Registered Number | 591 |
Acronym | NIES |
Full Name | Microbial Culture Collection at National Institute for Environmental Studies |
Institution | National Institute for Environmental Studies |
Correspondent |
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Postal Address | 16-2, Onogawa,Tsukuba,Ibaraki,305-8506 |
Country | Japan |
Telephone 1 | (81) 29 850 2345 |
Telephone 2 | (81) 29 850 2556 |
Fax 1 | (81) 29 850 2587 |
E-mail 1 | kawachi.masanobu@nies.go.jp |
E-mail 2 | mcc@nies.go.jp |
Homepage | http://mcc.nies.go.jp/ |
Status | Semi-governmental |
Sponsor | National Institute for Environmental Studies |
National BioResource Project |
Director |
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Curator | Dr. Haruyo Yamaguchi (Systematics & genomics) |
Dr. Mayumi Sato (Systematics, preservation) | |
Ms. Fumi Mori (Cryopreservation) | |
Mr. Kosei Yumoto (Preservation, DNA analysis) | |
Mrs. Miwa Ishimoto (Macroalgae preservation) | |
Dr. Mary-Helene Noel Kawachi (Preservation) | |
Number of Staff |
Algology (6) Protozoology (1) Assistants (8) Total (15) |
Subjects | Applied microbiology |
Culture and preservation methods | |
Ecology | |
Environmental protection | |
Evolutionary biology | |
Freeze drying | |
General microbiology | |
Marine biology | |
Systematics and taxonomy | |
Environmental science | |
Ex situ conservation of endangered macroalgae |
Method and category of cultures | Liquid N2(particular algal strains) | ||||
Subculturing(most algal strains) | |||||
Control of the culture | Viability check by eyes for subcultured stocks | ||||
Viability check by FDA method for cryopreserved stocks | |||||
Morphology check by microscopic observation | |||||
Check for axenic algal strains by culturing in bacterial medium | |||||
Deposit | to your collection | ||||
Source(s) of strains for people in this country: isolated by or introduced from | Isolation by ourselves | ||||
Personally from the scientists in our country | |||||
From the collections in our country | |||||
From the research institutions in our country | |||||
Number of Strains until now | Type | Holding strains (total number)/(number from your country) |
new species (total number)/(number from your country) |
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Algae | 2841 | 2235 |
Number of strains last year | Type | Holding strains (total number)/(number from your country) |
new species (total number)/(number from your country) |
Microbes distributed (total number)/(in your country) |
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Algae |
Availability | free to Education |
fee for 10000 JPY for universities and public institutions, 20000 JPY for company; plus postal fee |
Services | Distribution |
Consulation about | Preservation |
Propagation | |
Other consultation: Systematics & identification of algae | |
Availability to education and research of algae |
Date of Entry | 2002-08-21 |
Date of Reply | 2018-10-01 |
Algae Bacteria Protozoa |