DAFE-UNIBAS

Università degli Studi della Basilicata

Associated Member

The UBYBCC culture collection includes yeasts and bacteria (isolated from different ecological sources and belonging to different genera and species) of practical interest for several applications in the agri-food, environmental, industrial, and pharmaceutical sectors. The staff of the culture collection has a long and well-tracked experience in microbial ecology, microbiology of fermented foods and beverages (meat, dairy, cereal, vegetable products, wine, beer), industrial microbiology, physiology and genetics of yeasts and bacteria (mainly lactic acid bacteria), predictive microbiology, bioinformatics. The UBYBCC culture collection, additionally, is competent in bio-resources management and associated data. Moreover, it has standard instrumentation for basic microbiological analyses, as well as equipment for the identification, characterization, valorisation, and maintenance of microbial resources. The staff of the UBYBCC culture collection also provides external services such as strain isolation and identification, genetic, metabolic, and functional characterization of strains, formulation and preservation of starter cultures, and bioinformatics consultancy.

Collection:

• UNIBAS Yeasts and Bacteria Culture Collection (acronym UBYBCC) – Culture collection of the Department of Agriculture, Forest, Food and Environmental Sciences of the University of Basilicata

Key people:

• Annamaria Ricciardi
  Associate Professor – Curator of UBYCC collection 
• Teresa Zotta
  Associate Professor – UBYCC collection quality management and documents
• Rocchina Pietrafesa
  Technician –  UBYCC services