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Introductory workshop to the Nagoya Protocol
Or maybe you are still not sure if it is relevant to you?
If you are doing research with biological material in the European Union (excluding human DNA), you need to understand the basics of the Nagoya Protocol!
Together with the German Nagoya Protocol HuB (GNP-HuB), EVA GLOBAL will be co-hosting an interactive online workshop for “newbies” (beginners) to the Nagoya Protocol. You’ll learn about the Nagoya Protocol and its real-world implications for you as a researcher.
During the workshop, you will go step by step through what researchers need to do. You will hear about the user checks that have already started in the EU, Nagoya requirements from journals, and tools and tips already available, with plenty of time for you to get involved and ask questions.
This event will take place on Tuesday, April 27th from 09:00 to 11:30 CET!
You can register HERE using our online registration form.
Call for a special issue on "Microbiota Exploitation" in the Food journal
Microbiota Exploitation for the Development of Innovative and High Added-value Fermented Food
To be published in the journal
Foods (ISSN 2304-8158) IF 4.092
Guest Editors: Dr. Luciana De Vero, Prof. Dr Andrea Pulvirenti, Prof. Dr.Ilaria Mannazzu
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2021.
Fermentation of dairy products, vegetables, cereals, meat, and fish has emerged in human history, almost concomitantly across the different continents, as a strategy for the preservation of raw materials and the production of food and beverages for times of shortage. Since then, humankind has traditionally and empirically utilized fermentation not only for preservation purposes but also for the improvement of the organoleptic properties, texture, digestibility, palatability, and safety of all sorts of food matrices. This has led to the production of a myriad of fermented products that are the result of different cultural preferences and traditions and cover about thirty percent of the human diet, regardless of geographic area and lifestyle.
Nowadays fermentation is widely employed also to enrich food and beverages with beneficial viable microorganisms and/or their metabolites in order to positively impact on human health. This result can be achieved either through the exploitation of the wild microbiota naturally associated to raw materials or as the result of the inoculation of selected starters, and requires the characterization, preservation, management and circulation of microbial diversity.
Keeping into consideration the key words “food microbiota” and “fermentation”, this Special Issue aims to collect original research papers, review articles, and short communications addressing novel and relevant findings on the applications of lactic acid bacteria, acetic acid bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi isolated from food matrices or preserved in culture collections. Of particular interest will be contributions regarding:
- the characterization, exploitation and preservation of beneficial microbiota for fermented local-food production;
- the development of high added-value and novel fermented products;
- the reduction of chemical preservatives in food through the production of natural antimicrobials of microbial origin;
- the production of bioactive compounds with health promoting activity.
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form.
Corso su Accreditamento UNI ISO 20387:2019
i requisiti della norma e i regolamenti Accredia
Durata: 12 ore (3 sessioni di 4 ore)
Date: 21, 28 aprile e 5 maggio 2021
Corso ONLINE
CONTENUTI
Saranno introdotti i principi generali che contraddistinguono un sistema di gestione per la qualità, discussi i requisiti specifici previsti dalla norma UNI ISO 20387:2019 e i regolamenti Accredia, al fine di poter ottenere l’accreditamento della biobanca. L’obiettivo del corso sarà perseguito tramite lezioni frontali fornendo inoltre approfondimenti specifici e tecnici: ciò permetterà lo sviluppo di strumenti operativi direttamente applicabili alle realtà delle singole biobanche per intraprendere il percorso di progettazione e implementazione di un sistema qualità conforme alla norma e ai requisiti per l’accreditamento. Previsto esame finale e rilascio di attestato di superamento prova di apprendimento.
COSTO: € 390 + IVA a partecipante
Per ogni ulteriore partecipante della stessa azienda è previsto uno sconto del 10%
Per informazioni: corso-UNIISO20387-Biobanche_ed2_ONLINE.pdf
BMC2021 Beneficial Microbes Conference
The 8th Beneficial Microbes Conference
22-24 March 2021.
For information see: https://www.beneficialmicrobes2021.org/
World Microbe Forum 2021
ASM and FEMS will bring together two of the biggest meetings in the microbial sciences, ASM Microbe 2021 and FEMS2021, under one digital platform to further science and help answer some of the most important questions impacting humankind today.
Italian scientific societies Italian Society for Virology (SIV-ISV), Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnologies (SIMGBM), Italian Society of Agro-Food and Microbial Biotechnologies (SIMTREA), Italian Association for Clinical Microbiologists (AMCLI) and Italian Society of Microbiology (SIM), as well as the European Culture Collections’ Organisation (ECCO), which are members of FEMS, are also involved in this event.
For information: https://www.worldmicrobeforum.org/
IS_MIRRI21 Newsletters
IS_MIRRI21 challenges the users to communicate with it to continue strengthening the MIRRI community as never before and visit its website and social media to stay updated on IS_MIRRI21’s activities.
See all IS_MIRRI21 Newsletters here.
Up to today, two issues have been delivered and you can reach them singularly:
First Newsletter #1
Second Newsletter #2
IS_MIRRI21 Transnational access (TNA) Call opens
The first call for proposals from the IS_MIRRI21 Transnational access (TNA) programme opened on the 25th of January 2021
The first call under the Transnational Access programme of IS_MIRRI21 has been launched on January 25, 2021.
This call for proposals invites users from research organisations and companies (in the fields of biotechnology, agro-food, pharmaceuticals, environment, etc.) to apply for funded access to one or several of the 14 IS_MIRRI21 partners facilities across Europe.
The TNA offers on-site and remote access to a wide variety of microbial resources and facilities to conduct scientific studies.
The TNA online portal is now available with full details on the eligibility, access providers, submission and reporting rules and guides, and more.
Applicants are required to contact the access officer (tna@mirri.org) for pre-feasibility evaluation of their projects prior to the submission of the proposal.
The list of services, products and facilities as well as the workflows can be found on the TNA Catalogue.
For more information, visit the TNA PORTAL at: https://ismirri21.mirri.org/project-platforms/tna/.
Path Forward for Naming the Uncultivated
Two workshops to create awareness of progress being made towards developing a solution for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria.
A new, alternative code for naming uncultivated organisms, the “Un-Code”, is currently in development.
These virtual workshops will provide background, a roundtable panel discussion, and a forum for community input.
Workshop 1
Practical barriers to naming uncultivated microorganisms
February 4, 2021, 15:00 GMT
Workshop 2
Path forward to the implementation and adoption of the Un-Code
February 11, 2021, 15:00 GMT
Download the flyer from https://apply.hub.ki/uncode2021/documents/uncultivated.pdf.
More information available at: https://apply.hub.ki/uncode2021/.
Contact the Organizing Committee at uncode2021@gmail.com.
Presentazione FoodMicrobionet / ShinyFoodMicrobionet
Giovedì 12 Novembre 2020
Collegarsi all’indirizzo all’indirizzo https://www.gotomeet.me/233/enovfood.
Tale presentazione si colloca nell’ambito di un meeting virtuale del progetto Enov-Food. Maggiori informazioni alla URL seguente: https://simtrea.org/it/in-evidenza/presentazione-delle-funzionalita-di-foodmicrobionet.
Organizzato da SIMTREA
Via Montepaldi 12
50026 San Casciano Val di Pesa (FI)
Email: segreteria@simtrea.org
IT manager position at CECT – Valencia
See the Call (Catalan and Spanish)
Responsibilities:
- Contribute in the development and testing of the applications generated within the project.
- Develop tools for the interconnection of the project applications with other Research Infrastructures applications.
- Monitor performance of information technology systems to determine cost and productivity levels, and to make recommendations for improving the IT infrastructure.
- Help define IT infrastructure strategy, architecture, and processes.
- Troubleshoot hardware and software issues related to internal IT.
Education and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 2-5 years of experience working in IT operations.
- Proficiency in English (oral and written).
Qualifications/skills:
- Firm grasp on IT infrastructure and operations best practices.
- Proven working experience in IT management or relevant experience.
- Experience in metadata, ontologies, integration and interoperability of data, security and usability.
- Knowledge of cloud services PaaS and SaaS.
- Proficiency in web scripting languages (php, Python, etc.).
- Experience in web development tools (jQuery, Vue.js, Agilent, BootStrap, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with xml.
- Experience in relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) and non-relational (MongoDB, etc.) database management systems.
- Working experience in Research Infrastructures and in Life Sciences research projects would be an asset.
If you are interested please contact Aurora Zuzuarregui.