Collaboration

Bacteria	Fungi Human & Animal Health	Agro-food & Environmental Fungi	Plasmids & DNA libraries

Bacteria

BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection

BCCM/LMG offers its biological resources and technical expertise for scientific collaborations

at national and international level
with academics and/or industry
in a project consortium or bilateral context

Possible research themes for such collaborations include, but are not limited to:

Bacterial preservation
Assessing culturable microbial diversity in a wide range of environments
Bioprospecting
Bioassays for antibacterial activity screening
Diversity and taxonomy of plant-pathogens
Food bacteriology: process contaminants, spoilers and (functional) starter cultures (with emphasis on lactic acid bacteria and acetic acid bacteria)
Intestinal microbiota in health and disease (with emphasis on bifidobacteria)

Fungi

BCCM/IHEM Fungi collection: Human & Animal Health

We are strongly interested in research collaborations in the following fields:

Taxonomy and phylogeny of medically relevant fungi
Diagnosis, surveillance and prevention of mycoses
Dermatophytes
Development of new diagnostic or identification methods
Antifungal resistance
Allergenic species

Partnerships with industry or academics are envisaged and research can be conducted on a contractual basis or in partnership in publicly funded scientific projects.

BCCM/MUCL Agro-food & Environmental Fungal Collection

Contractual and collaborative research:

Research that aligns with our missions to preserve and to characterize fungal resources and diversity and to foster their application will be considered.

Collaborations could take the form of field work or laboratory-based studies in bilateral or multi-partner projects at the request of private companies, government organizations or individual researchers.

The collaborative character is to be addressed in funding mechanisms, intellectual property ownership, patent- and other scientific publications.

Collaborations typically lead to the realisation of publicly funded scientific projects that generate public domain data and knowledge while contract research typically generates access-restricted knowledge.

BCCM strives for long term and interdisciplinary partnerships.

Contact: Stephan Declerck

Plasmids

BCCM/GeneCorner Plasmid Collection

Contractual research projects are conducted in strict confidentiality and are offered on a long or short term basis. Our specific research interests are described in About us.

Contact BCCM/LMBP.