Transfer of Methanogens and Anaerobes from OCM to ATCC

该奖项为产甲烷菌和互养菌的类型和其他菌株以及其他严格的厌氧细菌从俄勒冈州产甲烷菌保藏中心（OCM）转移到美国典型培养物保藏中心（ATCC）提供支持，该保藏中心是美国和其他地方最大和最重要的细菌保藏中心之一。转让后，俄勒冈州甲烷菌收集将停止由于即将退休的主任，谁是该奖项的主要研究者。ATCC细菌学保藏中心目前包括超过20000种菌株，但包含在俄勒冈州保藏中心发现的类型的菌株很少。 这些菌株通常难以培养、储存和分发。 除了OCM之外，只有一个保藏中心，德国国家保藏中心（Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH）目前包括大量的这些微生物。 拟议活动的知识价值是保存菌株和OCM所采用的这些严格厌氧细菌的生长、储存和分布的标准化方法。 这一项目的更广泛影响是在美国菌种保藏中心安全储存产甲烷菌和其他厌氧菌的储备培养物，从而便利将这些菌株分发给美国的实验室，并提高其未来可用性的前景。

This award provides support for the transfer of type and other strains of methanogenic and syntrophic bacteria, and other fastidiously strict anaerobic bacteria from the Oregon Collection of Methanogens (OCM) to the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), which operates one of the largest and most important collections of bacteria in the US and elsewhere. Following the transfer, the Oregon Collection of Methanogens will cease due to the imminent retirement of the director, who is principal investigator of this award. The ATCC bacteriology collection currently includes over 20000 strains, but contains few strains of the types found in the Oregon collection. Such strains are unusually difficult to culture, store and distribute. In addition to the OCM, only one collection, the German national collection (Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH) presently includes substantial numbers of these microbes. The intellectual value of the proposed activity is the preservation of strains and of the standardized methods for the growth, storage and distribution of these strictly anaerobic bacteria that have been employed by OCM. The broader impacts of this project are the secure storage of stock cultures of methanogenic and other anaerobic bacteria at ATCC, thereby facilitating the distribution of these strains to laboratories in the United States and enhancing prospects for their future availability.