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1. Microbiology Researches at UST
University of Santo Tomas
Pontifical, Royal, and Catholic University of the Philippines
Jaycee Augusto G. Paguirigan, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science
Email: jagpaguirigan@gmail.com

2. Thomas Aquinas Research
Complex

3. https://ustfungalbiodiversitylab.wordpress.c
om/

4. Fungal Biodiversity, Ecogenomics and Systematics Group

5. Isolation of Marine and Terrestrial Strains of Trichoderma
Cultures grown on Trichoderma Selective Medium (TSM) after 3
days of incubation
23 Isolates belonging to 4 morphospecies

6. Isolation of Aquatic Fungi from Taal Lake
Spread Plate Method
Single Spore Method
Surface Water
Submerged
Wood
Direct Fruiting
Body Mounting
Morphological (for all isolates)
Molecular (for selected isolates)
Extraction Purification Amplification Sequencing
Riddell Slide Culture: spores,
hyphae, conidia, fruiting structures
Nuclear Internal Transcribed Spacer:
ITS1 (forward primer), ITS4 (backward
primer)

7. ISOLATION OF ENDOLICHENIC FUNGI
IN FOLIOSE and FRUTICOSE LICHENS

11. ISOLATION OF SOIL FUNGI
FROM GROUND AND CANOPY SOIL

16. UST
Collectio
n of
Microbial
Strains
Training and
Workshop
Distribution of Microbial
Resources to
Students/Researchers
Database Management
System
CMS Brochures/Flyers
Utilization of Indigenous
Microbial Resources
(Research Projects)
Deposit/Maintenance/
Safekeeping of
Microbial Resources
Student
On-the-Job
Training
Microbiological Services
THE UST COLLECTION OF
MICROBIAL STRAINS

17. INDIGENOUS
MICROBIAL
COLLECTIONS
Bacteria
(50+)
Molds (50 +)
Yeasts (50+)
Graduate School
Fungal Collection
(c/o Dr. Irineo Dogma)
(650+)
Marine
Oomycetes
(50+Strains)
(11 Molecularly
Identified and 3
New Species)
Actinomycetes
(15 + strains)
Inventory of Microbial Collections
as of March 2019
Database Used for Inventory: iCollect from Biotec, Thailand.

18. Natural
Products for
Health and
Wellness
Pure and
Applied
Microbiology
Molecular
Diagnostics
and
Therapeutics
Biodiversity,
Ecology,
Systematics &
Taxonomy
REASEACH CENTER FOR THE NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES
RESEARCH LABORATORIES
Use of microbial cultures from CMS
University of Santo Tomas
Pontifical, Royal, and Catholic University of the Philippines

19. UST CMS Website
University of Santo Tomas
Pontifical, Royal, and Catholic University of the Philippines