CECT

• Forms of Deposit  
  • Public deposit:  the strains deposited are available to the national and international scientific community, both in academic and industrial institutions.  Free deposit
  • Restricted deposit:  the distribution of micro-organisms is restricted according to the depositor's instructions.  Any information regarding the deposit, and the nature of the micro-organism, is treated with absolute confidentiality.  Subject to rate.
  • Deposit for patent purposes in accordance with the Budapest Treaty:  strains of bacteria, archaea, filamentous fungi and yeasts.
  • Supply:  types of presentations:
  • Articult 3R:  active crop + reserve.  Ready for immediate use. Normal delivery time less than 15 days.
  • CECT 6R:  reserve cryovials already inoculated.  Freezer storage. Normal delivery time less than 7 days.
  • Lyophilus:  inactive dried culture.  Conservation at room temperature.  It requires opening, hydration and sowing.  Normal delivery time less than 7 days
  • Active cultivation:  ready for immediate use. Normal delivery time less than 15 days
• Identification of eukaryotes (Filamentous Fungi and Yeast) and prokaryotes (Bacteria and Archaea) by phenotypic, genetic-molecular and chemotaxonomic techniques.
• Extraction, conservation and supply of DNA from strains received, or from existing strains in the CECT.
• Post-graduate course at the University of Valencia: "Certificate in Conservation and Control of Microbial Strains" (82.5 hours) with 3 ECTS credits.
• Lyophilisation of samples on request.

INNOVATIVE ASPECTS

• Presentations of easy-to-use strains not usually offered by the collections:  Acticult 3R and CECT 6R. They avoid the recovery step of the strain from the lyophilised and simplify manipulation.
• New identification techniques through chemotaxonomy.
  • MIDI system for the analysis of fatty acids.  Technique very much demand at present for the description of new species of some groups of prokaryotes.
  • Analysis of cellular proteins by MALDI-TOF:  It allows the provision of useful profiles to identify and group together isolated specimens.
• Strains for quality control, in accordance with the UNE-CEN ISO/TS 11133 standard:  the CECT has strains equivalent to the WDCM reference required by the standard.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

• Collection of ample bio-diversity.  Among its more than 7000 strains, it hosts numerous microbial groups of potential bio-technological interest and has expert staff in its cultivation, maintenance and taxonomy.
• Long experience and international activity.  Registered in the World Directory of Cultivation Collections (WDCM) since 1977, and a member of the European Organisation of Cultivation Collections (ECCO) since 1983.
• Since 1992 the only International Depositary Authority (IDA) in Spain, in accordance with the Budapest Treaty, for the deposit of bacteria, archaea, filamentous fungi and yeasts for patent purposes.
• Service of the University of Valencia since 1991, certified for the ISO 9001:  2000 and ISO 9001: 2008 standards, currently in the process of implementing the OECD quality standards for Biological Resource Centres (BRC).

• As reference strains for:
  • Quality controls in which micro-organisms intervene.
  • Clinical studies.
  • Taxonomic
  • Educational purposes.
•  In bio-remediation of soil and water, and to obtain bio-fuels.
• In the agri-food field:
  • In bio-technological processes of any kind in which micro-organisms intervene, from the classic fermentations to the obtaining of numerous chemical products.
  • As growth promoters and to increase soil fertility.
  • For biological pest control
  • As probiotics.
  • As nutraceuticals.

• Agri-food, clinical, bio-technological, pharmaceutical, environmental, cosmetic, tanning, manufacturers of culture media, metal, plastic, chemical, etc.