Brazil)

Room Terceira
Session 8B: Microbial Resource Centers: Quality Management Issues (Dunja Martin, DSMZ, Germany)


• The ISO 9001 Multi-site Quality Management System of the Belgian Coordinated Collections of Micro-Organisms, BCCM (Marleen Bosschaerts, Danielle Janssens, Claudine Vereecke - Belgium)
• IMCAS-BRC, Toward better management and more efficient exploitation of microbial resources (Yu-Guang ZHOU - China)
• Implementing the OECD Best Practice Guidelines at VKM (Oleg Stupar - Russia)
• Micoteca da Universidade do Minho (MUM): Implementation of a Quality Management System Based on ISO 9001:2008 (Marta F. Sim�es, Anabela Martins, Nicolina Dias, Cledir Santos, Nelson Lima - Portugal)
• Brazilian Collection of Environmental and Industrial Microorganisms (CBMAI): Towards the Establishment of a Biological Resource Centre (Lara Dur�es Sette, Fabiana Fantinatti Garboggini, Milena Binatti Ferreira, Paulo Menezes de Holanda Barros, Valeria Maia de Oliveira - Brazil)
• National Plan for Accreditation of Biological Resource Centres in Brazil (Elizabeth Cavalcanti, Ricardo N�brega, Waldemar da Silva Souza)

Room Pico
Session 8C: Microbial Resource Centers: Preservation and Characterization Techniques


• Preservation and cultivation of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, NBRC, NITE (Yoshihito Uchino, Ken-ichiro Suzuki - Japan)
• Monosodium Glutamate as Lyoprotector: Effectiveness during Freeze-drying and Storage of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp.bulgaricus (Gladys Irma Martos, Graciela Font de Valdez - Argentina)
• Technical Activities Focused On Reorganization of Federal Culture Collection of Pathogen Microorganisms (Andrey M. Baranov, Igor A. Dunaytsev, Ivan A. Dyatlov - Russia)
• Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) as a Tool for Rapid Establishment of Clonal Microalgal Cultures at the National Bank of Algae, Canary Islands, Spain (Paulo Sergio Salomon, Giraldo Silva Ana Maria, Guillermo Garcia-Reina - Spain)

Room Flores
Session 8D: Microbial Resource Centers: Policy Issues and Networking ( Kevin McCluskey, FGSC, USA)


• Building a National BRC � the Case MICCO in Finland (Pekka Oivanen - Finland)
• Setting up of a Multicomponent Biological Resource Center for Agroecology at INRA (Dijon, France) (Steinberg Christian, Delaitre Catherine, Duc G�rard, Gianiniazzi-Pearson Vivienne, H�raud C�cile, Lemanceau Philippe, Montfort Val�rie, Reboud Xavier - France)
• Fungi culture collection at the Centro Venezolano de Colecciones de Microorganismos (CVCM) (Maria Mercedes Panizo, Vera Reviakina, Maribel Dolande, Juana Vitelli-Flores, Vidal Rodriguez-Lemoine - Venezuela)
• Microbial Culture Collections from Argentina (Gladys Martos, Graciela Davel, Raquel Terragno, N�lida Leardini, Mirtha Floccari, Silvana Levis, Alejandro Perticari, Elizabeth Sfreddo - Argentina)
• Recent Activities of the Japan Society for Culture Collections (Sato Toyozo, Ezaki Takayuki, Fudou Ryosuke, Kasai Fumie, Kudo Takuji, Maruyama Akihiko, Mikami Yuzuru, Nakagawa Yasuyoshi, Sugawara Hideaki, Takashima Masako, Tanaka Naoto, Watanabe Makoto, Suzuki Ken-ichiro - Japan)

• Biotechnological applications
• Microbial taxonomy and ecology

• Report 2008-2010
• FELACC Statutes
  
  

  WEDNESDAY 29/09/10: e-INFRASTRUCTURE, DATA MANAGEMENT AND NETWORKING

  
  Room S�o Miguel
  09:00-10:30 Session 9: e-Infrastructure, biological data management and networking (Vanderlei Perez Canhos, CRIA, Brazil and Di LIU, IMCAS-BRC, China))
  
  
  • Data infrastructure for innovation in life sciences and biotechnology (Juncai Ma, IMCAS-BRC, China)
  • Data standards and protocols for biological collections data (Renato De Giovanni, CRIA, Brazil)
  • The Global Biological Resource Centres Network Architecture ( Vanderlei Perez Canhos, CRIA, Brazil )
  
  10:30-11:00 Coffee break
  
  11:00-12:30 Session 10 Microbial Knowledge Integration (Peter Dawyndt, Ghent University, Belgium and Renato De Giovanni)
  
  
  • The Catalogue of Life: an international taxonomic backbone for the organization of biotic materials (Peter Schalk, ETI, Netherlands)
  • StrainInfo 2.0: providing passports for cultured microbes (Peter Dawyndt, Ghent University, Belgium)
  • The role of culture collections and DNA banks in the Genomic Encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea (Hans-Peter Klenk, Germany)
  
  
  12:30-14:00 Lunch
  
  14:00-18:00 ICCC-12 Excursion
  
  

  THURSDAY 30/09/10: THE GLOBAL BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE CENTRES NETWORK (GBRCN)

  
  Room S�o Miguel
  09:00-10:30 Session 11: From culture collections to biological resource centres (David Smith, GBRCN Secretariat and Kurt Zatloukal, BBMRI Secretariat)
  
  
  • Social, economic, scientific and community impact of a global network (David Smith, GBRCN Secretariat)
  • An infrastructure to provide the drive for innovation (Dagmar Fritze, GBRCN Secretariat)
  • Biobanks and biomolecular resources: Outreach and linkages (Kurt Zatloukal, BBMRI Secretariat)
  
  10:30-11:00 Coffee break
  
  11:00-12:30 Session 12: GBRCN implementation and coordination with national and regional efforts (Dagmar Fritze, GBRCN Secretariat and Maria Sueli Soares Felipe, MCT, Brazil)
  
  
  • Governance model of GBRCN (Dagmar Fritze, GBRCN Secretariat)
  • Biological Resource Centers Networking Model in Brazil (Vanderlei Canhos, CRIA, Brazil)
  • The European project EMbaRC (Sylvie Lortal, INRA, France)
  • Cluster model for network output: implementation of OECD best practice guidelines (Dunja Martin, DSMZ, Germany)
  
  12:30-14:00 Lunch
  
  14:00-16:00 Parallel Sessions: key issues in the management of resource centres
  
  Room S�o Miguel
  13 A: Tools for strain authentication (Nelson Lima, U. Minho, Portugal)
  
  
  • Microbial Classification/Identification and Authentication Using MALDI-TOF Intact Cell Mass Spectrometry (Cledir Santos and Nelson Lima, UMinho, Portugal)
  • Quality control of Saccharomyces yeasts: differentiation of species level and strain grouping using COX 2 gene analysis and MALDI-TOF MS analysis (Hiroko Kawasaki, NBRC, Japan)
  • Molecular caracterization of Sporothrix clinical isolates involved in sporotrichosis epidemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Rosely Maria Zancop�-Oliveira, Fiocruz, Brazil)
  • Phenotype MicroArrays - a platform for phenotypic characterization of cells and species description (Stacey O. Montgomery, Biolog Inc, USA)
  
  Room Terceira
  13 B: Legal and safety issues (Malcolm Dando, Bradford University, UK and Manuela da Silva, Fiocruz, Brasil)
  
  
  • The Biosafety and Laboratory Biosecurity programme at the World Health Organization (Nicoletta Previsani, World Health Organization)
  • US Approach to the Control Biological Materials (Marie Isabelle Chevrier, University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  • Biosafety and Biosecurity Regulations in Germany (Peter K�mpfer, Head of Commitee for Biological Agents, Germany)
  • Dual use in the biological science and Brazilian Initiatives: Pronabens (Giane A. Petrocchi dos Santos, Ag�ncia Brasileira de Intelig�ncia. Brazil)
  • Global Awareness-Raising and Education for Biosafety and Biosecurity: A Status Report (Malcolm Dando, Bradford University, UK)
  
  Room Pico
  13 C: Quality management in resource centers (Dunja Martin, DSMZ and Paulo Holanda, TECPAR)
  
  
  • Key issues in quality management and implementation of the OECD Best Practice Guidelines (Dunja Martin, DSMZ, Germany and Paulo Holanda, TECPAR, Brazil)
  • Short presentations on how the OECD Best Practice Guidelines are impacting quality management at CBMAI (Brazil) , BCCM (Belgium), DSMZ (Germany), VKM (Russia) , IMCAS(China) and BCRC/FIRDI (Taiwan)
  • Discussion focused on:
    • main challenges and impacts of implementing OECD Best Practice Guidelines
    • OECD Best Practice Guidelines compared to ISO quality management systems
  
  Room Flores
  13 D: Intellectual property and innovation in biotechnology (Zea Mayerhoff, INPI, Brazil and Vera Weihs, DSMZ, Germany)
  
  
  • The Budapest Treaty and its importance for biotechnological inventions (Ewald Glantschnig, WIPO)
  • IDAs - 30 years of experiences world-wide (Vera Weihs, DSMZ, Germany)
  • Brazilian Center of Biological Material (Zea Mayerhoff, INPI-CBMB, Brazil)
  
  
  
  16:00-16:30 Coffee break
  
  16:30-18:45 Parallel sessions
  Room S�o Miguel
  14 A: National and regional efforts (Philippe Desmeth, BELSPO and Kevin McCluskey, USA)
  
  
  • The Asian Consortium for the Conservation and. Sustainable Use of Microbial Resources (Ken-Ichiro Suzuki, NITE, Japan)
  • Networking Australian Collections of Microorganisms within the Atlas of Living Australia (Lindsay Sly, University of Queensland, Australia)
  • The European story, from CABRI to EMbaRC (Dagmar Fritze, DSMZ, Germany)
  • Latin American Federation for Culture Collections, FELACC Present and future (Graciela Davel, FELACC)
  • Networking Culture Collections in USA (Kevin McCluskey, FGSC, USA)
  
  Room Terceira
  14 B: Biological resources preservation and management (Peter Green, NCIMB, Scotland)
  
  
  • Long term preservation of plant cell lines (Martin Schumacher, DSMZ, Germany)
  • Handling and preservation of plant seeds for patent purposes (Peter Green, NCIMB, Scotland)
  • Management of Wine Microorganisms for the Australian Wine Industry (Eveline Bartowsky, The Australian Wine Research Institute, Australia)
  • Multi-stage fermentation for improved preservation of microbial consortia: the IMO labs experience (Martha Hedwig D Bayer and Angelito O. Abaog, Bio-Innovation Centre, Singapore)
  
  Room Pico
  14 C: Information management and data analysis systems in culture collections: why we need them? (Vincent Robert, CBS, Netherlands)
  
  
  • Managing Microbes e-learning tool ( David Smith, CABI, UK)
  • Bioinformatics and Information management and data analysis systems (Vincent Robert, CBS, Netherlands)
  • Management of DNA Barcoding data (Di Liu, IMCAS, China)
  • SICol-M and SICol-Net: management and dynamic integration of microbial data (Sidnei de Souza, CRIA, Brazil)
  
  
  
  18:30-19:00 Poster Sessions
  • Data management, networks and information systems
  • Microbial Resource Centers: preservation, quality management, legal and safety issues
  19h30: Conference Dinner
  
  

  FRIDAY 01/10/10: SKERMAN AWARD, WFCC GENERAL ASSEMBLY and GBRCN VISION

  
  Room Cascaes
  09:00-09:45 Session 15 - Skerman Award
  
  
  • Microbial Taxonomy and Phylogeny: Extending from rRNAs to Genomes (Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  
  09:45-11:15 Session 16 - WFCC General Assembly
  • Agenda of the Florian�polis General Assembly
  • Minutes of the Goslar General Assembly
  
  11:15-12:00 Session 17 - GBRCN Vision
  
  12:00-12:30 Session 18 - ICCC12 closure
  
  12:30-14:00 - Lunch
  
  Room Graciosa
  14:00-17:30 WFCC Board Meeting (closed)
  
  Room Santa Maria
  14:00-16:30 Meeting of the Biological Resource Centre Network-Brazil (closed)

  SATURDAY 02/10/10:

  • Workshop: IDAs - Depositary Centres of Biological Material for Patent Purposes
    - Room Santa Maria
    
  • post-conference excursions
    
  • departure