| Registered Number | 1245 |
| Acronym | NIFS-SLCC |
| Full Name | NIFS-Sri Lanka Culture Collection |
| Institution | National Institute of Fundamental Studies |
| Correspondent |
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| Postal Address | Hantana Road,Kandy,Central,20000 |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Telephone 1 | (94) - 81 223 2002 |
| Telephone 2 | (+94) 77 317 5850 |
| Fax 1 | (+94) 81 22 32 131 |
| E-mail 1 | renuka.ra@nifs.ac.lk |
| E-mail 2 | renukaratnayake12@gmail.com |
| Homepage | www.nifs.ac.lk |
| Status | Semi-governmental |
| Sponsor | National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| Director |
Prof. Renuka Ratnayake E-Mail:renuka.ra@nifs.ac.lk |
| Curator | Miss. Tharangika Bowange (Microbiology) E-mail:tharangika.bo@nifs.ac.lk |
| Miss. Sandhya Jayasekara (Microbiology) E-mail:sandhya.ja@nifs.ac.lk |
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| Number of Staff |
Bacteriology (1) Algology (1) Mycology (1) Assistants (1) Computer specialist (1) Total (5) |
| Subjects | Agriculture |
| Applied microbiology | |
| Culture and preservation methods | |
| Fermentation | |
| Food science | |
| General microbiology | |
| Industrial microbiology | |
| Molecular biology | |
| Plant pathology | |
| Systematics and taxonomy |
| Method and category of cultures | Freezer(Fungi,Bacteria,Cyanobacteria, Yeast) | ||||
| Subculturing(Fungi,Bacteria,Cyanobacteria, Yeast) | |||||
| Storage of fungal spores in sterile distilled water(Fungi) | |||||
| Control of the culture | Polyphasic identification and strain characterization | ||||
| Long-term preservation of cultures at -80°C | |||||
| Managing strain stocks devoid of contamination | |||||
| Consistent evaluation of isolates for value addition | |||||
| Short-term preservation of cultures 0-4 °C | |||||
| Routine viability checking | |||||
| Deposit | to other collections in your country | ||||
| 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 | DSMZ(Germany) | ||||
| 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 | 44 | 44 | |||
| Fungi | 130 | 130 | |||
| Yeasts | 30 | 30 | |||
| Cyanobacteria | 241 | 241 | 1 | 1 | |
| 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 | 38 | 38 | 5 | 5 | |||
| Fungi | 100 | 100 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Yeasts | 30 | 30 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Cyanobacteria | 140 | 140 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | |
| Catalogue | Plan to publish the first edition in 2022 |
| Need help to publish |
| Services | Storage service(Bacteria, Fungi, Yeasts and Cyanobacteria) |
| Distribution | |
| Training | Management of a culture collection |
| Culture and preservation methods | |
| Identification | |
| Consulation about | Preservation |
| Propagation | |
| Other Service | Providing training sessions for students and technical staff members of the universities |
| Providing research facilities for postgraduate/ undergraduate research students |
| Date of Entry | 2021-03-29 |
| Date of Reply | 2021-03-29 |