Madonna, Mass Consumption and Microbes

by Edward Green, CEO, NCIMB At NCIMB, we believe microbes can provide sustainable solutions to the big issues of our time. With NCIMB gearing up to attend and present at the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association event in May, ‘The power of microbes and the development of the circular bioeconomy’, I asked myself, are we on the brink of a fifth revolution, the ultimate BioRevolution, and how can NCIMB’s diverse microbial biorepository help towards reversing climate change and other societal challenges including disease outbreaks, food shortages, fuel poverty, loss of …

We’ll be at the IbioIC annual conference! 15 – 16 March 2023

Dr Edward Green and Dr Jude Huggan will be heading to the IbioIC annual conference next week, The two day event, which is held in Glasgow, has the theme “Resilience and the Bioeconomy”, and will explore the twin topics of resilience as it pertains to companies working within the bioeconomy and how the bioeconomy itself can contribute to resilience in industry and society in general. NCIMB’s CEO Dr Edward Green will be presenting in the member showcase on Wednesday 15 March, where he will highlight NCIMB’s offering to the industrial …

Novel Pseudomonas species added to NCIMB catalogue

A novel species of Pseudomonas has recently been added to the National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria by scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife. The strain, NCIMB 15426 Pseudomonas uvaldensis sp. nov., which is now available to order from NCIMB, was isolated from an onion bulb and is noted to cause onion bulb rot.  For more information see the strain entry in our catalogue and a paper describing the strain which was published earlier this year. Khanal M, Timilsina S, Bhatta BP, Bophela K, Coutinho T, Cochran K, Malla …

Download the A-Z of NCIMB to learn more about the diversity in our collection

The name of our culture collection – the National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria -comes from three collections that were merged to form it. Since then the collection has continued to grow and develop, and today, our name reflects our history rather than the content of the collection today. However, people are often still surprised at the diversity of strains held at NCIMB, and might not think to search our catalogue for eg freshwater or soil strains. We love reading about all the amazing places that the strains …

NCIMB is delighted to be a sponsor of the Microbiology Society Annual Conference

NCIMB is delighted to be a sponsor of the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2022. The event will return to an in-person format this year and will be held in Belfast at the International Convention Centre from 4 – 7 April. More information about the conference programme, and what the organisers are doing to make it as safe as possible can be found here: https://microbiologysociety.org/event/annual-conference/annual-conference-2022.html

Two novel actinomycete species added to the National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria

Two novel actinomycete species1, isolated from Southern Ocean sediment, have been added to the NCIMB culture collection by researchers from the University of Strathclyde. The microbiology of Polar environments, which are vulnerable to global climate change, is vastly underexplored in terms of biomedical potential.  Furthermore, actinomycetes are well known for their specialised metabolite production, accounting for over 45% of all bioactive microbial metabolites. We are delighted to add Pseudonocardia abyssalis sp. nov. NCIMB 15270 and Pseudonocardia oceani sp. nov. NCIMB 15269. to our collection as they have been found to exhibit both …