UNIPA

University of Palermo

Associated Member

The Research Collection of the University of Palermo (RC-UNIPA) consists of microorganisms collected by three departments: the Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences (SAAF), the Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), and the Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Childcare and Internal Medicine “Giuseppe D’Alessandro” (PROMISE). RC provides an updated database, which is directly accessible for internal use and indirectly for academic community, research institutes and companies, to browse all available microorganisms (approximately it includes 1,500 bacteria, 100 filamentous fungi, 300 yeast strains, 100 virus isolates) and associated metadata. This platform ensures legal compliance in terms of management of the collection and Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) of the preserved resources. Besides characterization, valorization, and maintenance of microbial resources, the expertise of RC staff provides additional external services, such as public and safe deposit of pure cultures of microbial strains, evaluation of the performances of commercial and In-House Diagnostic Tests for human infections, production of customer tailored biodegrading consortia for bioremediation.

Collection:

  • RC-UNIPA – Research Collection of the University of Palermo


Key people:

Scientific Manager

  • Prof. Giuseppe Venturella, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences (SAAF),

Section Referents (in alphabetical order)

  • Prof. Valeria Alduina, Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF)
  • Prof. Patrizia Bella, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences (SAAF).
  • Prof. Giuseppe Gallo, Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF)
  • Prof. Giovanni Giammanco, Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Childcare and Internal Medicine “Giuseppe D’Alessandro” (PROMISE).
  • Prof. Luca Settanni, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences (SAAF). 
  • Prof. Paola Quatrini, Department of Earth and Marine Sciences (DiSTeM).

Curator

  • Rosa Guarcello, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences (SAAF).


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