News | Page 8 | BCCM Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms

Bedaquiline- and clofazimine-resistant Mycobacterium tuberuclosis reference strains available in public collection of mycobacterial strains BCCM/ITM

16/12/2014

The global burden of multi-drug tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was estimated in 2013 at 5.3% of TB cases, including 9% with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB)¹. Only 48% of MDR cases were treated successfully, in part due to high toxicity, the long duration of the current regimens, and drug supply interruptions. To overcome these constraints, new TB drugs were deemed essential and have been developed, yet their safety and efficacy are being assessed in Phase II and III clinical trials for patients with MDR-TB.

Exhibition SPORAE. So much rooms

05/11/2014

On 18 and 19 October 2014 it’s the Mushroom Festival in Louvain-la-Neuve!

13/10/2014

Join us and immerse yourself in the fascinating world of fungi through walks, exhibitions, films, tastings, children's entertainment...

This event, for all ages, will be in French. All activities are free, but pay attention that some require a reservation!

Working out ABS: ICC Conference on EU Regulation on Access and Benefit Sharing – 24-25 November, Paris, France

10/10/2014

Biological control agents: from field to market, problems, and challenges

30/09/2014

New publication by Siva L.S. Velivelli, Paul De Vos, Peter Kromann,Stephane Declerck, Barbara D. Prestwich in Trends in Biotechnology

This article focuses on the problems and challenges encountered when introducing biological control agents on the market. The role that culture collections, such as the BCCM collections, can play in this process is described.

BCCM/IHEM organises a course on fungi of the environment from 29 September until 3 October 2014

24/09/2014

From the 29^th of September until the 3th of October, training in Mycology is organised at BCCM/IHEM. This one week training is focusing on Fungi of the human environment and includes a theoretical part as well as practical training in the laboratory.

Interested in such a training? Need more details?
Please contact us at bccm.ihem@wiv-isp.be

Human ORFeome v8.1 available at LMBP - over 12.000 human genes in Gateway Entry vectors

26/06/2014

The hORFv8.1 database consists of a sequence-verified, clonal collection of human Open Reading Frames (ORFs), presented as Gateway Entry vectors (backbone: pDONR223). All clones come without a termination codon, allowing the addition of C-terminal tags or markers.

BCCM/LMBP provides this large collection as individual plasmids, and offers a range of compatible Gateway Destination vectors, aiming to satisfy your imagination for your experimental set-ups.

See the BCCM/LMBP ORFeome v8.1 entry plasmids catalogue here.

Historic in vivo cloning collection of Prof. Max Mergeay (SCK.CEN) now available at BCCM/LMBP!

17/03/2014

This collection from the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK.CEN) provides historical reference plasmids for various incompatibility families. The collection also includes a set of bacterial host strains meant for cloning and in vitro packaging of and/or working with phages.

BCCM's involvement in the European Culture Collections

07/02/2014

Since many years, the BCCM consortium is actively involved in European and international associations of culture collections such as the European Culture Collections' Organisation (ECCO) and the World Federation of Culture Collections (WFCC).

Toolkit for rapid and efficient generation of transgenic mice: RMCE-compatible plasmids + G4 ROSALUC mouse ES cells

06/02/2014

Prof. Jody Haig's research group (IRC, VIB, Ghent, Belgium) developed a highly efficient Gateway- and recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE)-compatible system to target conditional and/or inducible constructs to the ROSA26 locus of F1 hybrid Bl6/129 ESCs, called G4 ROSALUC ES cells.
This technology allows researchers to easily create conditional and/or inducible ROSA26 alleles in a time/cost efficient manner.