About CREM

The ‘Centro de Recursos Microbiológicos’ (CREM) is an R&D unit hosted by the ‘Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/Universidade Nova de Lisboa – FCT/UNL’ and funded by the ‘Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia’, the governmental organisation for Science and Technology. The unit was founded in 1998 and is periodically evaluated by an independent international committee. In 2003 it was rated Very Good.

The unit is committed to research in areas of microbiology, with the general objectives of contributing to the advancement of fundamental knowledge, with a view to its potential application in biomedicine, fermentative industries and agro-sciences. It builds on interdisciplinary competences and it promotes high quality training at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

The research and training programmes are developed around two research lines:

 Molecular Evolution and Ecology

 Interactions Microorganism-Environment

CREM houses the Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection (PYCC), an internationally recognised yeast collection founded in 1952 by the late Prof. Nicolau van Uden.