CULTURE COLLECTIONS

http://www.ncimb.co.uk/ NCIMB is a professional microbiology company. We have built and managed the largest industrial, marine and food culture collection in the UK since the 1950's. We have provided a comprehensive range of commercial microbiology services to multiple companies in diverse industries since 1983.

http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/about/index.htm The Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) - an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( KNAW ) and situated in Utrecht - maintains a world-renowned collection of living filamentous fungi, yeasts and bacteria. The Institute's research programs principally focus on the taxonomy and evolution of fungi as well as on functional aspects of fungal biology and ecology, increasingly making use of molecular and genomics approaches. The institute employs circa 50 personnel, among whom 17 scientists. 

http://www.ukncc.co.uk/html/Information/Organisms.htm The UKNCC (UK national culture collections) members collections offer a culture/cell supply service. The organisms that are supplied include actinomycetes, algae, animal cells, bacteria, cyanobacteria, filamentous fungi, nematodes, protozoa, mycoplasm and yeasts.

http://www.jcm.riken.go.jp/ Japanese Collection of Microorganisms.

http://www.dsmz.de/ Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen Gmbh- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures.

http://www.lgcpromochem-atcc.com/about/LGCATCCPart.cfm American Type Culture Collection. LGC Promochem's partnership with ATCC facilitates the distribution of ATCC cultures and bioproducts to life science researchers throughout Europe . Our specific aim is to ensure the very highest levels of customer service and LGC Promochem has invested significantly in material and human resources at its Laboratory in South West London. We now hold more than 1000 ATCC products as European stock. For locally held materials delivery times have been reduced to within 3-5 working days of order receipt and for non-stock items delivery time is usually within two weeks.

http://wdcm.nig.ac.jp/wdcm/JFCC.html . A link to the catalogues of Japan Federation for Culture Collection.

http://invam.caf.wvu.edu/index.html The International Culture Collection of Vesicular/Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi that must be grown on the roots of living plants.

http://www.vkm.ru/ VKM is one of the Russia 's largest research and service collections in the field of non-medical microbiology. The collection maintains over 10 000 strains including many type and reference strains. The list of species maintained by VKM has been included in the World Directory of Collections of Cultures of Microorganisms of the World Data Centre, where VKM is assigned number 342. Research at VKM emphasizes taxonomy and ecology of selected groups of microorganisms - bacteria (including actinomycetes) and micro fungi (including yeasts).

http://www.babs.unsw.edu.au/about/centres/micro_culture.html The Microbiology Culture Collection, UNSW in Australia . The collection was established in 1969, and provides cultures for education and industry. It is registered with the World Directory of Collections of Cultures of Microorganisms (WDCM248) in the World Federation of Culture Collections.

http://bcc.biotec.or.th/AboutBCC.asp Thailand BIOTEC Culture Collection (BCC) was established in 1996 at the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) to support the national biodiversity policy in conservation and sustainable use of microbial resources in Thailand . The principle practice of the collection is to preserve and collect microbial cultures isolated in Thailand and the accompanying data in a standard system.

http://bccm.belspo.be/index.php The BCCM's origins go back to 1983, when a study ordered by the Belgian government showed that the patrimony of microbial resources and the human skills available in separate Belgian institutions could be better conserved and optimally exploited by joining forces. At that time, collections of one public scientific institution and two universities decided to accept the challenge: the collection of fungi and yeasts of biomedical importance, the collection of fungi and yeasts of agro-industrial importance, the bacteria collection and the plasmid collection.

http://www.ccap.ac.uk/index.htm The Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa. The freshwater section of CCAP relocated to Scotland to join the marine section at the new Scottish Association for Marine Science laboratory near Oban. CCAP is a single collection, occupies a facility within the European Centre for Marine Biotechnology.

http://www.ccug.gu.se/ Culture Collection, University of Göteborg , Sweden (CCUG) holds a broad range of bacteria and the most demanded test strains of filamentous fungi and yeasts. We do not hold extremophiles or intracellular organisms and we do not distribute hazard group 3 organisms. Cultures are freeze-dried and may be sent abroad promptly under controlled forms. Our identification service has been active for 38 years. We have huge databases and we are pleased to share the information with you through our search engine.