- Collection name: Culture Collection of Porto
- Acronym: CCP
- WDCM number: 1252
- Institution: Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto
- Location:
Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228
4050-313 Porto
Portugal - Website: https://ccp.ff.up.pt
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/culture-collection-of-porto/ - Correspondent:
Luísa Peixe, coordinator
e-mail: lpeixe@ff.up.pt
tel.: (+351) 220 428 580
Teresa Gonçalves Ribeiro, curator
e-mail: tribeiro@ff.up.pt
tel.: (+351) 220 428 589email: ccporto@ff.up.pt; ccp.ff.up@gmail.com
Member holdings
- Public collection: 150 bacterial strains (16 type strains) from risk group 1 and 2
- Private collection: >3000 bacterial strains (diverse genera and origins) mainly from antimicrobial resistance & human microbiome research
Services offered
- Supply of cultures
- Preservation of bacterial cultures
- Deposit of strains for public access or for safekeeping
- Publicly accessible website that provides on-line search of the information on the cultures preserved in CCP.
- Bacterial Isolation, Identification (molecular and morphological approaches), Authentication, Typing, Characterization
- Consulting and training
Research
- Antimicrobial resistance FTIR Spectroscopy for Bacterial Typing: A Novel Approach
- Genito-urinary microbiome role in health and disease
- FTIR Spectroscopy for Bacterial Typing: A Novel Approach
- Identification, characterization and preservation of bacteria
- Optimization of cultivation and preservation protocols for fastidious bacteria
- Exploring bacterial diversity and its biotechnological potential
Quality Management System
FTIR Spectroscopy for Bacterial Typing: A Novel Approach