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: Chris Bowler “Exploring the Tara Oceans multiverse”
• 15:00-16:30      Session 1: Biodiversity, Systematics & Phylogenomics in the OMICs era & Session 2: New approaches in Genomics and Genome-Scale Insights
  -15:00-15:15      Presentation 1
  -15:15-15:30      Presentation 2
  -15:30-15:45      Presentation 3
  -15:45-16:00      Presentation 4
  -16:00-16:15      Presentation 5
  -16:15-16:30      Presentation 6
• 16:30-17:00      Posters Session & Coffee Break
• 17:00-19:00      Session 3: Microbiomes: Maintenance, Function, and Applications
  -17:00-17:15      Presentation 7
  -17:15-17:30      Presentation 8
  -17:30-17:45      Presentation 9
  -18:00-18:15      Presentation 10
  -18:15-18:30      Presentation 11
  -18:30-18:45      Presentation 12
  -18:45-19:00      Presentation 13
• 19:00-21:30      Welcome reception

Tuesday, 15^th September

• 09:00-09:45      Keynote Lecture: Pedro Leão “Discovery of unique chemistry and enzymology from the LEGE-CC cyanobacteria”
• 09:45-11:00      Session 4: Valorization of cultures collections and strains: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Ecological applications
  -09:45-10:00      Presentation 14
  -10:00-10:15      Presentation 15
  -10:15-10:30      Presentation 16
  -10:30-10:45      Presentation 17
  -10:45-11:00      Presentation 18
• 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: Tanja Kostic “Microbiome Biobanking: Navigating Complexity – Insights from the MICROBE Journey”
• 09:45-11:00     Session 5: Culture collection managements and maintenance / Session 6: Ethical and legal challenges of collection management
  -09:45-10:00    Presentation 19
  -10:00-10:15    Presentation 20
  -10:15-10:30    Presentation 21
  -10:30-10:45    Presentation 22
  -10:45-11:00    Presentation 23

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
  -11:30-12:00   Ana Portugal Melo: MIRRI-ERIC’s Roadmap for FAIR Microbial Resources
  -12:00-12:15    Presentation 25
  -12:15-12:30    Presentation 26
  -12:30-12:45    Presentation 27
• 12:45-13:00      Closing ECCO XLIV
• 13:00-14:00      Lunch

Workshops

• 14:00-15:30      Workshop: Beyond Traditional Collections: Enabling Sustainable Microbiome Biobanking Services
  Davide Faggionato & Amber Scholz (DSMZ), Tanja Kostic (AIT) – with support of MICROBE consortium members
• 15:30-16:00      Coffee Break
• 16:00-17:30      Workshop: From natural-language questions to strain shortlists: co-designing Metis with the culture-collection community
  Marco Anteghini (LifeGlimmer) & Lornz Reimer (DSMZ) – with support of the BIOINDUSTRY 4.0 consortium members