- Collection name: Microbial Strain Collection of Latvia
- Acronym: MSCL
- WDCM number: 854
- Institution: University of Latvia
- Address:
Jelgavas street 1
LV-1004 Riga
Latvia - Website: https://www.lu.lv/en/mbi/laboratories/microbial-strain-collection-of-latvia
Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: https://www.lu.lv/en/mbi/laboratories/microbial-strain-collection-of-latvia/bacteria/ - Correspondence data:
E-mail: maris.senkovs@lu.lv
Tel.:+371-67033925
Member holdings
Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: bacteria x archaea x cyanobacteria (700), yeasts x filamentous fungi x oomycota x other fungus- like organisms (1000), plasmids (including plasmid bearing strains) (71), eukaryotic algae (4)
These strains are preserved in metabolically inactive states using methods such as liquid nitrogen storage and agar slants under mineral oil at +4°C.
Services offered
Research
MSCL is working together with Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, who are the main partners, on a Latvian Council of Science project titled “Innovative anti-inflammatory and anti-pathogenic systems based on proanthocyanidins isolated from lignocellulosic waste from fruit bush agriculture”, with Latvian Biomedical research and study centre on a Latvian Council of Science project titled “Genomics and transcriptomics guided trait stacking of antagonistic mechanisms utilized by Streptomyces spp. from underexplored strain collection in syncoms against pathogens causing ash dieback and acute oak decline”.
MSCL is involved in the EU Horizon-INFRA-2024-TECH-01 project "MALDIBANK: Multi-domain Open MALDI Spectra Archive for Identification of Microorganisms" together with other MIRRI-ERIC partners.