| Registered Number | 133 |
| Acronym | CBS |
| Full Name | Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Filamentous fungi and Yeast Collection |
| Institution | CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre |
| ISO Standard | ISO 9001:2007 |
| Correspondent | Dr. Gerard J. M. Verkley |
| Postal Address | Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht,Utrecht,Utrecht,P.O.Box 85167, 3508 AD |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Telephone 1 | (31) 30-21 22 600 |
| Fax 1 | (31) 30-25 12 097 |
| E-mail 1 | g.verkleij@cbs.knaw.nl |
| Homepage | http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/ |
| Status | Semi-governmental |
| Sponsor | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| Ministry of Education and Arts and Science |
| Director | Prof. P.W. Crous |
| Curator | Dr. Gerard J.M. Verkley (Head of collection) |
| Dr. Marizeth Groenewald (yeast) | |
| Number of Staff |
Assistants (18) Mycology (10) Computer specialist (1) Total (29) |
| Subjects | Freeze drying |
| Systematics and taxonomy | |
| Molecular biology | |
| Culture and preservation methods | |
| Medical microbiology | |
| Evolution biology |
| Method and category of cultures | Freeze-dry(Fungi) | ||||
| Subculturing(Fungi) | |||||
| dynamic gas phase(Fungi) | |||||
| oil-sealed(Fungi, emergency collection) | |||||
| Control of the culture | check by specialists on identify | ||||
| check on viability and purity | |||||
| check on properties | |||||
| DNA sequencing (ITS and LSU nrDNA) | |||||
| Deposit | Mainly to our 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 | |||||
| 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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| Fungi | 63000 | 0 | |||
| Yeasts | 9000 | 0 | |||
| Number of strains in 2012 | 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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| Fungi | |||||||
| Yeasts | |||||||
| Availability | free to contributing institutes |
| exchange with every scientist offering strains of interest to CBS | |
| fee for Universities and educational institutes: 65.00 Euro ; for others: 150.00 Euro |
| Services | Patent deposits(Fungi, Yeasts, Bacteria) |
| Storage service(Fungi, Yeasts, Bacteria) | |
| Distribution(Fungi, Yeasts, Bacteria) | |
| Identification(Fungi, Yeasts, Bacteria) | |
| Training | Systematics |
| Medical mycology | |
| Food borne fungi | |
| Consulation about | Patent deposits |
| Preservation | |
| Other Service | Mycobank: nomenclatural database, deposit of new names, species banks |
| Date of Entry | 1981-10-26 |
| Date of Reply | 2012-07-13 |
| Bacteria Fungi |