Maintenance of the ATCC Collection of Living Fungi

自1925年以来，科学界一直认为， 位于马里兰州罗克维尔的典型培养物保藏中心（ATCC）作为标志 提供高质量的活菌培养物， 教育、研究和发展。 质量和由此产生的 科学的信心是在长期的，持续的 以及全世界科学家的巨大努力。 是 唯一的一般服务收集活真菌（包括 酵母菌），由超过23，000种菌株组成 代表了6,000多个物种 在过去的五年里， 共收集了3，767株菌株， 发放 作为一个国家资源中心，收藏的功能包括 不仅是登记、保存、认证， 引用和类型文化的分布， 以及对所保存的每种培养物的数据文件的操作。 它 还充当所有学科的信息交换所 通过传播有关真菌学的信息， 菌株的可用性，命名，分类， 特性，保存技术和应用 真菌培养对人类问题的研究和解决 涉及食品、能源、健康和环境污染。 根据美国食品药品监督管理委员会制定的ATCC章程， 受托人，代表超过10万名专业人士的生活 科学，真菌培养收集将继续追求 ATCC的使命是收集所有命名的真菌分类群 以及对当代具有科学意义的菌株 研究，特别是生物技术，并提高质量 采购和与采购有关的服务效率 收藏. 该奖项为ATCC提供部分运营补贴， 其服务功能，以国家和国际真菌 研究社区。

The scientific community has, since 1925, recognized the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) in Rockville, Maryland, as a symbol of top quality in providing living fungus cultures for use in education, research and development. The quality and the resulting scientific confidence have been achieved after a long, continuous and substantial effort by scientists throughout the world. It is the only general service collection of living fungi (including yeasts) in the United States, consisting of over 23,000 strains representing more than 6,000 species. During the last five years, a total of 3,767 strains were accessioned and 35,039 cultures were distributed. As a national resource center, the collection's functions include not only the accessioning, preservation, authentication, and distribution of reference and type cultures, but also the creation and manipulation of data files for each culture maintained. It also acts as an information clearing house in all the disciplines of mycology by disseminating information pertaining to the availability of strains, nomenclature, classification, characterization, preservation techniques, and applications of fungus cultures to the study and solution of human problems involving food, energy, health and environmental pollution. In compliance with the ATCC constitution set forth by the Board of Trustees, which represents over 100,000 professionals in the life sciences, the fungal culture collection will continue to pursue the ATCC mission of bringing into the collection all named fungal taxa as well as strains of scientific significance to contemporary research, particularly to biotechnology, and enhancing the quality of acquisitions and the efficiency of services associated with the collection. This award provides a partial operational subsidy to the ATCC for its service functions to the national and international fungal research community.