International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae and Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae: Minutes of the joint open meeting, 3 September 2007, Colchester, UK

Minute 3.
The chairman A. Ventosa presented a short obituary in memory of Dr Milos Kocur, the former curator of the Czech Collection of Micro-organisms, who had passed away in September 2006. Dr Kocur was the first chairman of the ISCB Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae and contributed much to the study of halophilic micro-organisms.

Minute 4. Approval of agenda.
The agenda of the meeting was approved.

Minute 5. Minutes of previous meetings.
The minutes of the meetings of the Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae held in San Francisco, USA, 25 July 2005 [Oren & Ventosa, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55 (2005), 2637–2638] and of the Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae held in San Francisco, USA, 25 July 2005 [Vreeland & Ventosa, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56 (2006), 2021–2022] were approved.