- Institution: Unimore Microbial Culture Collection
- Acronym: UMCC
- Location:
Dept. of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia,Via Amendola, 2
42122 Reggio Emilia
ITALY
- Website: https://www.umcc.unimore.it
- Correspondent:
Prof. Maria Gullo (Scientific Coordinator), email: maria.gullo@unimore.it. Luciana De Vero (Curator), email: luciana.devero@unimore.it.
Tel.: +39 0522522034; +39 0522522057
Fax: +39 0522522027
e-mail: luciana.devero@unimore.it
Members holdings
The UMCC holds about 2700 strains including yeasts, lactic acid bacteria and acetic acid bacteria isolated from must and wines, beer, vinegar, sourdough and other fermented products.
Services offered
- Isolation, characterization and identification of strains
- Distribution of strains and starter cultures
- Public or private deposit
- Teaching and training courses
- Dissemination activities
Research
- Isolation of strains from food and beverages
- Characterization and identification of microbial cultures by poliphasic approach
- Screening and selection of technological and functional properties
- Set-up and implementation of genetic improvement strategies for the development of new phenotypes
- Implementation of starter cultures for food and other industrial applications