shared services for life-science
General information
| Full name | Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure |
| Short name | MIRRI |
| Legal status | currently N/A (step 1 submission for MIRRI-ERIC passed, preparing for step 2) |
| Operational status | under development |
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| Coordinating institution (interim) | BELSPO & INRA |
| Coordinator (interim) | Marleen Bosschaerts & Serge Casaregola |
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RI member countries (Construction Phase) | BE, FR, GR, IT, LV, NL, PL, PT, RU, ES |
| Observer | - |
| Website | www.mirri.org |
| Contact | info [at] mirri.org |
National nodes
This sections provides an overview on the national subsidiaries of the RI.
| Name | Contact, website |
MIRRI-BE
| BCCM - Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms
BCCM/DCG Diatoms Collection
BCCM/GeneCorner Plasmid Collection
BCCM/IHEM Fungi Collection: Human and Animal Health
BCCM/ITM Mycobacteria Collection
BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection
BCCM/MUCL Agro-food and Environmental Fungi Collection
BCCM/ULC Cyanobacteria Collection |
| MIRRI-FR | CRBIP - Biological Resource Center of Institut Pasteur research.pasteur.fr/en/team/biological-resources-center/ Mery Pina (mery.pina-hinojosa [at] pasteur.fr)
CIRM - International Centre for Microbial Resources www6.inra.fr/cirm_eng/What-is-CIRM Serge Casaregola (serge.casaregola [at] inra.fr)
Food associated bacteria: Florence Valence, cirm-bia [at] listes.inra.fr Pathogenic bacteria: Emmanuelle Helloin, cirm_bp [at] tours.inra.fr Filamentous fungi: Anne Favel, CIRM_CF [at] inra.fr Plant associated bacteria: Perrine Portier, cfbp [at] angers.inra.fr Yeasts: Serge Casaregola, cirm [at] grignon.inra.fr |
| MIRRI-GR | HMRCN - Hellenic Microbial Resource Collections Network Amalia D. Karagouni (akar [at] biol.uoa.gr) Efstathios A. Katsifas (skatsi [at] biol.uoa.gr)
ATHUBA Athens University Culture Collection of Bacteria & Archaea (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
ACA-DC Collection (Agricultural University of Athens)
ATHUM Collection (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
UOA/HCPF Hellenic Collection of Pathogenic Fungi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
BPIC Collection (Benaki Phytopathological Institute of Athens) |
| MIRRI-IT | Giovanna Cristina Varese (cristina.varese [at] unito.it
TUCC Turin University Culture Collection, including MUT (Mycotheca Universitatis Taurinensis
CNR National Research Council, including ITEM Agro-Food Microbial Culture Collection, PLAVIT Plant Virus Italy
DBVPG Industrial Yeasts Collections (University of Perugia)
UMCC University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Microbial Culture Collection
USMI University Hospital San Martino, including Interlab Cell Line Collection |
| MIRRI-LV | MSCL Microbial Strain Collection of Latvia Daina Eze (daina.eze [at] lu.lv) |
| MIRRI-NL | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute www.westerdijkinstitute.nl/Collections/
CBS Collection of yeasts and filamentous fungi Fungi: Gerard Verkleij, g.verkleij [at] westerdijkinstitute.nl. Yeast: Marizeth Groenewald, m.groenewald [at] westerdijkinstitute.nl
Netherlands Culture Collection of Bacteria NCCB |
| MIRRI-PL | IAFB Collection of Industrial Microorganisms Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology Justyna Nasilowska, nasilowska [at] ibprs.pl
PCM Polish Collection of Microorganisms Hirszfeld Institute and Experimental Therapy PAS Anna Misiewicz, anna.misiewicz [at] hirszfeld.pl
KPD-UG University of Gdansk Anna Karina Kaczorowska, anna.kaczorowska [at] ug.edu.pl |
| MIRRI-PT | Pt-mBRCN Portuguese microBiological Resource Centre Network Nelson Lima, nelson [at] ie.uminho.pt
ACOI www.mbrcn.pt/directory/acoi (Coimbra)
LEGE-CC lege.ciimar.up.pt/search/ (Porto)
MUM www.micoteca.deb.uminho.pt/en/ (Braga)
PYCC pycc.bio-aware.com.Defaultinfo.aspx (Caparica)
UCCCB www.uc.pt/en/uid/ucccb (Coimbra) |
| MIRRI-RU | Alexander Vasilenko, vanvkm [at] gmail.com
VKM All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms RAS Alexander Vasilenko, vanvkm [at] gmail.com
UNIQEM Collection of Unique and Extromophilic Microorganisms Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology www.fbras.ru/services/ckp/tskp-kollektsiya-uniqem
IEGM Regional Specialised Collection of Alkanotrophic Microorganisms
VKPM Russian National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms |
| MIRRI-ES | Rosa Aznar, raznar [at] cect.org
CECT Spanish Type Culture Collection
BEA Spanish Bank of Algae |
Description of the organisation
MIRRI-ERIC provides a unique access point to biological resources, related information, services and expertise of 35 microbial resource centres (mBRCs) located in 10 countries. This means that about 450.000 resources (such as bacteria -including cyanobacteria-, archaea, fungi, yeasts, plant viruses, bacteriophages and their isolated DNA as well as human, animal and plant cell cultures) can be readily provided to users from academia, health and agriculture authorities, and the bio-industry. Pathogenic material is provided to risk group 2, selected risk group 3 organisms are available from a few mBRCs. In addition MIRRI-ERIC offers unrivalled expertise in the integrated analysis of complex microbial interactions, ranging from the isolation of a specimen from the environment to the description of novel species, deciphering the genomic information and its path to gene expression. Targeted identification of genes of interest for biotechnological exploitation as well as analysis of ‘microbiomes’ make MIRRI-ERIC an interesting partner not only for academic researchers but also for industry and ‘personalized medicine’.
Currently MIRRI-ERIC is under development, but basic services are already available. Full operability as well as the virtual entry point to all services will be achieved once the legal status is established.
Service offer
A list of services offered by MIRRI can be downloaded here.