MNA CIBAN Italian Antarctic Bacterial Culture Collection

The Italian Collection of Antarctic Bacteria (Collezione Italiana Batteri Antarctici; CIBAN) was established in 1989 at the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences of the University of Messina. CIBAN is one of the few collections in the world dedicated to Antarctic bacteria and, since its inception, it has grown to include 515 cold-adapted strains belonging to 69 Genera. Many of these strains derive from the Terra Nova Bay marine area and hav been extracted from seawater, sediment, and benthic organisms. CIBAN also hosts bacterial isolates from the continent.意大利南极细菌保藏库（Collezione Italiana Batteri Antarctici，简称CIBAN）于1989年在墨西拿大学化学、生物、药学与环境科学系正式成立。CIBAN是全球为数不多专注于南极细菌的菌种保藏库之一，自创立以来，其馆藏规模已扩增至包含515株冷适应菌株，隶属于69个属。其中多数菌株源自特拉诺瓦湾海域，分离自海水、沉积物及底栖生物。此外，CIBAN还保藏有采自南极大陆的细菌分离株。