Bacterial Culture Collections: Their Importance to Biotechnology and Microbiology

The Importance of Bacterial Culture to Food Microbiology in the Age of Genomics

Culture-based and genomics methods provide different insights into the nature and behavior of bacteria. Maximizing the usefulness of both approaches requires recognizing their limitations and employing them appropriately. Genomic analysis excels at identifying bacteria and establishing the relatedness of isolates. Culture-based methods remain necessary for detection and enumeration, to determin...

Journal: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Current and past strategies for bacterial culture in clinical microbiology.

A pure bacterial culture remains essential for the study of its virulence, its antibiotic susceptibility, and its genome sequence in order to facilitate the understanding and treatment of caused diseases. The first culture conditions empirically varied incubation time, nutrients, atmosphere, and temperature; culture was then gradually abandoned in favor of molecular methods. The rebirth of cult...

Microbial biotechnology meets environmental microbiology

Amir Aharoni, Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. The size of the microbial world is beyond our imagination. In last year’s crystal ball article, Tom Curtis compared the size of the microbial world to the size of the universe pointing out that the number of microorganisms in the world is billion...

Environmental Microbiology meets Microbial Biotechnology

We would like to begin this editorial by paying a modest but sincere tribute to Professor Kenneth Timmis for his recent nomination as a member of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. Kenneth Timmis has pioneered science fields related to plasmid replication, biodegradation, microbial ecology, biodiversity and most recently metagenomics. In addition, to these many relevant scientific contrib...