WFCC Activities

2004	October 10-15　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 NEW! ICCC-10 scored a great success: 479 partiticpants; 40 countries/UNESCO/OECD; 84 lectures/285 posters;
2004	October 10-15 Tenth International Congress for Culture Collections (ICCC-10) International Congress Center (Epochal Tsukuba) Tsukuba, Japan ICCC-10 Secretariat Environmental Biology Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies Email: iccc10@nies.go.jp
2004	May 3-7, 2004 The WFCC "Training Course 'Management of Culture Collections of Microorganisms" Rabat, Morocco
2003	December 1-5, 2003 13th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes(ISBA'13) Melbourne, AUSTRALIA http://www.conferencestrategy.com.au/isba/main_announcement_isba.pdf Registration form December 6-7, 2003 Commercial Use of Microbial Diversity WFCC Workshop in Melbourne, Australia
2003	October 27-28, 2003 The GBIF/WFCC Workshop (PDF) "Towards a Global Infrastructure for Microbial Information" Brussels
2003	June 29- July 3, 2003 1st FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Slovenia http://www.fems-microbiology.org/congress2003.htm WFCC Activities a Meeting for all WFCC members (1st of July, late afternoon) a WFCC Board Meeting (1st of July, evening) a Round Table "Culture Collections and the User Community"
2000	ICCC-IX, Brisbane, Australia. ICCC-IX (Ninth International Congress for Culture Collections) in Brisbane, July 23-28, 2000
1999	World Data Centre for Microorganisms Symposium Microbial Resources Centers in the 21st century: New Paradigms Kudankaikan, Tokyo, Japan February 16th, 1999
1998	The Halifax workshop: THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF MICROBIAL GENETIC RESOURCES
1996	ICCC-VIII, Veldhoven, The Netherlands Theme: Culture Collections to improve the quality of life Executive Board Meeting & General Assembly of WFCC
1994	Satellite-Meeting at IUMS-Congress in Prague, Czech Republic. Theme: The Biodiversity Convention and its Implications on Culture Collections. Executive Board Meeting & Committee Meetings of WFCC
1992	Training Course, Beijing, China. Theme: The Use of Computers in Microbiology
	Training Course, Beijing, China. Theme: Culture Collections and Animal Cell Technology
	ICCC-VII, Beijing, China. Theme: Biodiversity and the Role of Culture Collections. Executive Board Meeting & General Assembly of WFCC
1990	Satellite-Meeting at IUMS Congress Bacteriology & Mycology, Osaka, Japan. Theme: The Kral Collection: 100 Years of Culture Collections. Executive Board Meeting & Committee Meetings of WFCC
1988	Workshop at University of Maryland. Theme: Computers in Culture Collections
	Workshop at University of Maryland. Theme: Preservation of Microorganisms
	ICCC-VI, Maryland, USA. Theme: The Microbial Gene Pool. Executive Board Meeting & General Assembly of WFCC
1986	Satellite-Meeting at IUMS Congress Microbe '86, Manchester, England. Executive Board Meeting and Committee Meetings of WFCC
1984	Training Course at MIRCEN, Bangkok, Thailand. Theme: Yeasts: Their Identification, Preservation and Use in Biotechnology
1984	ICCC-V, Bangkok, Thailand. Theme: International Resources for Biotechnology. Executive Board Meeting & General Assembly of WFCC
1981	Training Course, Brno, Czechoslovakia. Theme: Running and Management of Culture Collections
1981	ICCC-IV, Brno, Czechoslovakia. Executive Board Meeting & General Assembly of WFCC
1980	Training Course at MIRCEN, Cairo, Egypt. Theme: Conservation of Microbial Cultures and Development of Culture Collections
1976	ICCC-III, Bombay, India. Executive Board Meeting & General Assembly of WFCC
1973	ICCC-II, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Executive Board Meeting & General Assembly of WFCC
1968	The First International Conference of Culture Collections (ICCC), Tokyo, Japan. Theme: Culture Collections of Microorganisms. Executive Board Meeting & General Assembly of WFCC