-BCCM/ULC- | ECCO

Collection name: BCCM/ULC culture collection of (sub)polar cyanobacteria
Acronym: BCCM/ULC
WDCM number: 982
Institution:University of Liège
Address:
Chemin de la Vallée, 4
4000 Liège
Belgium
Website: https://bccm.belspo.be/about-ULC
Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: https://bccm.belspo.be/ULC-catalogue-search
Twitter/X: @BccmCollections
LinkedIn: https://be.linkedin.com/company/bccm-belgian-coordinated-collections-of-microorganisms
BlueSky: @bccmcollections.bsky.social‬
Instagram: bccm_collections
Correspondence data:
E-mail: bccm.ulc@uliege.be
Tel.: +32 4 366 33 87
Correspondent: Annick Wilmotte (awilmotte@uliege.be)

Member holdings

Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: cyanobacterial living strains, cyanobacterial genomic DNA

Cyanobacterial living strains, with subcollections including ‘Polar, subpolar, alpine’, “Reference (Type) Strains”, “Local strains (Belgium)”

Services offered

• Public and safe deposits

• Distribution of strains included in the catalogue to profit and non-profit organizations

• Distribution of culture media

• Trainings in isolation, cultivation and characterization of cyanobacterial strains

• Trainings in bioinformatics

• Services of morphological evaluation, molecular characterization, bioinformatics, DNA extraction, detection of cyanotoxin genes by PCR, on request, consultancy

Research

• Molecular ecology of Antarctic cyanobacteria (10.3389/fmicb.2024.1316633)

• Screening for bioactive compounds (https://doi.org/10.3390/w14162470)

• Ecophysiology of strains under stresses (UV, temperature, dessication)(10.1111/jpy.13436)

• Bioinformatics (10.1093/gigascience/giad022)

• Taxonomy of Cyanobacteria (https://doi.org/10.3390/w14162470, https://doi.org/10.3390/d15080909)

Quality Management System

ISO 9001:2015 Scope: Accession, control, preservation, storage and supply of biological material and related information in the frame of public deposits, safe deposits and patent deposits.