-LCP- | ECCO

Collection name: Fungal Strain Collection, Laboratory of Cryptogamy
Acronym: LCP
WDCM number: 659
Institution: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Address:
CP39, 12 rue Buffon
F75005 Paris
France
Website: https://www.mnhn.fr/en/fungal-strain-collection
Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/rf/item/search
Correspondence data:
E-mail: coralie.pavesi1@mnhn.fr
Tel.: +33 1 40 79 31 33
Correspondent: Coralie Pavesi

Member holdings

Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: yeasts, filamentous fungi, oomycota, other fungus-like organisms.

The Fungal Strain Collection, Laboratory of Cryptogamy contains more than 6000 fungal strains (including 350 types for species) belonging to 1425 different species.

Services offered

Public/confidential deposit

Distribution

Training

Service of expertise in morphological and genomic identification

Research

The research projects led by the fungal strain collection LCP involve:

• the discovery of new fungal strains isolated from marine habitats,

• the study of the chemodiversity produced by those fungal strains.

The collection is involved in the research program ATLASea (an atlas of marine genomes).