BCCM - Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms

BCCM - Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms

Foundation date

26/06/1983

Sector

#Biotechnology / R&D Services

Subsector

• #R&D Services - Analytical services
• #R&D Services - Cell culture
• #R&D Services - CRO (Contract Research Organization)
• #R&D Services - Genomics
• #R&D Services - Screening
• #Other - Environmental
• #Other - Food
• #Other - Industrial Biotechnology
• #Other - Veterinary
• #Professional Services - Information provider
• #Supplier - Laboratory consumables and reagents
• #Public / Non-Profit - Institute

BCCM, your solution partner for providing services of quality in microbial and genetic resources for academia and industry.

The BCCM consortium aims to

• acquire, preserve and distribute fungi, yeasts, diatoms, plasmids, DNA libraries & bacteria in its public collections,

• identify and characterize these biological materials,

• offer customer-oriented services, including preservation of cell lines, hybridomas, viruses, phages, microorganisms and plasmids in its confidential collections

• increase the understanding of microorganisms and their function in ecosystems,

• foster the application of biological resources.

The BCCM consortium unites 7 decentralised biological resource centres with complementary expertise:

• BCCM/DCG Diatoms Collection (Ghent University)

• BCCM/GeneCorner Plasmid Collection (Ghent University)

• BCCM/IHEM Fungi Collection: Human & Animal Health (Sciensano)

• BCCM/ITM Mycobacteria Collection (Institute of Tropical Medicine)

• BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection (Ghent University)

• BCCM/MUCL Agro-food & Environmental Fungal Collection (Université catholique de Louvain)

• BCCM/ULC Cyanobacteria Collection (University of Liège)