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Member holdings

Groups of biological resources stored in the collection: filamentous fungiyeasts, other genomic DNA, fungal genomic DNA

Services offered

  • Long term preservation of fungal strains for safe and public deposit
  • Isolation and identification of fungi from different substrates (polyphasic approach)
  • Distribution of fungal cultures for research and biotechnological applications
  • Teaching and training

    • Research

  • Isolation, morphological and molecular characterization and ex situ preservation of fungal species belonging to different ecophysiological groups (saprotrophic ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, mycophilic fungi, endophytic fungi, airborne fungi, foodborne fungi, etc)
  • Screening of fungal strains for their properties in order to be used in biotechnological applications