Culture Collection of Switzerland
| Culture Collection of Switzerland (CCOS) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG |
| founding | July 7, 2010 |
| Seat | Waedenswil , Switzerland |
| management | S. Landert |
| Number of employees | 3 |
| Branch | Life science |
| Website | www.ccos.ch |
The Culture Collection of Switzerland , or CCOS for short, is the national strain collection for microorganisms and cell cultures in Switzerland . Since it was founded in 2010, it has been conserving and storing biological material from Switzerland and abroad and making it available for diagnostics, research and industry. In addition, the CCOS offers the storage of biological material as backup and for patent purposes and carries out services in the field of microbiology and molecular biology .
history
| history | |
|---|---|
| 2017 | recognized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as an international depository agency |
| 2015 | S. Landert becomes the new CEO of CCOS |
| 2014 | Get new laboratories at Einsiedlerstrasse 34 |
| 2012 | Receives the ISO 9001 certificate |
| 2012 | Member of the Swiss Biotechnology Association (SBA) |
| 2012 | Member of European Culture Collections Organizations (ECCO) |
| 2012 | Member of the World Federation of Culture Collections (WFCC) |
| 2010 | Foundation of the CCOS |
| 2009 | Start of the CCOS as a CTI project at the ZHAW |
| 2007 | Idea to found the CCOS at the SATW Transfer College for Industrial Biotechnology |
The idea for a public collection in Switzerland was developed in 2007 in the SATW Transfer College for Industrial Biotechnology . In 2009 this led to a project under the direction of Martin Sievers at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in cooperation with the Swiss Biotech Association as the main economic partner as well as the Swiss Industrial Biocatalysis Consortium, the biotechnet Switzerland and the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures ( DSMZ) as a scientific partner. The project was funded by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) of the Swiss Confederation and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN).
On July 7, 2010, the CCOS was finally founded by the department at the Institute for Chemistry and Biotechnology (ICBT) as a spin-off of the ZHAW with its own headquarters in Wädenswil in the immediate vicinity of the Reidbach campus. CCOS has been ISO 9001 quality management certified since 2012 and is a member of the European Culture Collections Organization (ECCO) and the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC).
organization
The CCOS is active in the Bio Resources area and in the customer-oriented confidential areas Bio Storage and Bio Services . These services support the expansion of the public strain collection with microbial strains for science and research.
Bio Resources
The strain collection maintains over 2000 microorganisms from research, the environmental and food industries with biosafety level 1 and 2. The CCOS also has over 1000 clinically relevant germs from Fritz H. Kayser from the University of Zurich, which were isolated between 1967 and 1980. Researchers can deposit their strains in the public collection for the new description of type strains or for scientific publications and receive a certificate for this.
Bio storage
Biological material that is part of a patent can be deposited in the master collection at CCOS before the first patent application is filed. Since 2017, the CCOS has been recognized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as an international depository agency . This enables microorganisms and cell cultures to be deposited with the CCOS in accordance with the guidelines of the Budapest Treaty . The long-term storage of biological material that has been cryopreserved is done in special ultra-low temperature freezers (minus 80 ° C) or in liquid nitrogen in Dewar tanks (minus 196 ° C). The CCOS maintains temperature-monitored systems in a non-public collection, in which laboratories and other research institutions can store their samples as a backup.
Bio Services
The CCOS can perform a variety of services through the working methods of the trunk collection. These are for example the production of screening plates , the culture production of starter cultures or the antibiotic resistance measurement according to ISO 10932.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CTI project. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ CCOS | History. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ ECCO member data. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ WFCC member data. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ CCOS | Bio resources. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ CCOS | Bio storage. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ CCOS | Bio Services. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .