Spanish Type Culture Collection (CECT)

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)

Organisms in Collection

Fungi, Bacteria, Yeast, archaea

Reference strains in collection

We have above 3000 Type strains and almost all WDCM strains

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

Our users are mostly Europeans carrying out research funded mainly with national or European grants

Availability and distribution mechanisms

Fee per strain for distribution

Services provided by Collection

Patent deposits, Storage service (safe deposit), Strain isolation/taxonomic identification

Consultations provided by Collection

Patent deposits, Preservation, Propagation, Shipment regulations

Genus in Collection

Host Associations in Collection

Grain crops, Fruits, Vegetables, Other Plants, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Other Animals, Humans

Research fields relevant to Collection

Agriculture, Cell biology, Culture and preservation methods, Developmental biology, Ecology, Fermentation, Food science, Freeze drying and cryopreservation, General microbiology, Genetics, Immunology, Industrial microbiology, Medical microbiology, Molecular biology, Plant pathology, Starter cultures for foods/beverages, Synthetic biology, Systematics and taxonomy, Veterinary