| Registered Number | 1205 |
| Acronym | WM |
| Full Name | Westmead Medical Mycology Collection |
| Institution | University of Sydney, Western Clinical School, Westmead Hopsital (REN) |
| Correspondent | Prof. Wieland Meyer |
| Postal Address | 176 Hawkesbury Road,Westmead/Sydney,NSW,2145 |
| Country | Australia |
| Telephone 1 | (61) - 86273430 |
| E-mail 1 | wieland.meyer@sydney.edu.au |
| Homepage | www.mycologylab.org |
| Status | University |
| Sponsor | Sydney Western Local Health District (SWLHD) |
| National Helath and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) | |
| University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health |
| Director |
 E-Mail:wieland.meyer@sydney.edu.au |
| Curator | Dr. Laszlo Irynyi (Molecular Mycologist) |
| Ms. Krystyna Maszewska (Mycology) | |
| Mr. Alex Khan (Veterinarian) | |
| Prof. Tania C. Sorrell (Infectious Diseases) | |
| Prof. Sharon C.A. Chen (Infectious Diseases) | |
| Dr. Catriona Haliday (Molecular Mycology) | |
| Number of Staff |
Mycology (5) Assistants (2) Total (7) |
| Subjects | Culture and preservation methods |
| Ecology | |
| Medical microbiology | |
| Molecular biology | |
| Plant pathology | |
| Systematics and taxonomy | |
| Veterinary |
| Method and category of cultures | Freeze-dry(Fungi) | ||||
| Subculturing(Fungi) | |||||
| -80C Glycerol Cultures(Fungi) | |||||
| 4C(Fungi) | |||||
| Control of the culture | Morphology | ||||
| elongation factor 1 alpha sequencing | |||||
| Physiologically | |||||
| whole genome sequencing | |||||
| DNA barcoding | |||||
| ITS sequencing | |||||
| Deposit | to your collection | ||||
| to other collections in your country | |||||
| CBS(The Netherlands) | |||||
| CDC(USA) | |||||
| FIOCRUZ(Brazil) | |||||
| Source(s) of strains for people in this country: isolated by or introduced from | Isolation by ourselves | ||||
| Personally from the scientists in our country | |||||
| From the collections in our country | |||||
| From the research institutions in our country | |||||
| the collection abroad | CBS(The Netherlands) | ||||
| the collection abroad | ATCC(USA) | ||||
| the collection abroad | CDC(USA) | ||||
| the collection abroad | FIOCRUZ(Brazil) | ||||
| the research institution abroad | CDC(USA) | ||||
| the research institution abroad | NIH(USA) | ||||
| the research institution abroad | FIOCRUZ(Brazil) | ||||
| the research institution abroad | Chulalongkorn(Thailand) | ||||
| the research institution abroad | Duke University (USA) | ||||
| 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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| Fungi | 5000 | 4550 | |||
| Yeasts | 10000 | 8000 | |||
| 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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| Fungi | 50 | 50 | 200 | 200 | |||
| Yeasts | 150 | 150 | 560 | 560 | |||
| Catalogue | Local database (Biolomics) |
| Services | Storage service(Fungi, Yeasts) |
| Distribution(Fungi, Yeasts) | |
| Identification(molecular identification via DUal fungal DNA barcoding ) |
| Date of Entry | 2019-05-23 |
| Date of Reply | 2019-05-23 |