National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA)
June 11, 2024Collection Website
Organizational structure
Private non-profit
Collection Institution/Entity
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Staff working with the Collection
6
Collection Contact
Michael Lomas
Position of Collection contact
NCMA Director
Collection Email
Collection Phone
1-207-315-2567 x3
Collection can be contacted
Yes
- Has continued institutional support
- Interested in Culture Collections Exchange
- Interested in working with samples from different repositories
- Interested in Collaborative Programs
- Ability to accept orphan collections
- Collection contains sequencing data
- Collection contains reference strains
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)
Capacity to accept orphan collections
open for discussion on possible paths forward for larger collections (must be cryopreservable), smaller collections in perpetual culture can be discussed.
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
Bacteria, Algae
Sequencing data in collection
some of our strains are sequenced and data can be found in GenBank or linked from our strain pages.
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
Department of Energy (DOE), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Availability and distribution mechanisms
Fee per strain for distribution
Services provided by Collection
Patent deposits, Storage service (safe deposit), Strain isolation/taxonomic identification, Custom material preparation (such as genomic DNA/RNA), Contract screening
Consultations provided by Collection
Patent deposits, Preservation
Host Associations in Collection
Water
Research fields relevant to Collection
Agriculture, Cell biology, Taxonomy