BCCM™ News is a biannual 4-page newsletter created in 1996 to improve the relationship between the BCCM™ and its clients (see editorial, launch issue). It is circulated by post to more than 7 000 people in over 50 countries. The following editions are now on-line:

• Edition 22/10
  The BCCM consortium extends it co-operation with 3 specialised culture collections;
  The diatom collection at the Ghent University;
  The polar cyanobacteria collection at the University of Liège;
  The mycobacteria collection at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp;
  The Belgian government recognises permanent status of BCCM
  
  
• Edition 21/07
  Continuous improvement at the BCCM - Client satisfaction survey;
  New service at BCCM/LMBP: ProfileThoseSugars Parallellized glycoprotein N-glycan analysis with capill ary array DNA-analysers;
  Screening and genetic manipulation of fungi for improved protein secretion and N-glycosylation - A project in the framework of the 'Action for the promotion of and co-operation with the Belgian Coordinated Collection of Micro-organisms, BCCM';
  BELSPO Project C3/00/14: 'Elaborating public culture colections of diatoms, polar cyanobacteria and mycobacteria in Belgium'
  
  
• Edition 20/06
  Now available at BCCM/LMBP: validated plasmid resources for Arabidopsis reverse genetics via RNA interference;
  From plants to silage: the mycotoxin problematic;
  The international training on the in vitro culture of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi;
  New directors for BCCM/LMBP and BCCM/MUCL
  
  
• Edition 19/06
  Knowledge management systems for microbial information;
  Development of molecular tools for monitoring and control of fungi in advanced life support systems;
  New director for BCCM/LMG: Prof. Paul De Vos;
  Identification of Vibrionaceae at BCCM/LMG
  
  
• Edition 18/05
  Strengthening the BCCM corporate identify with multi-site ISO 9001:2000 certification;
  BCCM in the Caribbean: launching of the Cuban fungal resource collection at the Institute of Ecology and Systematics, Havana;
  Understanding ownership in the knowledge economy: the concept of the bundle of rights
  
  
• Edition 17/05
  Round table conference BCCM: Biological Resource Centres in motion; EXPLORING MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEMS WITH DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE)
  
  
• Edition 16/04
  Allergy to moulds; BCCM participas in the Tenth International Congress of Culture Collections in Tsukuba, Japan
  
  
• Edition 15/04
  Towards a global infrastructure for microbial information; MOSAICS starts; Prof. Swings is advisor for the BRC of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; The BCCM: activities and funding for the period 2004 - 2008
  
  
• Edition 14/03
  Plasmids in lactic acid bacteria: from cheese making to medical applications; Testing the suitability of microbial cultures for use as reference material in international norms and standardised methods
  
  
• Edition 13/03
  The BCCM go south: The launching of the Moroccan Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms; Development of BCCM Material Transfer Agreement; Biofilms on murals: a habitat of novel bacterial species.
  
  
• Edition 12/02
  The security of micro-organisms distributed by culture collections;Pharmaceutical bio-prospecting: What conditions are needed for a North-South partnership?; Tetracycline resistance in lactic acid bacteria isolated from fermented dry sausages.
  
  
• Edition 11/02
  Evolving from Culture Collections to Biological Resources Centres; Fumonisins : mycotoxins produced by Fusarium species of the Gibberella fujikuroi complex (section Liseola);World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC): preserving microbial diversity;
  
  
• Edition 10/01
  GINCO: a Glomales in vitro collection; Coping with the World’s Biodiversity Data: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  Microplate DNA-DNA hybridization for reliable identification of acetic acid bacteria;
  
  
• Edition 9/01
  The safe packaging of infectious microbial samples; Burkholderia cepacia: Pandora’s box redefined; Aspergillus fumigatus EBGA subcollection
  
  
• Edition 8/00
  BCCM on line; A guided tour through the BCCM/LMBP On-line Plasmid Database; BCCM participation in the WFCC and ICCC-9; The MIRCEN Network: a global resource for international co-operation; The UNESCO / Biotechnology Action Council (BAC) programme
  
  
• Edition 7/00
  BCCM™/IHEM, Biomedical fungi and yeasts collection; Feature: The "Vanbreuseghem mycotheque"; Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights related to microbial genetic resources; Bioinformatics corner: CABRI
  
  
• Edition 6/99
  Interview: BCCMTM/LMG, past, present and future; plus ... BCCMTM/LMG: New Director Appointed; Feature: Molecular microbiological tools for food industry; plus ...Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP); In brief: THE BCCMTM: 1999 - 2003; Bioinformatics corner: Food sites on the Web
  
  
• Edition 5/98
  Features articles: The Budapest Treaty: Deposits of (micro)biological material for patent purposes; A code of practice for IDAs: an ECCO initiative coordinated by BCCM™ Case Study: Plasmids injected in a nematode host; The BCCM™ Consortium as an IDA.
  
  
• Edition 4/97
  Feature articles: DNA sequencing: A powerful new tool for the classification and identification of bacteria and fungi; cDNA libraries: now also available from BCCM™/LMBP.
  
  
• Edition 3/97
  Feature articles: The CBD: a Challenge for Culture Collections; INBIO-Costa Rica: a Case Study; MOSAICC: a Code of Conduct; Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.
  
  
• Edition 2/96
  Feature articles: BCCM™ Agro-industrial Fungi and Yeasts Collection; Probiotics Additives.
  
  
• Edition 1/96
  Feature articles: Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance; the BCCM™'s Plasmid Collection.
  
  
• Edition 0/96: the 'zeroth' launch edition.
  Feature article: a two-page interview with the BCCM™'s Co-ordination team.
  
  

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