UNITO

University of Torino

Partner

The Turin University Culture Collection (TUCC) was born from the union of the microorganism collections present in four departments of the University of Turin: Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology (DBIOS), Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), Department of Public Health and Paediatrics (DSSPP), Department of Veterinary Science (DSV). With a centralized online platform, TUCC provides a continuously updated database that enables users from the academic community, research institutes, and the bioindustry to browse all available microorganisms and associated metadata. To date, TUCC manages approximately 9000 strains of bacteria, filamentous fungi and yeasts of environmental, agronomic, industrial and clinical interest, also hosting risk class 2 organisms. TUCC allows promoting the biotechnological potential of the preserved microorganisms and the expertise of the personnel working in the different facilities and, furthermore, guarantees the correct management of complex procedures from a legal point of view to comply with all national and international regulations regarding access, distribution and exploitation of genetic resources. Beside characterization, valorisation and maintenance of microbial resources, the expertise of TUCC staff provides additional external services such as strain isolation, identification, purification and various analyses ranging from genetic/metabolic microorganism profiling to bioinformatics consultancy. Finally, courses, workshops and other formative activities in the field of microbiology are frequently organised for the training of both internal personnel and external users.

TUCC has a long tradition of interacting with the industrial world and participates in the MIRRI ERIC infrastructure by collaborating on several international projects.

Collection:

• TUCC – Turin University Culture Collection

Key people:

• Prof. Luca Simone Cocolin
  MiAGR – Food, agricultural and environmental microbiology
• Prof. Davide Carmelo Spadaro
  MiAGR – Agricultural and post-harvest plant pathology
• Prof. Paolo Gonthier
  MiAGR – Forestry and environmental plant pathology
• Prof. Cristina Costa
  MiBAT
  
• Prof. Narcisa Mandras
  MiBAT
• Prof. Patrizia Nebbia
  MiVET – Veterinary clinical microbiology and microbiology of foods of animal origin
• Prof. Andrea Peano
  MiVET – Parasitology
• Prof. Giovanna Cristina Varese
  MUT