UCCCB – University of Coimbra Bacterial Culture Collection

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

World Federation for Culture Collections Guidelines (http://www.wfcc.info/guidelines/)

Organisms in Collection

Bacteria

Reference strains in collection

We acquired bacterial strains from European collections to perform ISO standard techniques.

Sequencing data in collection

16S rRNA sequences and partial genome sequences for some of the deposited organisms

Training opportunities provided by Collection

Genetic engineering methods, Genome sequence analysis

Funding Sources for Research performed with Collection specimens

Portuguese government financing and European research financing.

Availability and distribution mechanisms

Fee per strain for distribution, Peer to peer for collaborations

Services provided by Collection

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

Consultations provided by Collection

Patent deposits, Preservation, Propagation, Antimicrobial activity of materials. Bioremediation. Biological treatments in wastewater treatment processes.

Genus in Collection

Host Associations in Collection

Other Plants, Amphibians

Research fields relevant to Collection

Agriculture, Ecology, General microbiology, Industrial microbiology, Molecular biology, Systematics and taxonomy