Petri dish be used to observe plant germination, the behavior of very small animals or for other day-to-day laboratory practices such as drying fluids in an oven and carrying or storing samples. Their transparency and flat profile also mean they are commonly used as temporary receptacles for viewing samples, especially liquids, under a low-power microscope. Petri dish A Petri dish (sometimes spelled "Petrie Dish" and alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish), named after the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, is a shallow cylindrical glass or plastic lidded dish that biologists use to culture cellssuch as bacteriaor small mosses. Modern
Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms man and animals (BCCM/IHEM) • human and animal cell lines, including hybridomas (BCCM/GeneCorner) • genetic material in a host or in the form of isolated material (e.g. plasmids, oncogenes, RNA) (BCCM/GeneCorner) Other services Next to its collections of biological materials, BCCM also offers expertise in: Research projects autonomously developed by BCCM staff or in collaboration with research groups of the host laboratories are focussed among others on: Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms The Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms (BCCM) is a Belgian government funded consortium of seven scientific institutions, who manage and exploit a collection of microbial and genetic resources.