- Institution: Center for Microbial Resources dedicated to Yeast
- Acronym: CIRM-Levures
- Location:
CIRM-Levures , Science Pour l’Œnologie Bat 28
Centre de recherche INRAE Montpellier Occitanie
2 place Viala
34060 Montpellier Cedex 02
FRANCE - Website: http://cirm-levures.bio-aware.com/page/Home
- Correspondent:
Head: Jean-Luc Legras
e-mail: cirmlevures@inrae.fr
Member holdings
CIRM-Levures preserves over 5.000 isolates (1801 can be found in the strain catalogue), belonging to 398 species from 75 genera of the Saccharomycotina subphylum and to the Basidiomycota phylum.
The collection contains:
- Yeast strains involved in fermentation, i.e. traditional straters used in winemaking, bakery, brewery, dairy technology and other fermentation industries
- Yeast from various geographical origins (french Guiana, the Reunion and Mayotte islands, Arctic glaciers...), for the study of genetic diversity and evolution, and potentially interesting in biotechnology.
Services offered
- Strain isolation, preservation and distribution
- Molecular taxonomic identification
- Strain deposit (open, or safe)
Research
The CIRM-Levures is part of the Science for Enology research unit (https://www6.montpellier.inrae.fr/spo) and participates to projects in relation with other research teams of the unit , focussing on the study of yeast diversity with genomic approaches.