Welcome to the Leibniz Institute DSMZ

German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH

Research

The research focus of the almost 100 scientists at the DSMZ are the various aspects of biodiversity in prokaryotes & eukaryotes.

Research groups

Collection

In our online shop we offer the most diverse portfolio of bioresources for researchers from academia & industry.

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Services

We offer a comprehensive portfolio of services like identification, characterization, specific analyses & online tools.

Services

News

Braunschweiger Forschende an der Erstellung des für den Artenschutz wichtigen Wegweisers beteiligt

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Bacteria named after well-known microbiologists from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ

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Bakterien nach bekannten Mikrobiologen des Leibniz-Instituts DSMZ benannt

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Researcher at the DSMZ in Braunschweig develops new method for the derivatization of antibiotics

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Wissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Yvonne Mast entwickelt mit ihrem Team neue Methode zur Derivatisierung von Antibiotika

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Bioresources

Bacteria

> 37,500 strains

Archaea

> 760 strains

Plant viruses

> 920 viruses

Human & Animal Cell Lines

> 930 cell lines

Plasmids

> 250 plasmids

Fungi & Yeasts

> 9,300 strains

Bacteriophages

> 1,300 phages

Cyanobacteria & Protists

> 120 bioresources

Research

In the focus ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) priority list contains a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health and…

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BacDive

The Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Our metadatabase of organism-linked information covering the multifarious aspects of bacterial and archaeal biodiversity.
 

TYGS

Type (Strain) Genome Server

TYGS offers a truly genome-based classification and identification of prokaryotic strains without overestimating phylogenetic confidence.

LPSN

List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

LPSN is a compilation of all names of Bacteria & Archaea which have been validly published according to the Bacteriological Code.

Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Profile Search

Analysis of Short Tandem Repeats

Since STR microsatellites are stable as well as highly polymorphic in human populations, STR profiling is shown to be ideal for authentication of human cell line samples.