Workshop Series 2: Path Forward for Naming the Uncultivated (February 2021)

“Practical barriers to naming uncultivated microorganisms” (February 4/5 2021)
Objective: To tackle roadblock issues and concerns with the Uncultivated Code
Format: Pre-recorded talks, moderated round table discussion, breakout groups

Watch Workshop Recording 1a

Watch Workshop Recording 1b

Pre-recorded talks and background reading

Pre-recorded talks and presenters are listed below along with associated papers
How did we get here? Ramon Rossello-Mora
   Associated paper:
   Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy –  Konstantinidis et al. The ISME Journal

Can MAGs be of same quality as isolate genomes for taxonomic descriptions? Kostas Konstantinidis
   Associated paper:
   Advantages outweigh concerns about using genome sequence as type material for prokaryotic taxonomy Konstantinidis et al. Environmental microbiology

Nomenclature of Candidatus taxa: establishing order in the current chaos Aharon Oren
   Associated paper:
   Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa Oren et al. Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

The importance of a type to be cultivable, according to the ICNP Ed Moore
   Associated paper:
   A System to Automatically Classify and Name Any Individual Genome-Sequenced Organism Independently of Current Biological Classification and  Nomenclature Marakeby et al. Plos one

Roadmap to naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria Alison Murray
   Associated paper:
   Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria Murrey et al. Nature Microbiology

The SeqCode: a code for naming prokaryotes with DNA sequences as the type Barny Whitman
   Associated paper:
   Dialogue on the nomenclature and classification of prokaryotes Whitman et al. Systematic and Applied Microbiology
Genome sequences as the type material for taxonomic descriptions of prokaryotes Whitman. Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Breakout Group Feedback Fanus Venter