SATURDAY, 25/09/10:

• Training courses:
  
  • Preservation of Laboratory Held Biological Material and Related Quality Management
  • A Practical Approach to Microbial Identification by MALDI-TOF ICMS
  
  
• Workshop:
  • Self assessements (internal audits) according to the OECD Best Practice Guidelines
  
  

SUNDAY, 26/09/10:

• 09:00-17:00: registration
• 09:00-12:00: GBRCN Project Meeting (closed)
• 09:00-12:00: EMBRAPA Meeting (closed)
• 14:00-17:00: WFCC Board Meeting (closed)
• 19:00: opening ceremony

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 (FIOCRUZ, Brazil)
• Managing intellectual property in the bioeconomy age (Jorge Ávila, INPI, Brazil)

Session 3A: Bioprospecting the microbial diversity (Valeria Maia de Oliveira, Unicamp, Brazil)


• Extremophilic microorganisms as source of novel biocatalysts (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)

Session 3B: Biological material for health care innovation and epidemiological control (Claude Pirmez, FIOCRUZ, Brazil)


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

Session 3C: Biofuels and bioremediation (Boris Stambuk, UFSC, Brazil and Alexandre Rosado, 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 (Alexandre Rosado, UFRJ, Brazil)

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


• Introduction to EMbaRC - Sylvie Lortal, INRA Rennes (Coordinator)
• Overview of the networking development and output - David Smith
• Transnational access and approaches for training in Microbial Research Centres (mBRCs) - Philippe Desmeth
• Strategies for improving the use of mBRCs - Erko Stackebrandt
• MALDI-TOF ICMS as a powerful technique for strain authentications in Culture Collections - Cledir Santos, Marta F. Simões 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

Session 4A: Resource Centers and Biotechnological Applications


• 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 García, 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 Côrtes Boité, Taíse Salgado de Oliveira, Barbara Neves dos Santos, Elisa Cupolillo - Brazil)

Session 4B: Biotechnological Applications


• 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 Durães Sette - Brazil)
• Growth Stimulatory Effect of Mycelium of Several Coprinoid Mushrooms (Badalyan S.M. - Armenia, Karapetyan H.V. - Armenia, M. Navarro-González - Germany and U. Kües - 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)

Session 4C: Microbial Taxonomy and Ecology


• 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)
• Host range and prevalence of species and races of Verticillium isolates infecting tomatoes and other vegetable crops 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)

Session 4D: Microbial Taxonomy and Ecology


• Strain Specific Detection Made Easy By Genome Sequencing (Elke Brockmann, Mads Bennedsen, Birgitte Stuer-Lauridsen, Anna Sørensen, 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)
• Haloaranus kashanensis proposed as new taxon of extremely halophilic archaea (Shahzedeh Fazeli Abolhasan, Amoozegar Mohammad Ali, Makhdoumi-kakhki Ali, Ventosa Antonio)
• Phylogenetic Analysis of Nodulation and Nitrogen Fixation Genes of a Brazilian Collection of Bradyrhizobium Strains. (Pamela Menna, Renan A. Ribeiro, Mariangela Hungria - Brazil)
• Two New Thermotolerant Species of Myceliophthora sp. From Soil and Compost Piles (Ascomycota: Onygenales) (André Rodrigues, Márcia Maria de Souza Moretti, Rafaella Costa Bonugli-Santos, Eleni Gomes, Lara Durães Sette - Brazil)

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

• The untapped microbial diversity and its implications (Jörg 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 (T. Ezaki, Gifu University, Japan)
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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 Kämpfer Germany)
• Multilocus sequence analysis of the family Halomonadaceae (Antonio Ventosa, University of Sevilla, Spain)

Session 7B: Filamentous Fungi (Lara Sette, Unicamp, Brazil)


• Evolution of fungal morphology and ecological strategies (David S. Hibbett, Clark University, USA)
• Endemics or cosmopolitans? Molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Søren Rosendahl, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Polyphasic taxonomy of toxigenic fungi (Marta H. Taniwaki, ITAL, Brazil)

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


• The evolution of the species concept in the sequencing age (Marc-André Lachance, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, Canada)
• Oaks, grapevines and the elusive ecology of Saccharomyces (José 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)

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)
• Molecular epidemiology and evolution of parasitic protozoa (Michel Tibayrenc, GEMI-IRD, France)
• ProtozoaDB: comparative genomics approaches for the study of protozoan (Alberto M. R. Dávila, IOC, Fiocruz, Brazil)

Session 8A: Data Management, Networking and Information Systems


• 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 (Joaquín Sergio Zepeda Hernández, Jovita Martínez Cruz, Juan Carlos Estrada Mora, Armando Sánchez Chavarría, 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)
• Integrated Information Platform for Biological Resource Centers (Di Liu, Linhuan Wu, Quanhe Liu, Guanghui Guo, Juncai Ma - China)
• SICol-Net: The Brazilian Microbial Resource Centre Network (Alexandre Marino, Diego Rocha, Sidnei de Souza, Dora Ann Lange Canhos, Vanderlei Perez Canhos - Brazil)

Session 8B: Microbial Resource Centers: Quality Management Issues


• 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. Simões, 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 Durães Sette, Fabiana Fantinatti Garboggini, Milena Binatti Ferreira, Paulo Menezes de Holanda Barros, Valeria Maia de Oliveira - Brazil)

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)
• DNA Barcoding of Visva-Bharati Culture Collection of Algae (VBCCA), WDCM931 (Jnanendra Rath, Sikha Mandal, Samit Ray - )
• Establishment of the staphylococcal bacteriophage collection characterized by a reticulate classification system in the Czech Collection of Microorganisms (CCM) (Roman Pantucek, Jana Kahankova, Pavel Benda, Ivo Sedlacek, Pavla Holochova, Vladislava Ruzickova, Lucie Kuntova, Pavel Svec, Ivana Nepejchalova, Jiri Doskar - Czech Republic)
• Technical Activities Focused On Reorganization of Federal Culture Collection of Pathogen Microorganisms (Andrey M. Baranov, Igor A. Dunaytsev, Ivan A. Dyatlov - Russia)

Session 8D: Microbial Resource Centers: Policy Issues and Networking


• Building a National BRC – the Case MICCO in Finland (Pekka Oivanen - Finland)
• IBRC, a New Look at a Virgin Ecosystem (Heidar Shakarami, Mohamad Ali Amoozegar, Abolhassan Shahzedeh - Iran)
• Setting up of a Multicomponent Biological Resource Center for Agroecology at INRA (Dijon, France) (Steinberg Christian, Delaitre Catherine, Duc Gérard, Gianiniazzi-Pearson Vivienne, Héraud Cécile, Lemanceau Philippe, Montfort Valérie, 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, Nélida 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)

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

• e-Infrastructure for innovation in life sciences and biotechnology (UE)
• 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 )

• 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)

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

• The OECD concept of repositories and providers of high quality biological materials and information to underpin biotechnology (Iain Gillespie, OECD)
• 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)
• Outreach and Linkages (Kurt Zatloukal, BBMRI Secretariat)

• Governance model of GBRCN (Dagmar Fritze, GBRCN Secretariat)
• The Brazilian Biological Resource Centers networking model (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)

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)
• Application of MALDI-TOF MS for yeast taxonomy (H. Kawasaki, NBRC, Japan)
• Molecular caracterization of Sporothrix clinical isolates involved in sporotrichosis epidemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira, Fiocruz, Brazil)
• Phenotype MicroArrays - a platform for phenotypic characterization of cells and species description (Stacey O. Montgomery, Biolog Inc, USA)

13 B: Legal and safety issues (Malcom Dando, Bradford University, UK)


• The WHO Programme on Global Biosafety and Biosecurity (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 Kämpfer, Head of Commitee for Biological Agents, Germany)
• Global Awareness-Raising and Education for Biosafety and Biosecurity: A Status Report (Malcolm Dando, Bradford University, UK)

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 collections are addressing quality management: CBMAI (Brazil), BCCM (Belgium), DSMZ (Germany), VKM (Russia), IMCAS(China) and BCRC/FIRDI (Taiwan)

13 D: Intellectual property and innovation in biotechnology (Zea Mayerhoff, INPI, Brazil)


• 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)

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)
• Australia’s collections (Lindsay Sly, University of Queensland, Australia)
• The European story, from CABRI to EMbaRC
• Efforts in South America (Graciela Davel, FELACC)
• Networking Culture Collections in USA (Kevin Mc Cluskey, FGSC, USA)

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)

14 C: Information management and data analysis systems in culture collections: why we need them? (Vincent Robert, CBS, Netherlands)


• Managing Microbes e-learning tool (CABI)
• Harnessing new technologies (Nelson Lima, Portugal)
• The EMbaRC Transnational Access Programme (Philippe Desmeth, Belgium)
• SICol-M and SICol-Net: management and dynamic integration of microbial data (Sidnei de Souza, CRIA, Brazil)

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

• Microbial Taxonomy and Phylogeny: Extending from rRNAs to Genomes (Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

SATURDAY 02/10/10:

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