CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Rescue of two orphaned yeast collections

加州大学戴维斯分校的法夫酵母培养库用于酵母生理学、酵母生态学(特别是酵母-昆虫联合)、比较基因组学和分类学的基础研究，包括发现新的酵母物种。酵母收集也被用于应用研究，包括研究食品和饮料发酵、食品腐败、生物燃料探索，以及开发改进的方法来识别导致人类感染的酵母。该奖项将资助两个现有藏品的转移，即来自锡拉丘兹大学的Starmer藏品和来自田纳西州立大学的Ganter藏品。法夫酵母培养库是世界上第四大公开酵母库，拥有7000多个菌株。共有4000个酵母菌株将被转移到加州大学戴维斯分校，将法夫收藏的规模扩大50%。此外，项目工作人员还参加了一年一度的加州大学戴维斯分校生物多样性博物馆日，这一活动吸引了参观者参观酵母展品，了解来自酵母和培养收藏的微生物学和社会效益。在这个项目中，Starmer和Ganter的收藏品将被运往加州大学戴维斯分校，在那里它们将被冷冻保存，通过核糖体测序重新鉴定，异地存档，添加到Phaff收藏数据库，DNA序列将存储在GenBank中。所有三个收藏品都包括许多未被描述的物种，在某些情况下，还包括某些物种唯一已知的代表。像这样地理上和分类上不同的酵母收藏现在几乎不可能重新收集。一旦转移完成，全球科学界将可以获得合并后的收集。通过在基因库中公布种质的DNA序列，并扩大法夫种质资源在线目录(http://phaffcollection.ucdavis.edu)，)上的现有信息，该种质资源对所有用户来说将更加明显和有价值。

The Phaff Yeast Culture Collection at the University of California Davis is used for basic research on yeast physiology, yeast ecology (especially yeast-insect associations), comparative genomics, and taxonomy, including discovery of new yeast species. Yeast collections are also used for applied research, including study of food and beverage fermentation, food spoilage, biofuels exploration, and the development of improved methods to identify yeasts that cause human infections. This award will fund the transfer of two existing collections, the Starmer collection from Syracuse University and the Ganter collection from Tennessee State University. The Phaff Yeast Culture Collection is the fourth largest public yeast collection in the world, with over 7000 strains. A total of 4000 yeast strains will be transferred to UC Davis, expanding the size of the Phaff collection by 50 percent. In addition, the project staff participate in an annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, which attracts visitors to the yeast exhibits to learn about microbiology and societal benefits derived from yeasts and culture collections.In this project, the Starmer and Ganter collections will be shipped to UC Davis where they will be cryopreserved, re-identified by ribosomal sequencing, archived off-site, added to the Phaff collection database, and DNA sequences will be deposited in GenBank. All three collections include numerous undescribed species, and in some cases, the only known representatives of certain species. Geographically and taxonomically diverse yeast collections like this are now virtually impossible to re-collect. Once the transfer is complete, the combined collection will be available to the global scientific community. By posting DNA sequences of accessions in GenBank and expanding information available on the Phaff collection online catalog (http://phaffcollection.ucdavis.edu), the collection will be more visible and valuable for all users.