Event information

Securing the Crop Microbiome for Agri-Bioscience Research

Thursday 26th October: Official launch of the UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank at the John Innes Centre- "Securing the Crop Microbiome for Agri-Bioscience Research" – An overview of the approach to biobanking of samples and their subsequent characterisation and how to make this available to the user community will be provided.

 This is an open meeting, for any researcher or stakeholder interested in the rapidly developing area of agri-microbiome science and biobanking that supports the user community.

To register your interest or for further information please contact cryobank@cabi.org 

Friday 27th October: "The Power of Microbes in Sustainable Land Use and Food Security" - A meeting organised by Applied Microbiology International.


From 19th to 22nd of September 2023 the 41st ECCO meeting will take place in Brussels, Belgium. ECCO is the European Culture Collections´  Organisation and promotes collaboration and exchange of ideas and information about all aspects of culture collection activity. The ECCO meeting will be held at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. 

MICROBE will be presented there with a poster and experts participating.


On 26th and 27th of October 2023 our project partner CABI invites to participate at the official launch of the UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank and a meeting organised by teh Applied Microbiology International.

For registation and further information, please, contact cryobank@cabi.org.


MOOC on biobanking

The new edition of the MOOC on biobanking is open and completely free, and recorded in englisch, with french and spanich subtitles.

Registration link and more information: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/biobanking/

Broadcasting will take place from March 15, 2023 - May 17, 2023.