MIRRI

Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure - MIRRI

 Coordinatore LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT DSMZ-DEUTSCHE SAMMLUNG VON MIKROORGANISMEN UND ZELLKULTUREN GMBH* 

 Organization address address: Inhoffenstrasse 7B
city: BRAUNSCHWEIG
postcode: 38124

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Heike
Cognome: Bauer
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 531 6181 2027
Fax: +49 531 6181 2299

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Germany [DE]
 Totale costo 4˙121˙107 €
 EC contributo 3˙137˙774 €
 Programma FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research infrastructures
 Code Call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1
 Funding Scheme CP-CSA-Infra
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-11-01   -   2016-04-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT DSMZ-DEUTSCHE SAMMLUNG VON MIKROORGANISMEN UND ZELLKULTUREN GMBH*

 Organization address address: Inhoffenstrasse 7B
city: BRAUNSCHWEIG
postcode: 38124

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Heike
Cognome: Bauer
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 531 6181 2027
Fax: +49 531 6181 2299

DE (BRAUNSCHWEIG) coordinator 1˙432˙000.00
2    UNIVERSITEIT GENT

 Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25
city: GENT
postcode: 9000

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Nathalie
Cognome: Vandepitte
Email: send email
Telefono: +32 9 264 3029
Fax: +32 9 264 3583

BE (GENT) participant 260˙007.00
3    CAB INTERNATIONAL

 Organization address address: Nosworthy Way
city: WALLINGFORD
postcode: OX10 8DE

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: David
Cognome: Smith
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1491 829114
Fax: +44 1491 829100

UK (WALLINGFORD) participant 223˙922.00
4    KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW

 Organization address address: KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS
city: AMSTERDAM
postcode: 1011 JV

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Don
Cognome: Van Velzen
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 30 2121800

NL (AMSTERDAM) participant 204˙575.00
5    INSTITUT PASTEUR

 Organization address address: RUE DU DOCTEUR ROUX 25-28
city: PARIS CEDEX 15
postcode: 75724

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Chantal
Cognome: Bizet
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 1 40 61 31 19

FR (PARIS CEDEX 15) participant 175˙302.00
6    UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA

 Organization address address: AVENIDA BLASCO IBANEZ 13
city: VALENCIA
postcode: 46010

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Angeles
Cognome: Sanchis Polo
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 96 398 36 21
Fax: +34 96 393 77 29

ES (VALENCIA) participant 172˙911.00
7    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE

 Organization address address: Rue De L'Universite 147
city: PARIS CEDEX 07
postcode: 75338

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Claire
Cognome: Poitelon
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 2 38417801
Fax: +33 2 38417879

FR (PARIS CEDEX 07) participant 130˙493.00
8    GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET

 Organization address address: VASAPARKEN
city: GOETEBORG
postcode: 405 30

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Ulrika
Cognome: Hjelm
Email: send email
Telefono: +46 31 7869504
Fax: +46 31 7864 355

SE (GOETEBORG) participant 85˙600.00
9    UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO

 Organization address address: Largo do Paco
city: BRAGA
postcode: 4704553

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Nelson
Cognome: Lima
Email: send email
Telefono: +351 253604403
Fax: +351 253604429

PT (BRAGA) participant 82˙998.00
10    JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN GGMBH

 Organization address address: Campus Ring 1
city: BREMEN
postcode: 28759

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Ronald
Cognome: Kieschnick
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 421 2004515

DE (BREMEN) participant 79˙501.00
11    IRCCS AZIENDA OSPEDALIERA UNIVERSITARIA SAN MARTINO-IST-ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER LA RICERCA SUL CANCRO

 Organization address address: LARGO ROSANNA BENZI 10
city: GENOVA
postcode: 16132

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Paolo
Cognome: Romano
Email: send email
Telefono: 390106000000

IT (GENOVA) participant 79˙249.00
12    SERVICE PUBLIC FEDERAL DE PROGRAMMATION POLITIQUE SCIENTIFIQUE

 Organization address address: avenue Louise 231
city: BRUSSELS
postcode: 1050

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Brigitte
Cognome: Blanquart
Email: send email
Telefono: +32 2 2383746
Fax: +32 2 2383754

BE (BRUSSELS) participant 71˙690.00
13    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO

 Organization address address: Via Giuseppe Verdi 8
city: TORINO
postcode: 10124

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Giovanna Cristina Varese
Cognome: Varese
Email: send email
Telefono: 390117000000

IT (TORINO) participant 71˙608.00
14    INSTYTUT BIOTECHNOLOGII PRZEMYSLU ROLNO-SPOZYWCZEGO IM PROF WACLAWA DABROWSKIEGO

 Organization address address: ULICA RAKOWIECKA 36
city: WARSZAWA
postcode: 02 532

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Anna
Cognome: Bednarek
Email: send email
Telefono: +48 22 6063968
Fax: +48 22 8490426

PL (WARSZAWA) participant 26˙750.00
15    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

 Organization address address: CALLE SERRANO 117
city: MADRID
postcode: 28006

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Alberto
Cognome: Sereno Alvarez
Email: send email
Telefono: 34915668852
Fax: 34915668913

ES (MADRID) participant 22˙335.00
16    INSTITUT OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS RAS

 Organization address address: NAUKA PROSPECT 5
city: PUSHCHINO
postcode: 142290

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Lyudmila
Cognome: Evtushenko
Email: send email
Telefono: +7 496 7730924
Fax: +7 495 9563370

RU (PUSHCHINO) participant 18˙833.00

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biological    serve    tools    health    public    waste    fragmented    national    distributed    security    establishment    pan    quality    mirri    infrastructure    resource    centres    lacking    appropriate    players    material    policy    food    makers    individual    species    ri    services    central    network    expertise    countries    microorganisms    biotechnology    governance    raw    microbial    collections    brcs    identification    coordinated    preparatory    data   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

MIRRI will be a pan-European distributed RI providing microbiological services, thus facilitating access to high quality microorganisms, their derivatives and associated data for research, development and application. It will connect resource holders with researchers and policy makers to deliver the resources and services more effectively and efficiently to meet the needs of innovation in biotechnology. The RI builds upon 60 microbial domain resource centres (BRCs) in 26 European countries; collectively they provide access to more than 350,000 strains of microorganisms. Microorganisms provide essential raw material for biotechnology - but to date less than 1% of the estimated number of species are described and available to be harnessed by man. As new species are discovered, expertise is difficult to locate to ensure correct identification. Public sequence databases provide modern tools for identification but the information is often of poor quality and often not backed up by the biological material to enable validation of data. The current fragmented resource distributed across Europe needs to be coordinated and operated to common standards with facilitating policy to help focus activities to the big challenges in healthcare, food security, poverty alleviation and climate change. Lacking infrastructure, policy framework and governance structures will be defined in the preparatory phase, as will be the links to researchers and policy makers. Specialist clusters will address priority issues and output steering. BRCs should be placed on national road maps, ensuring the pan-European strategy can be implemented. Cross discipline interactions with other RIs will lead to new approaches. Linking the microbial strain information to other relevant data will allow their full exploitation. Appropriate data mining solutions will enable focussing acquisition and delivery strategies, thus bridging current gaps and improving user access.

Introduzione (Teaser)

Microbial resources are an essential raw material for the advancement of biotechnology, human health, and research and development in life sciences. EU funding is making sure that Europe is at the forefront of microbial research with the establishment of integrated national public collections.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Microorganisms serve as natural resources for the production of antibiotics and other secondary metabolites of therapeutic value. They are key players in improving food, increase agricultural productivity and they are most productive biological players in waste management, decomposing and recycling both nature's and industrial waste.

Traditionally, Europe has been the cradle of public collections of microbes but the existing landscape is fragmented, lacking coherence and coordination. The EU-funded ' Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure - MIRRI' (http://www.mirri.org (MIRRI)) project is integrating the main public microbial resource centres and their supporting services and data into a novel pan-European coordinated microbial research infrastructure.

More than 40 public culture collections and research institutes from 19 European countries are collaborating to better serve all user needs. Collections are divided into three broad groups, specialized on medical, applications (e.g. agriculture and waste management), and physiological and ecological biodiversity.

At the halfway stage, the Preparatory Phase has achieved most key goals, built on previous and ongoing research initiatives and the Global Biological Resource Centre Network project that is directly related to the needs of MIRRI. The first parts of the business and financial plan, governance structure statutes and MIRRI charter have been prepared.

Individual partner strengths will help to fill user needs. The stakeholder community is very wide-ranging and MIRRI is defining communication channels and stimulating collaboration between partners and individual stakeholders.

Implementation of a legal status operating on a non-profit basis for the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) is a key goal. After establishment of a seat for headquarters (Central Coordinating Unit (CCU)), this will provide a common access portal to resources and data, including appropriate facilities, support and expertise available in Member States.

The central theme for MIRRI deliverables is to provide a network where the quality of collections can be increased, and data sharing and modelling will bring about cost efficiencies and new tools. Impact on society will be to improve the economy and create employment in biotech areas in health care and food production and security.

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