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Il potenziamento della collezione UMCC e la
creazione di una biobanca di microbiomi
The enhancement of the UMCC collection and the creation of a microbiome biobank
SUS-MIRRI.IT, Strengthening the MIRRI Italian Research Infrastructure for Sustainable Bioscience and
Bioeconomy, is a project for research, services and training in the field of microbial resources and aims
to strengthen the network of Italian biobanks, which represent the main facilities for the study and supply
of organisms for basic and applied research and industrial production. The SUS-MIRRI.IT project has 15
partners and is coordinated by the University of Turin. Unimore is one of the founding members of the Joint
Research Unit MIRRI-IT, the Italian microbial collections facility dedicated to research and public service
provision of microorganisms, mainly viruses, plasmids, bacteria, fungi and microalgae. Through the UMCC
- Unimore Microbial Culture Collection - (https://www.umcc.unimore.it/) located at the Department of Life
Sciences (Reggio Emilia campus), it participates in all the activities of the project, which will be supported by
funding under the NRRP programme, amounting to over 930,000 euro. Microbiomes represent innovative
and frontier tools to address current and future critical issues in agriculture, environment, food production,
animal and human health. This project will enable the acquisition of essential tools for the enhancement of
the UMCC collection and the creation of a microbiome biobank.
US-MIRRI.IT è un progetto di cosiddette biobanche e sono il luogo fisico di con-
ricerca, servizi e formazione servazione dei microrganismi. Rappresentano le
nel campo delle risorse micro- principali strutture deputate allo studio e fornitura
biche. Acronimo di Stren- degli organismi a scopo di ricerca di base, applica-
Sgthening the MIRRI Italian ta e produzione industriale. Il progetto SUS-MIRRI.
Research Infrastructure for Sustainable Bio- IT, che conta 15 partners ed è coordinato dall’U-
science and Bioeconomy, SUS-MIRRI.IT ha niversità degli studi di Torino, agisce assicuran-
l’obiettivo di rafforzare la rete di biobanche do l’armonizzazione delle procedure necessarie
italiane. Le collezioni microbiche rientrano fra le a soddisfare gli standard di qualità internazionali
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