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Antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of LEGE 00249 lipids

New paper about the antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of Sphaerospermopsis sp. LEGE 00249 lipids. This strain was selected after screening 600 microalgae and cyanobacteria strains from two culture collections (one of them LEGE-CC). Cepas V, Gutiérrez-Del-Río I, López Y, Redondo-Blanco S, Gabasa Y, Iglesias MJ, Soengas R, Fernández-Lorenzo A, López-Ibáñez…

December 15, 2021 Read More

LEGE Natural Products Library (LEGE-NPL)

Our new paper uncovering the Bioactive Potential Of Cyanobacterial of LEGE Natural Products Library (LEGE-NPL): Ferreira, L.; Morais, J.; Preto, M.; Silva, R.; Urbatzka, R.; Vasconcelos, V.; Reis, M. Uncovering the Bioactive Potential of a Cyanobacterial Natural Products Library Aided by Untargeted Metabolomics. Mar. Drugs 2021, 19, 633. – Link to Paper Abstract: The…

December 9, 2021 Read More

Overview of LEGE-CC

An overview of the Blue Biotechnology and Ecotoxicology Culture Collection (LEGE-CC) was published, which include the release of the first version of the strain catalog: Ramos, V., Morais, J., Castelo-Branco, R. et al. (2018). Cyanobacterial diversity held in microbial biological resource centers as a biotechnological asset: the case study of…

January 9, 2018 Read More

LEGE-CC in the news (CYANOBESITY project)

Cyanobacterial strains from the Blue Biotechnology and Ecotoxicology Culture Collection (LEGE-CC) will be screened as a source of bioactive compounds with effects on obesity and obesity-related co-morbidities in the CYANOBESITY project, new European CIIMAR project coordinated by Ralph Urbatzka. The project involves a funding of 1.3 million euros and five research groups in…

April 15, 2017 Read More

Database from the LEGE Culture Collection

The database from the LEGE Culture Collection is being populated with information for each strain (including strain description, taxonomic-related data, origin, culture conditions, references and other relevant info). The collection comprises 386 cyanobacterial strains, several of them unique among the (phylogenetic) diversity of the group. Soon, it will be possible…

November 21, 2016 Read More

BioIberoamérica – Biotecnologia Integrando Continentes

Some LEGE Culture Collection (LEGE CC) team members participated in the congress BioIberoamérica – Biotecnologia Integrando Continentes, held in Salamanca, Spain, on 5 to 8 June, 2016. Vitor Vasconcelos presented the oral communication “Cyanobacteria secondary metabolites with biotechnological applications: toxins, drugs, cosmeceuticals and antifoulings”. Vitor Ramos also presented a communication…

NoMorFilm Project – LEGE CC strains

Blue Biotechnology and Ecotoxicology laboratory led by Vítor Vasconcelos, at CIIMAR, is one of the partners of the project NOMORFILM “Novel marine molecules against biofilm – Application to medical devices”, funded by Horizon 2020. In this project, cyanobacterial strains from LEGE Culture Collection (LEGE CC) are being used in order…