National Collection of Microbial Strains and Cell Cultures of CINVESTAV
June 16, 2025Collection Website
WDCM Identifier
500
Organizational structure
Government Agency, Academia
Collection Institution/Entity
CINVESTAV
Staff working with the Collection
5
Collection Contact
Juan Carlos Estrada Mora
Position of Collection contact
Head
Collection Phone
+52 5557473903
Collection can be contacted
Yes
- Has continued institutional support
- Interested in Collaborative Programs
- Collection contains reference strains
- Collection contains sequencing data
- Interested in Culture Collections Exchange
- Interested in working with samples from different repositories
- Ability to accept orphan collections
Collection Category
Publicly available (qualified curator, collection management policies, microbial specimens, a database of collection information, an online strain catalog, and distributes strains to the scientific community)
Collection follows best management practice guideline
OECD Best Practices Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres (https://www.oecd.org/health/biotech/oecdbestpracticeguidelinesforbiologicalresourcecentres.htm), World Federation for Culture Collections Guidelines (http://www.wfcc.info/guidelines/)
Organisms in Collection
Fungi, Bacteria, Algae, Yeast
Reference strains in collection
Our collection mantein type strains of some Bacteria and Fungi
Sequencing data in collection
Universal Ribosomal Gene
Training opportunities provided by Collection
Culture Collection management (e.g. quality control procedures, databases, etc., Culturing and preservation methods (including cryopreservation)
Funding Sources for Research performed with Collection specimens
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Availability and distribution mechanisms
Fee per strain for distribution, Peer to peer for collaborations
Services provided by Collection
Storage service (safe deposit), Strain isolation/taxonomic identification, Custom material preparation (such as genomic DNA/RNA)
Consultations provided by Collection
Preservation
Host Associations in Collection
Grain crops, Other Plants, Insects, Humans, Soil, Built Environment
Research fields relevant to Collection
Agriculture, Culture and preservation methods, Ecology, Fermentation, Food science, Freeze drying and cryopreservation, General microbiology, Genetics, Industrial microbiology, Medical microbiology, Molecular biology, Plant pathology, Starter cultures for foods/beverages, Systematics and taxonomy