Description of the RI

The RI, acting as a regional and international service providing centre, involves units operating as overlapped complex instrument clusters in the form of workstations, which participate in the systematic storage-, complex genomic and metabolomics-based characterization of microorganisms, bioactivity screening and large-scale production of their metabolites as well as pathogenicity- and virulence assay of the microorganisms with clinical relevance.

Activities and Services

Seven workstations are participating in the activity of the research infrastructure: 1) the basic biobank deposit and microbial maintenance unit (MÁ-1, Department of Microbiology); 2) the workstations performing the genetic characterization of the strains (MÁ-2, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; 3) the unit characterizing the deposits of the gene bank in terms of the production of secondary metabolites (MÁ-3, Department of Microbiology); 4) the workstation for the characterization of clinical isolates (MÁ-4, Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Diagnostics); 5) the unit for the characterization of microorganisms relevant for the food industry (MÁ-5, Faculty of Engineering); 6) a workstation for the production of active substances at laboratory level (MÁ-6, Department of Biotechnology); and 7) a histological workstation capable of assessing the pathogenicity of clinical isolates at tissue level ( MÁ-7, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Neuroscience).