| Registered Number | 6 |
| Acronym | HER |
| Full Name | Felix d'Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses |
| Institution | Universite Laval |
| Correspondent | Prof. Sylvain Moineau |
| Postal Address | 2420 rue de la Terrasse, Faculte de medecine dentaire, Université Laval,Quebec,Quebec,G1V 0A6 |
| Country | Canada |
| Telephone 1 | (1) 418-656-3712 |
| Telephone 2 | (1) 418-656-2485 |
| Fax 1 | (1) 418-656-2861 |
| E-mail 1 | collection.phages@bcm.ulaval.ca |
| E-mail 2 | sylvain.moineau@bcm.ulaval.ca |
| Homepage | http://www.phage.ulaval.ca |
| Status | University |
| Sponsor | Self-supporting |
| Universite Laval |
| Director | Prof. Sylvain Moineau |
| Curator | Mrs. Denise Tremblay (Microbiology) |
| Number of Staff |
Bacteriology (1) Total (1) |
| Subjects | Agriculture |
| Applied microbiology | |
| Culture and preservation methods | |
| Evolutionary biology | |
| Fermentation | |
| Food science | |
| Freeze drying | |
| General microbiology | |
| Genetic engineering | |
| Genetics | |
| Industrial microbiology | |
| Medical microbiology | |
| Molecular biology | |
| Systematics and taxonomy |
| Method and category of cultures | Freezer(Bacteriophages, bacteria) | ||||
| Liquid N2(Bacteriophages, bacteria) | |||||
| Freeze-dry(Bacteriophages, bacteria) | |||||
| Storage as lysates at +4(Bacteriophages) | |||||
| Control of the culture | DNA restriction profiles ( Bacteriophages ) | ||||
| Host range (Bacteriophage) | |||||
| 16S (bacteria) | |||||
| Genome sequencing | |||||
| Deposit | DSMZ(Germany) | ||||
| ATCC(USA) | |||||
| 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 | ATCC(U.S.A) | ||||
| 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 | 400 | 27 | 130 | 27 | |
| Viruses: bacteria | 460 | 27 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| Viruses: bacteria | |||||||
| Availability | fee for 250$ US per phage or bacteria |
| Catalogue | Catalogue Computerized http://www.phage.ulaval.ca/catalogue/ |
| Services | Storage service(Bacteriophages, bacteria) |
| Distribution(Bacteriophages, bacteria) | |
| Identification(Bacteriophages and bacteria on request) | |
| Training | Training on methods to work with phages |
| Consulation about | Patent deposits |
| Preservation | |
| Propagation | |
| Bacteriophages | |
| Other Service | Genome sequencing |
| Host range | |
| Phage isolation | |
| Phage detection |
| Date of Entry | 1983-01-12 |
| Date of Reply | 2015-12-31 |
| Bacteria Fungi |