Frozen Tissue Collection

The AMNH has established a modern frozen tissue storage facility, the Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research, also known as the Ambrose Monell Cryocollection. The facility, which can store one million samples, is intended as a core sample resource center for comparative genomics, storing a comprehensive range of species, including pure cultured samples of taxa under study as well as taxa that cannot currently be cultured. Since the collection opened in 2001, more than 5400 samples have been accessioned. Samples are housed in liquid nitrogen at -150°C to maintain the highest quality and maximum stability of biomolecules indefinitely.

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