The 8th WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM) Symposium GCM 2.0 Type Strain Sequencing Project Workshop

November 21th 2018
Location：Yunhai Ballroom, 3 Floor, Grand Skylight Catic Hotel Beijing No. 18 Beichen East Road Chaoyang Beijing 100101, P.R.China
Session 1: Welcome Remarks, Chaired by Prof. Juncai Ma
9:00-9:20	Welcome remarks Prof. Shuang-Jiang Liu Prof. Philippe Desmeth
Session 2: Keynote Speech, Chaired by Prof. Shuang-Jiang Liu
9:20-9:45	Keynote speech: Impact of large-scale genomics on microbial systematics Hans-Peter. Klenk
9:45-10:10	Keynote speech: Plant Pathogenic Fungi in the GCM type strain project Pedro W. Crous
10:10-10:35	Keynote Speech: WDCM updates and GCM 2.0 type strain sequencing project Juncai Ma
10:35-10:50	Group Photos and Coffee break
Session 3: Keynote Speech, Chaired by Prof. Philippe Desmeth
10:50-11:15	Keynote speech: Bergey’s Manual - keeping up in a rapidly changing field Fred A. Rainey
11:15-11:40	Keynote Speech: Roles and quality management of culture collection in genomic era Ken-ichiro Suzuki
11:40-12:05	Keynote Speech: Microbial Resource Centers (MRCs) in the age of metagenomics Hideaki Sugawara
12:00-14:00	Lunch buffet at Caffee Elysee, 1 Floor, Grand Skylight Catic Hotel Beijing
Session 4: Keynote Speech, Chaired by Prof. Pedro W. Crous
13:30-13:55	Keynote Speech: Exploiting yeast diversity for novel industrial applications G S Prasad
13:55-14:20	Keynote Speech: Current and future contributions of microbial culture collections to high-throughput microbiome research Justin Shaffer
Session 5: Culture collection activities Chaired by Fred A. Rainey
14:20-15:30	ATCC: ATCC's Contribution to GCM 2.0: A Progress Report Marco Riojas BCC：Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC) and its roles in the microbial research frontier in Thailand Somsak Likhitrattanapisal BCRC：Bioresources, genome sequencing project and service in BCRC Sung-Yuan Hsieh CBS：Genomes, between excitement and challenge Vincent Robert CECT： Taxogenomics of prokaryotes at CECT. David Ruiz Arahal CGMCC：Current activities of type strain researches in CGMCC Yuguang Zhou CRBIP：The culture collections of the CRBIP and its services Mery Pina, Dominique Clermont
15:30-15:50	Coffee break
Session 5: Culture collection activities Chaired by G S Prasad
15:50-17:30	ICMP： ICMP culture collection: Informatics and Genomics Bevan Weir JCM： On the launch of the JCM-WDCM Joint Genome Sequencing Project Takashi Itoh KCTC： Current status of KCTC: Bioresources and Research Song-Gun Kim NBRC： NBRC genome sequencing projects for 20 years and current services using genome sequence as BRC Hiroko Kawasaki NCAIM：Recent research at NCAIM, Hungary Denes Dlauchy NCTC：National Collection of Type Cultures and the NCTC3000 project Sarah Alexander PCU： Identification and Preservation of Bacteria Isolated from Thai Bioresources Nattakorn Kuncharoen TISTR：New TISTR Culture Collection and its genomic sequencing activities Susakul Palakawong Na Ayudthaya VKM：All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms (VKM): Current State-of-Art, Plans and Expectations Alexey Leontievsky Current status and activities of the Microbial culture collection of Mongolia Enkh-Amgalan Jigjiddorj
18:00-20:00	Dinner at Taichi Chinese Restaurant, 2 Floor, Grand Skylight Catic Hotel Beijing

November 22th 2018
Session 6: Roadmap of the GCM 2.0 Chaired by Hans-Peter. Klenk
9:00-9:20	Keynote Presentation: Benefits, organization and roadmap of GCM 2.0 Linhuan Wu
9:20-9:40	Keynote Presentation : Comparative fungal genomics, how to make the most out of the WDCM type strain project Teun Boekhout
9:40-10:40	Discussion
10:40-11:00	Coffee break
Session 7: CBD，IP & legal issue Chaired by Philippe Desmeth
11:00-11:20	Keynote Presentation: Open Science, Open Data & Nagoya Protocol. Legal certainty in uncertain times Philippe Desmeth
11:20-12:00	Discussion
12:00-14:00	Lunch buffet at Caffee Elysee, 1 Floor, Grand Skylight Catic Hotel Beijing
Session 8: SOPs Chaired by Ken-ichiro Suzuki
14:00-14:10	Presentation: Strain re-culture & DNA extraction Cai Man
14:10-14:20	Presentation: Microbial sample Preparation and Genome Sequencing at BGI Yile Chen
14:20-15:20	Discussion
15:20-15:50	Coffee break
Session 9：Data annotation, data publication and data platform Chaired by Hideaki Sugawara
15:50-16:10	Keynote Presentation: DNA Data Bank of Japan and its annotation pipeline for microbes: DFAST Yasukazu Nakamura
16:10-16:30	Presentation: Data quality control, analysis pipelines and data platform Wenyu Shi
16:40-17:20	Discussion
17:20-17:30	Closing remarks
18:00-20:00	Dinner at Meizhoudongpo Chinese Restaurant

Lecture of WDCM 8

Participants:

1. Philippe Desmeth, Belgian Science Policy Office, Belgium
2. G S Prasad, University of Hyderabad, India
3. Fred A. Rainey，University of Alaska AnchorageI, USA
4. Hans-Peter. Klenk, Newcastle University, Australia
5. Pedro W. Crous, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Netherlands
6. Hideaki Sugawara，National institute of Genetics, Japan
7. Ken-ichiro Suzuki, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
8. Justin Shaffer, University of California at San Diego, USA
9. Manzour Hazbón, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), USA
10. Riojas Marco, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), USA
11. Sung-Yuan Hsieh, Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, Chinese Taipei
12. Wan-Rou Lin, Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, Chinese Taipei
13. Vincent Robert, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Center, Netherland
14. Teun Boekhout, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Center, Netherland
15. David Ruiz Arahal, Spanish Type Culture Collection (CECT), University of Valencia, Spain
16. Teresa Lucena Reyes, Spanish Type Culture Collection (CECT), University of Valencia, Spain
17. Mery Pina, Biological Resource Center of the Pasteur Institute (CRBIP), France
18. Dominique Clermont, Biological Resource Center of the Pasteur Institute (CRBIP), France
19. Bevan Weir, ICMP, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, New Zealand
20. Christopher Smith, ICMP, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, New Zealand
21. Yasukazu Nakamura, National institute of Genetics, Japan
22. Yasuhiro Tanizawa, National institute of Genetics, Japan
23. Takashi Itoh, Japan Collection of Microorganism, RIKEN BRC, Japan
24. Hiroko Kawasaki, Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan
25. Koji Mori, Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan
26. Takuma Terao, Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan
27. MIzuki Watanabe, Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan
28. Kohei Hidaka, Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan
29. Song-Gun Kim, Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC), Korea
30. Jung-Sook Lee, Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC), Korea
31. Denes Dlauchy, National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms(NCAIM), Szent István University, Faculty of Food Science, Hungary
32. Sarah Alexander, NCTC ,Public Health England, UK
33. Mohammed-Abbas Fazal, NCTC ,Public Health England, UK
34. Somsak Likhitrattanapisal, National Science and Technology Development Agency (BIOTEC), Thailand
35. Nattakorn Kuncharoen, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University (PCU), Thailand
36. Susakul Palakawong Na Ayudthaya, Biodiversity Research Centre (BRC), Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) , Thailand
37. Alexey Leontievsky, Pushchino Research Center of the Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
38. Enkh-Amgalan Jigjiddorj, Institute of General and Experimental Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolia
39. Marjangul Nuramkhan, Institute of General and Experimental Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolia
40. Carla Santos, Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, Portugal
41. Shuang-Jiang Liu, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
42. Lei Cai, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
43. Yuguang Zhou, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
44. Cai Man, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
45. Juncai Ma, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
46. Linhuan Wu, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
47. Qinglan Sun, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
48. Wenyu Shi, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
49. Yile Chen, BGI, China
50. Jinqun Huang，BGI, China
51. Bangzhuo Tong, BGI, China