CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: MICROBIAL COMMONS
Designing the Microbial Research Commons:
learning from institutional policies
and collaborative network technologies
12-13 June 2008
Het Pand, Ghent, Belgium
http://www.microbialcommons.org
Dear colleague,
As part of an international undertaking and collaboration between Science
Commons, the StrainInfo.net bioportal, the Genomic Standards Consortium,
Bioversity International and the US national committees of CODATA, IUMS
and IUBS, an international conference on the building of an integrated
infrastructure in microbial research dealing with issues such as
bioinformatics, intellectual property rights, material transfer agreements,
text mining and integration with genomics databases will be organised on
June 12-13 2008 at “Het Pand” Conference Centre in Ghent, Belgium. This
conference is open to all involved in microbial research, microbial
resources, industrial microbiology, publishing and policy making.
Conference website: http://www.microbialcommons.org
Contact us: MicrobialCommons@lists.UGent.be
The microbial commons conference is organized back to back with the
annual meeting of the European Culture Collections’ Organisation (ECCO),
June 10-11 2008.
ECCO website: http://www.eccosite.org/
