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Due to the continued spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19),
the Organising Committee of the Joint ECB2020 and IBS 2020 Congress have taken the decision to postpone this year’s Congress, due to take place from 28 June to 1 July 2020.

The ECB-IBS 2020 Congress will be moved to the 9-12 May 2021 and will still be held at the MECC in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

ASBE V will provide a forum for discussion of the latest advances in synthetic biology both in academy and industry. Join us in Delft and share your latest research with the synthetic biology community!

Point-of-care (POC) detection is crucial in clinical diagnosis in order to provide timely and specific treatment. Combining polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer, p-phenylene diisothiocyanate (PDITC) and superparamagnetic beads, a novel method to activate the surface of filter paper to bind DNA molecules has been developed. The method is based on the primary amination of the filter paper surface with PAMAM dendrimer, followed by generation of isothiocyanate groups via PDITC, and subsequent repetition of these two steps. Different parameters of the process have been optimized, including probe printing, preparation of target DNAs and detection. T

Publish and Read is a new fee-free way for authors to publish Open Access (OA) articles in all of the Society’s journals – both the OA titles (Microbial Genomics and Access Microbiology) as well as the subscription titles, Microbiology, Journal of Medical Microbiology, Journal of General Virology and International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Readers at Publish and Read institutions also get unlimited access to all paywalled content. To see whether your institution has signed up for fee-free OA, check the list of institutions on our website.