WORLD FEDERATION FOR CULTURE COLLECTIONS

Number 40

February 2005

An Interdisciplinary Commission of the International Union of Biological Sciences
and the International Union of Microbiological Societies

IN THIS ISSUE
Introducing the New President 1
The 10th International Congress for Culture Collections(ICCC-10)
(10-15 October,2004)Tsukuba,Japan         		 5
[by Prof.Makoto M.Watanabe]
Milestone in Japanese Culture Collections           9
[by Prof.Kazuo Komagata]
WFCC Patent & Industrial Property Committee Summary report of activities
2000-2004		 21
[by Dr.Phillippe Desmeth]
WFCC Committee on Postal,Quarantine and Sagety Regulations Report 2000-2004 26
[by Dr Christine Rohde]
New Transport Regulations for Infectious Substances as of January 2005 28
[by Dr Christine Rohde]
WFCC Resolutions and a perspective of the future 32
[by Dr.David Sumith]
WFCC Work Programs 38
Reports from Culture Collections and New Intiatives
Biodiscovery to Improve Human and Environmental Health as the Institute for Sustainability,Health and Regional Engagement 44
[by Dr lpek Kurtböke]
The New Zealand Reference Culture Collection,Medical Section 49
[by Patricia F.M.Short]
ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF FUNGAL CULTURE COLLECTION FOR FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED MYCOLOGICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ARMENIA 51
[by Prof.Suzanna M.Badalyan]
EX-SOVIET DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ELIAVA INSTITUTE OF BACTERIOPHAGE,MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY
A WORLD PREMIER INSTITUTE IN BACTERIOPHAGE RESEARCH 		56
[by Dr.Nina Chanishvili]
WFCC executive board / WFCC committees
Publications 66