-HAMBI-
  • Collection name: HAMBI Culture Collection
  • Acronym: HAMBI
  • WDCM number: 779
  • Institution: University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE), Department of Microbiology
  • Address:
    Viikinkaari 9, Biocentre 1, P.O.Box 56
    FI-00014 Helsinki
    Finland
  • Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/hambi/
    Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: http://www.helsinki.fi/hambi/
  • Correspondence data:
    E-mail: pekka.oivanen@helsinki.fi
    Tel.: +358 294 159 311
    Correspondent: Pekka Oivanen

Member holdings

Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: bacteria (3000 strains), archaea (25 strains), cyanobacteria (900 strains), yeasts and filamentous fungi (2735 strains, mostly wood rotting fungi), plasmids (including plasmid bearing strains - some 20 strains), bacteriophages (26 phages), eukaryotic algae (1 strain), ther genomic DNA (fungal DNA storage started / growing)

  • HAMBI consists of three subcollections (see the amounts above):
  • • HAMBI / BAC for bacteria
  • • HAMBI / FBCC for fungi
  • • HAMBI / UHCC for cyanobacteria

    • Services offered

  • HAMBI's services: delivery, deposition (public and confidential), identification, consulting

    • Research

  • HAMBI is situated at the Department of Microbiology at the University of Helsinki. HAMBI is more or less connected to all research going on at the department.