What's New!
- Mar 9, 2010 WFCC/WDCM will be unavailable due to system maintenance; Mar 14 9:00a.m.-9:30p.m. (JST)
- Feb 16, 2010 The WFCC Guidelines is revised and available here: These Guidelines are prepared by the WFCC to provide a framework for the establishment, operation and long-term support of microbiological and cell resource centres as a fundamental part of the scientific infrastructure.
- Jan 28, 2010 WFCC Newsletter No.47 (Jan. 2010) was uploaded.
- Nov 19, 2009 WFCC/WDCM was unavailable due to a planned power outage; Nov 27 5:00p.m.-Nov 30 11:00a.m. (JST)
- Aug 17, 2009 WFCC Newsletter No.46 (Aug. 2009) was uploaded.
- Jul 23, 2009 WDCM_Reference Strain Catalogue Version 2 was uploaded.
- Jul 23, 2009 Skerman Award Announcement 2009 was uploaded.
- May 28, 2009 12th International Conference on Culture Collections (ICCC12) meets in Brazil in 2010!
- Feb 12, 2009 WFCC Newsletter No.45 (Jan. 2009) was uploaded.
- Sep 5, 2008 WFCC/WDCM will be stopped for maintenance from 16:30 to 18:00 on Sep 5, 2008.
- Sep 3, 2008 WFCC/WDCM will be stopped for maintenance from 8:30 to 12:00 on Sep 4, 2008.
- Sep 3, 2008 WFCC/WDCM has stopped for trouble from 15:00 to 18:00 on Sep 3, 2008.
- Aug 29, 2008 WFCC/WDCM will be stopped for maintenance from 9:00 to 17:00 on Sep 1, 2008.
- Jun 16, 2008 A new link to nearly 400 phyologeny packages is set.
- Jan 18, 2008 World Phytophthora Collection EMERGENCY: Please donate a used 10K Taylor Warton LN Dewar
- Nov 5, 2007 Culture collections are plotted on the Google Earth.
- Oct 12, 2007 The link to Mycobank was created.
- Oct 12, 2007 The link to STRAINFO.net was created.
- Oct 5, 2007 The homepage was renewed.
- Oct 7, 2007 11th International Congress on Culture Collections (ICCC-11) 7-11 , GOSLAR, GERMANY
- Jun 25, 2007 OECD Best Practice Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres

- Oct 12, 2005 Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (2006/3/19-22)

- Nov 7, 2005)The Biology of Vibrios: Biodiveristy, Genomics, Disease/Epidemiology, Ecology, and Applications, Ghent, Belgium (2005/11/07-08)
- Sep 25, 2005 Australian Society for Microbiology 2005 (2005/09/25-29)
- Sep.20, 2005 VI International Conference on Environmental Pollution (2005/09/20-25)

- Sep 20, 2005 II International Conference on Microbial Diversity: current situation, conservation strategy and biotechnological potentialities (2005/09/20-25)

- Aug 25, 2005 Congress of PERMI and ACLAB-3 (2005/08/25-27)
- Jun 15, 2005 EBRCN transport paper WP5 Revision 15Jun05.doc

- April 26, 2005 Explanation to the new IATA and ICAO documents

- April 22, 2005 IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations: the amendments and corrections to the 46th Edition, effective from 1 January 2005.

- April 22, 2005 ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization): Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Good by Air - Addendum to 2005-2006 Edition -

- Nov 12, 2004 A Committee Report: Committee on Postal, Quarantine and Safety Regulations: Activities, Developments and Concerns (edited by Christine Rohde, DSMZ)

- Oct 15, 2004)ICCC-10 scored a great success.

- Oct 08, 2004 EBRCN Resource Legislation.

- June 11, 2004 New WFCC board members (after ICCC-10) are elected.

- May 20, 2004 Home Pages of Culture Collections in the world
- May 20, 2004 Statistics on Culture Collections in the world
- May 3, 2004 WFCC/USFCC/CCMM/BCCM Training Course, Rabat (Morocco), May 3-7, 2004

- April 20, 2004 Election of the WFCC board (postal ballot by May 31st, 2004)

- Mar 15, 2004 JOB announcement: a full-time postdoctoral research position

- Feb 27, 2004 JOB announcement: a full-time postdoctoral research position

- Jan 20, 2004 Newsletter 38
(members only)
- Dec 15, 2003) Call for applications for the Skerman Award Price (by March 1st, 2004, Next call for application will be announced for ICCC-11 in Germany, probably 2006-2007)

- Dec 5, 2003) A CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST THE 11th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CULTURE COLLECTIONS (2008)

- Oct 27, 2003 GBIF/WFCC/SPO Expert Workshop Brussels, Oct 27-28, 2003

- July 31, 2003) Newsletter 37
(members only)
- (July 8, 2003) The WFCC is granted Observer status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Sub-Committee of experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

- June 5, 2003 Press Release. May 26, 2003

- April 16, 2003) Newsletter 36

- January 23, 2003 Mid-term report on WFCC, (Brisbane, July 2000-October 2002)
