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Subject: MIRCEN Network : member institutes
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Date: 20 Apr 89 11:02:00 GMT
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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.