CONGRESS PROGRAMME

In the tradition of previous Congresses, and building on the outstanding success of ICCC-8 in the Netherlands, ICCC-9 will provide an opportunity for formal and informal interaction through a mix of Plenary Lectures, Symposia, Workshops, Round Table discussions, and social events. Keynote speakers will contribute thought-provoking and challenging ideas about the future role of culture collections as we enter the post-genomics era and the new millennium, as well as sharing their experiences in topical areas. One highlight of the Congress will be the presentation of the WFCC Skerman Award Lecture by a young microbiologist selected for an outstanding contribution to microbial systematics research.

The General Assembly of the WFCC will be held during the Congress as well as meetings of the WFCC Executive Board and committees. These meetings provide an opportunity for direct input to the policies and future programmes of the WFCC.

The Congress proceedings will be published from oral and poster presentations.

Official Opening
Sunday 23 July 2000, 4 pm

Scientific Programme
23-27 July 2000

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Biological resource centres and biotechnology in the post-genomics era
Keynote speaker: Dr Keith Bostian, Iconix Pharmaceuticals, USA

PLENARY SYMPOSIA

• Emerging opportunities for culture collections
• Globalisation of biological resources and bioinformatics
• Microbial diversity and taxonomy
• Industrial and environmental biotechnology
• Managing the regulatory environment
• Functional genomics and recombinant gene technology (to be confirmed)

CURRENT INVITED SPEAKERS

Microbial biodiversity - the untapped frontier Jim Staley, University of Washington, USA Bioprospecting Eric Mathur, Diversa Corporation, USA Bioinformatics, genomics and genetic resources John Mattick, Institute Molecular Biosciences, Australia [To be confirmed] Molecular strategies to isolate the uncultured microorganisms Phil Hugenholtz, University of Queensland, Australia Global Biological Information Facility (GBIF) Ebbe Nielsen, CSIRO Australia Towards a global virtual biological resource centre Vanderlei Canhos, CCT, Brazil Systems interoperability and access to global species databases Cornelia Buchen-Osmond, Australian National University Linking microbial genetic resources in culture collections with nucleic acid sequences Hideaki Sugawara, World Data Centre for Microorganisms, Japan CBD Global Taxonomic Initiative Peter Bridgewater, UNESCO, Paris [To be confirmed] Challenging the species concept in bacteria Erko Stackebrandt, DSMZ, Germany Novel enzymes from extremophiles Bharat Patel, Griffith University, Australia Molecular microbial ecology of waste water treatment processes Linda Blackall, University of Queensland, Australia The MR4 as a model for biological resource centres in the regulatory environment. Ray Cypess, ATCC, USA Exchanging cultures in the 'select agent' era Gina Koenig, Roche Molecular Systems, USA Molecular microbiology for the new millennium Deborah Dodge, PE Biosystems, USA Environmental Bioremediation (Tentative title) Dietmar Pieper, GBF, Germany

ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• Bioprospecting for bioactive compounds and novel products
• Microbial diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny
• Extremophiles
• Tropical biodiversity
• Industrial fermentation
• Biotechnology
• Indigenous fermented foods
• Cell culture systems
• Recombinant gene technology
• Functional genomics
• Medical and veterinary microbiology
• Agriculture and plant pathology
• Environmental microbiology and ecology
• Bioinformatic databases and networks
• Molecular identification methods
• Quality management and accreditation
• Preservation of cultures and genetic material
• Bioremediation
• Prebiotic and probiotic cultures
• Culture collections and services
• Other suggested topic

ROUND TABLE TOPICS

• Quality standards in culture collections
• Risk management in culture collections
• Economic sustainability of culture collections
• Managing intellectual property in culture collections
• Capacity building in developing countries
• IBOY - International Biodiversity Observation Year

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