Salient Features

  • A unique nonprofit resource center dedicated to the isolation, collection, preservation and distribution of authentic cultures of industrially important microorganisms. 
  • A facility performing research to ensure authenticity of the materials in the culture collection and improving the methods of maintenance, preservation and distribution of these materials. 
  • A facility aiming at strengthening the science related to industrial microbiology and offering contract research services. 
  • A facility serving as the training center in the area of isolation and preservation of industrially important strains.