International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and related organisms. Minutes of closed and open meetings, 3 September 2018, Berlin, Germany Mattarelli, Paola and Felis, Giovanna E. and Holzapfel, Wilhelm H. and Franz, Charles M. A. P.,, 69, 1521-1523 (2019), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003352, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= The meeting of International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes, Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Bifidobacterium , Lactobacillus and related organisms was held within the frame of the FoodMicro 2018 Congress (FoodMicro 2018, 3–6 September 2018, Berlin, Germany). The meeting comprised an open session with a workshop entitled ‘Modern approaches of LAB identification and conservation’ and a closed session on issues related to ICSP Subcommittee activities., language=, type=