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Culture Collections are a critical part of life science infrastructure and they are right up there with the importance of the internet; peer review and government funding Kyria Boundy-Mills

Why should you get your research materials form a culture collection? Kyria Boundy-Mills explains about Quality (viability; purity; identity) Reproducibility; compliance (Nagyoa; IP; IATA) Data; Selection #WorldMicrobeForum

Kyria Boundy-Mills Highlights to the #WorldMicrobeForum delegates - "if you are sequencing microbial genomes - please consider either getting your organisms from a culture collection repository or depositing your agents into one" - GREAT ADVICE

Why are there so many different culture collections? Because different organisms have different properties. Did you know there is a collection Uni Of Kentucky which houses 9 genetic lines of axolotl Kyria Boundy-Mills #WorldMicrobeForum

What are the costs of operating a culture collection? Kyria Boundy-Mills explains the following costs- accessioning; QA; QC; database and website maintenance; compliance; training; order fulfilment; shipping; workshops; newsletters etc.

Great tip from Kyria Boundy-Mills - Contact your favourite culture collection - and see how you can be an advocate for them? All The National Collection of Type Cultures depositors, strain users and collaborators are welcome to contact us - we can include your story in our newsletter #WorldMicrobeForum

Why not deposit in a culture collection? V. important. Cited in publication; type strain of new species; invested in omics work; is/could immediate access be needed; classical mutations - all good reasons and more Kyria Boundy-Mills #WorldMicrobeForum

Fabulous presentation by Kyria Boundy-Mills highlighting the huge value of culture collections at #WorldMicrobeForum - its recorded - so please make some time to watch it and make notes! Remember culture collections put the life in to the life sciences

University of Michigan is hiring a collections manager for the fungal collections! Applications due July 16! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/198…

Exciting news: NSF is funding the transfer of Marc-Andre Lachance's yeast collection to UC Davis! These yeasts will be made available to the yeast research community as they join the Phaff collection. news.bftv.ucdavis.edu/food-science-a…

Here's your chance to learn more about yeast, lots of other organisms, and biological collections. Fun, family-friendly, free event at UC Davis Feb 18, 2023. phaffcollection.ucdavis.edu/news/free-fami…

Join our next Science of Alt Protein seminar on Feb 16th where Dr. Kyria Boundy-Mills of UC Davis will share her research on yeasts that convert inexpensive substrates into oils, incl. substitutes for animal fat and tropical oils for meat alternatives. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This coming Thursday Feb 2, the Phaff collection will participate in Exploratorium's weekly evening event After Dark: Wondrous Fungus! If you are in the San Francisco area, please come chat with us about yeast! #exploratorium exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar…

Happening tonight: join Kyria Boundy-Mills - Phaff Collection curator & @USCCN Steering Committee member - for an evening about fungus at the San Francisco Exploratorium

Yeast aren't always easy to classify - but as more genomes are being published, we can use this information to inform our classifications. See this new paper led by Marizeth Groenewald with input from wonderful colleagues in the yeast community: ingentaconnect.com/content/wfbi/s…

The reference genome assembly of the bright cobblestone lichen, Acarospora socialis - doi.org/10.1093/jhered… work from (Stajich Laboratory) and #CCGP California Conservation Genomics Project ccgproject.org

I can guarantee you will learn something new about yeast at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day Saturday Feb 8! #biodiversity #yeast phaffcollection.ucdavis.edu/news/come-lear…

Nine UC Davis biological collections will have open houses on Saturday February 8! In one day you can see dinosaur fossils, carnivorous plants, stick insects, hawks, and giant tapeworms. And talk to the scientists who study them. #biodiversity #collections biodiversitymuseumday.ucdavis.edu