| Registered Number | 1209 |
| Acronym | COSMI |
| Full Name | Collection of Sea Microorganisms |
| Institution | National Institute of Oceanography and Expperimental Geophysics |
| Comment | The Collection of Sea Microoganisms, CoSMi, includes many species of unicellular (autothrophic and heterotrophic) eukaryotes that belong to the broad categories of diatoms, flagellates and ciliates with a special weight on dinoflagellates. |
| Correspondent | Dr. Alfred Beran |
| Postal Address | Via A. Piccard 54,Trieste,FVG,34151 |
| Country | Italy |
| Telephone 1 | (39) - 0402249715 |
| Fax 1 | (39) - 0402249770 |
| E-mail 1 | aberan@inogs.it |
| Homepage | http://cosmi.inogs.it |
| Status | Governmental |
| Director |
Dr. Marina Cabrini E-Mail:mcabrini@inogs.it |
| Curator | Dr. Marina Cabrini (phytoplankton) E-mail:mcabrini@inogs.it |
| Dr. Alfred Beran (dinoflagellates, ciliates, phytoplankton) E-mail:aberan@inogs.it |
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| Dr. Federica Cerino (diatoms, cryptophytes, phytoplankton) E-mail:fcerino@inogs.it |
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| Number of Staff |
Algology (3) Protozoology (1) Assistants (1) Computer specialist (1) Total (6) |
| Subjects | Ecology |
| Marine biology | |
| Systematics and taxonomy |
| Method and category of cultures | Subculturing(dinoflagellates) | ||||
| Subculturing(diatoms) | |||||
| Subculturing(cryptophytes) | |||||
| Subculturing(other phytoflagellates) | |||||
| Subculturing(hetreotrofic protists) | |||||
| Control of the culture | weekly microscopic visual control | ||||
| test for growth of bacteria every 3 month | |||||
| at the start of the culture: SEM, TEM, genetics | |||||
| Deposit | to your collection | ||||
| 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 | SAG(Germany) | ||||
| the collection abroad | RCC(France) | ||||
| the collection abroad | CCAP(United Kingdom) | ||||
| 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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| Protozoa | 5 | 5 | |||
| Microalgae | 136 | 130 | 0 | 2 | |
| 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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| Protozoa | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Microalgae | 136 | 130 | 0 | 8 | |||
| Catalogue | Published the first catalogue in 2017 year(s) |
| Catalogue Computerized http://cosmi.inogs.it |
| Services | Distribution(microalgae) |
| Date of Entry | 2019-07-01 |
| Date of Reply | 2019-07-01 |