- Collection name: Bologna University Scardovi Collection of Bifidobacteria
- Acronym: BUSCOB
- WDCM number: 1139
- Institution: University of Bologna, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences
- Address:
Viale Fanin 44
40127 Bologna
Italy - Website: https://site.unibo.it/buscob-microbial-collection/en
Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: https://site.unibo.it/buscob-microbial-collection/en - Correspondence data:
E-mail: monica.modesto@unibo.it, paola.mattarelli@unibo.it
Tel.: +39 0512096282
Correspondent: Monica Modesto (phone + 39 339 5641473), Paola Mattarelli (phone: +39 3774092688)
Members holdings
Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: bacteria
664 bacterial strains belonging to Bifidobacteriaceae family
Services offered
Strain distribution and deposit.
Research
Taxonomic and functional studies of Bifidobacteria and Lactic Acid Bacteria; animals and humans studies of gut microbiota ; setting up of protocols for metabolic studies of pure cultures and microbial consortium.
Maria Rosaria D'Aimmo, Maria Satti, Donatella Scarafile, Monica Modesto, Stefano Pascarelli, Simone Andrea Biagini, Donata Luiselli, Paola Mattarelli, Thomas Andlid. Folate-producing bifidobacteria: metabolism, genetics, and relevance. Review Microbiome Res Rep. 2023 Dec 12;3(1):11. doi: 10.20517/mrr.2023.59. ECollection 2024.
Monica Modesto 1, Catherine Ngom-Bru 2, Donatella Scarafile 1, Anne Bruttin 2, Solenn Pruvost 2, Shafiqul Alam Sarker 3, Tahmeed Ahmed 3, Olga Sakwinska 2, Paola Mattarelli 1, Stéphane Duboux Bifidobacterium longum subsp. iuvenis subsp. nov., a novel subspecies isolated from the faeces of weaning infants. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023 Oct;73(10). doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006013.
Zheng J., Wittouck S., Salvetti E., Franz C. M.A.P., Harris H. M.B., Mattarelli P., O’Toole P.W., Pot B., Vandamme P., Walter J., Watanabe K., Wuyts S., Felis G.E., Gaenzle M., Lebeer S. A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2020. 70:2782-2858