| Registered Number | 1079 |
| Acronym | UMCC |
| Full Name | Unimore Microbial Culture Collection |
| Institution | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Life Sciences |
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| Correspondent | Dr. Luciana De Vero |
| Postal Address | Via Amendola, 2,Reggio Emilia,Re,42122 |
| Country | Italy |
| Telephone 1 | (39) - 0522 522057 |
| Telephone 2 | (39) - 0522 522034 |
| Fax 1 | (39) - 0522 522027 |
| E-mail 1 | luciana.devero@unimore.it |
| E-mail 2 | umcc@unimore.it |
| Homepage | www.umcc.unimore.it |
| Status | University |
| Sponsor | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia |
| Director |
Dr. Maria Gullo E-Mail:maria.gullo@unimore.it |
| Curator | Dr. Luciana De Vero (microbiologist) E-mail:luciana.devero@unimore.it |
| Number of Staff |
Bacteriology (1) Mycology (1) Computer specialist (1) Molecular Biology (1) PhD Students (4) Total (8) |
| Subjects | Culture and preservation methods |
| Fermentation | |
| Food science | |
| Genetics | |
| Industrial microbiology | |
| Molecular biology |
| Method and category of cultures | Freezer(Fungi and bacteria) | ||||
| Control of the culture | viability | ||||
| purity | |||||
| authenticity | |||||
| Deposit | CBS(The Netherlands) | ||||
| DSMZ(Germany) | |||||
| Source(s) of strains for people in this country: isolated by or introduced from | Isolation by ourselves | ||||
| Personally from the scientists in our country | |||||
| the collection abroad | DSMZ(Germany) | ||||
| the collection abroad | CBS(The Netherlans) | ||||
| Number of Strains until now | Type | Holding strains (total number)/(number from your country) |
new species (total number)/(number from your country) |
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| Bacteria | 869 | 772 | |||
| Yeasts | 1890 | 1490 | |||
| Number of strains last year | Type | Holding strains (total number)/(number from your country) |
new species (total number)/(number from your country) |
Microbes distributed (total number)/(in your country) |
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| Bacteria | |||||||
| Yeasts | |||||||
| Availability | free to collegues involved in the reseach projects |
| exchange with most recognized collection | |
| fee for 100 Euro VAT excluded; 35% discount for universities, accademies or educational istitutions |
| Catalogue | Published the first catalogue in 2013 year(s) |
| Catalogue Computerized http://umcc.bio-aware.com/ | |
| Updated periodically | |
| Number of holdings published in catalogue | 1017 |
| Number of Publications last year | 4 |
| Number of distributions Last year | about 20 |
| Services | Storage service(Yeasts, Lactic acid bacteria, Acetic acid bacteria) |
| Distribution(Yeasts, Lactic acid bacteria, Acetic acid bacteria) | |
| Identification(Yeasts, Lactic acid bacteria, Acetic acid bacteria) | |
| Training | Management of a culture collection |
| Culture and preservation methods | |
| Quality control | |
| Genetic engineering | |
| Karyotyping | |
| Identification | |
| BioloMICS software for the database of biological data | |
| Other Service | Starter cultures preparation for food and industrial fermentation processes |
| Date of Entry | 2014-10-28 |
| Date of Reply | 2019-07-03 |