Program

Monday, 14^th September

• 12:00-14:00      Registration and poster mounting
• 14:00-14:15      Opening Ceremony

Theme I – Research and Development

• 14:15-15:00      Keynote Lecture 1
• 15:00-16:30      Session 1: Biodiversity, Systematics & Phylogenomics in the OMICs era
• 16:30-17:00      Posters Session & Coffee Break
• 17:00-19:00      Session 2: New approaches in Genomics and Genome-Scale Insights
• 19:00-21:30      Welcome reception

Tuesday, 15^th September

• 09:00-09:45      Keynote Lecture 2
• 09:45-11:00      Session 3: Microbiomes: Maintenance, Function, and Applications / Session 4: Valorization of cultures collections and strains: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Ecological applications
• 11:00-11:30      Posters Session & Coffee Break
• 11:30-13:00      ECCO XLIV Annual General Meeting (Members only)
• 13:00-14:30      Lunch
• 14:30-22:30      Social Event & Dinner (included in Registration Fee)

Wednesday, 16^th September

Theme II – Collection Management & Regulatory Challenges

• 09:00-09:45     Keynote Lecture 3
• 09:45-11:00     Session 5: Culture collection managements and maintenance / Session 6: Ethical and legal challenges of collection management

Theme III – Community, Networks & Databases

• 11:00-11:30      Posters Session & Coffee Break
• 11:30-12:45      Session 7: Projects, Networks and databases / Session 8: Open Science, Data Sharing & Science Communication
• 12:45-13:00      Closing ECCO XLIV
• 13:00-14:00      Lunch

Workshops

• 14:00-15:30      Workshop 1
• 15:30-16:00      Coffee Break
• 16:00-17:30      Workshop 2