News

Call under the Transnational Access programme of IS_MIRRI21
The first call under the Transnational Access programme of IS_MIRRI21 will soon be launched on 25 January 2021.

IS_MIRRI21 at the International Microorganism Day
IS_MIRRI21 will be represented by Prof Nelson Lima at 14:20 CEST with an introduction to the project and a video showing the positive and negative effects of these important tiny organisms.

IS_MIRRI21 launches its newsletter
IS_MIRRI21 is a project funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme to implement and ensure the sustainability of MIRRI.

IS_MIRRI21 Executive Director Call
The Call to hire the IS_MIRRI21 “Executive Director” will be officially open on the 2nd July, 2020, for 15 business days

MicroBioSpain: the on-line collection of Spanish microorganisms
The meeting will exclusively present the online application that includes the strains from the REDESMI collections.

MIRRI is hiring!
Two positions at the Spanish Type Culture Collection – University of Valencia (CECT-UV) are opened according to the hiring procedures of the University of Valencia. Both contracts will be bounded to the project IS_MIRRI21, funded by Horizon 2020 to implement the Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure.

VIII Symposium WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Center for Microorganisms
David R. Arahal and Teresa Lucena Reyes (CECT), have been invited to the GCM 2.0 type strain sequencing project workshop that will take place from November 21 to 30, 2018 in Beijing, China.

Conservation and Management of Microbial Resources
The contents presented correspond to the REDESMI Training Day that took place on October 2, 2019 at the Science Park of the University of Valencia.

13ª RedBAL Meeting
One more year the Network of Lactic Bacteria (RedBAL) holds its annual meeting, on June 17 and 18, at the Center for Biological Research of the CSIC (Madrid).

38º ECCO 2019
The 38th annual meeting of the European Organization of Crop Collections (ECCO) is held from 12-14 June in Turin with the motto “Microorganisms as tools to win the current societal challenges and support European strategies in bioeconomy”.

III Meeting of MicroBioSpain Network of Excellence
The III Meeting of the MicroBioSpain Network of Excellence will be held on April 8 and 9 at the Spanish Algae Bank (BEA) (Telde, Gran Canaria) organized by the BEA and the Spanish Type Culture Collection (CECT).

REDESMI incorporates two collections
REDESMI continues to grow in number of collections and biodiversity. This year has begun with two new additions: DAIRYSAFE PHAGES, the first bacteriophage virus collection, and MAESE, the second microalgae collection.