| Registered Number | 779 |
| Acronym | HAMBI |
| Full Name | HAMBI Culture Collection |
| Institution | Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki |
| Correspondent | Pekka Oivanen |
| Postal Address | P.O.Box 56, Viikinkaari 9, Biocenter 1,,University of Helsinki,FI-00014 |
| Country | Finland |
| Telephone 1 | (358) 9-19159311 |
| Telephone 2 | (358) 9-19159282 |
| Fax 1 | (358) 9-19159322 |
| E-mail 1 | PEKKA.OIVANEN@HELSINKI.FI |
| E-mail 2 | KRISTINA.LINDSTROM@HELSINKI.FI |
| Homepage | http://www.helsinki.fi/hambi/ |
| Status | University |
| Sponsor | University of Helsinki |
| Director | Kristina Lindstrom |
| Curator | Pekka Oivanen(Curator) |
| Number of Staff |
Bacteriology(1) Assistants(1) |
| Subjects | Agriculture |
| Applied microbiology | |
| Culture and preservation methods | |
| Ecology | |
| Environmental protection | |
| Food science | |
| General microbiology | |
| Genetic engineering | |
| Industrial microbiology | |
| Fermentation | |
| Freeze drying | |
| Systematics and taxomy | |
| Veternity |
| Method and category of cultures | Freeze-dry(Bacteria) | ||
| Liquid N2(Fungi) | |||
| Control of the culture | Vacuum test of ampoules | ||
| Test of variability of strain | |||
| DNA fingerprinting for some strains growth,purity,morphology | |||
| Number of Strains | Strain Name | total | country |
| Bacteria | 1700 | 0 | |
| Fungi | 35 | 0 | |
| Yeasts | 66 | 0 | |
| Viruses: bacteria | 12 | 0 | |
| Deposit | Mainly to our collection | ||
| Mainly to collections in our country | |||
| 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 | |||
| the collection abroad | DSMZ(Germany) | ||
| the collection abroad | CBS(Netherlands) | ||
| the collection abroad | BCCM(Belgium) | ||
| Availability | Fee for 30 EUR in University of Helsinki, others 40 EUR |
| Services | Storage services |
| Distribution | |
| Identification(Certain Bacterial Groups) | |
| Training | Culture and preservation methods |
| Use of computers in culture collections | |
| Consulation about | Preservation |
| Date of Entry | 1998-06-22 |
| Date of Reply | 2011-06-15 |