COMMITTEES
Conference Chairs
Nelson Lima, President of ICCC15
MUM Micoteca da Universidade do Minho,
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Cledir Santos, Vice-President of ICCC15
mRB-UFRO Microbiological Resource Bank,
Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Scientific Committee
- Nelson Lima, MUM Micoteca Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
- Cledir Santos, mRB-UFRO Microbiological Resource Bank, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
- Jorge Pedrosa, Portuguese Society of Microbiology
- Raquel Aires Barros, Portuguese Society of Biotechnology
- Vitor Vasconcelos, CIIMAR Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- José Paulo Sampaio, Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
- Carla Santos, MUM Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- Célia Soares, MUM Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- Armando Venâncio, Biological Engineering Centre, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Local Organizing Committee Members
- Nelson Lima, MUM Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- Carla Santos, MUM Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- Célia Soares, MUM Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- Manuel G. Silva, MUM Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- Ana João Ferreira, MIRRI-ERIC Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure, Braga, Portugal
- Ricardo M. Cruz, Biological Engineering Centre, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
International Committee Members (WFCC Executive Board Members)
- Ipek Kurtböke, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
- Manuela da Silva, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil
- Marizeth Groenewald, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, The Netherlands
- Andrey Yurkov, DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Germany
- Juncai Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Lily Eurwilaichitr, Thailand Bioresource Research Center, Thailand
- Maria Kuyukina, Perm State University, Russia
- Anabela Martins, MUM Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, University of Minho, Portugal
- G.S. Prasad, University of Hyderabad, India
- Marco Riojas, ATCC American Type Culture Collection, USA
- Cledir Santos, mRB-UFRO Microbiological Resource Bank, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile
- Yogesh Shouche, National Center for Cell Science, India
- Ken-ichiro Suzuki, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
- Benedetta Turchetti, Industrial Yeasts Collection, University of Perugia, Italy
- Vania Vicente, Microbiological Collections of Paraná Network and Federal University of Parana, Brazil
- Philippe Desmeth, Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms, Belgium