P2269@com.qz.se ("ENG-LEONG FOO ", MIRCEN-STOCKHOLM) (04/20/89)
From: Eng-leong Foo, MIRCEN-Stockholm
There are currently 19 Mircens in the following countries , each
of the institutes have their own area of expertise :-
Kenya: : Univ of Nairobi, Nairobi (nitrogen fixation)
Egypt : Ain Shams University, Cairo (biotechnology)
Senegal : Institut Senegalais de Recherches Agricoles,
Bambey (nitrogen fixation)
Argentina : Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales
Microbiologicos, Tucuman (biotechnology)
Guatemala : Central American Research Institute for
Industry, Guatemala (biotechnology)
Brasil : Instituto de Pesquisas Agronomicas, Porto
Alegre (nitrogen fixation)
Trinidad & Tobago : Caribbean Industrial Research Institute,
Tunapuna (biotechnology)
Thailand : Thailand Inst of Scientific and Technological
Research, Bangkok (Food and Waste Recycling)
Japan : World Data Centre, Tokyo (Culture collections)
: Univ. of Osaka (fermentation technology)
P.R. China : Inst of Microbiology, Zhongguancun (microbial
technology)
Australia : Univ of Queensland, Brisbane (biotechnology)
U.S.A. : Univ of Hawaii, Paia (nitrogen fixation)
: Univ of Maryland, College Park (marine biotechnology)
: Cell Culture and Nitrogen Fixation and Soyabean
Genetics Lab, ARS, USDA, Beltsville.
England : Inst of Biotechnological Studies/Biological
Laboratory, Kent
Sweden : Karolinska Inst. Stockholm (computer communication)
France : Centre de Transfert de Microbiologie Biotechnologie,
Toulouse (biotechnology).
Canada : Univ of Waterloo/Univ of Guelph (biotechnology)
Each Mircen listed here normally operate its own regional or
national network of collaborating laboratories (co-Mircens).
More information on the activities at each Mircen on their activities
on bioconversion will be provided later.