List of algal culture collections

This is a list of algal culture collections. Algal cultures are strains of algae that have been collected, identified, and preserved or stored in some way. Algal cultures are often amassed into collections and made available to researchers and industry.

Australia[]

www.marine.csiro.au CSIRO Microalgae Research Centre (CMARC)

Canada[]

www.botany.utoronto.ca University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria:
www3.botany.ubc.ca Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms (includes marine algae in NEPCC and Freshwater Algal Collection at UBC):

Czech Republic[]

botany.natur.cuni.cz Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University Prague

www.butbn.cas.cz Culture Collection of Algal Laboratory, Trebon, Czech Republic

France[]

www.uincaen.frAlgobank, France
www.sb-roscoff.fr Roscoff Culture Collection, France (RCC)
www.pasteur.fr Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria

Germany[]

www.ccac.uni-koeln.de Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne, Germany (CCAC)
www.epsag.uni-goettingen.de Culture Collection of Algae (SAG) at the University of Götting
staff-www.uni-marburg.deDepartment of Cell Biology and Applied Botany, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
www.awi.de The Friedrich Hustedt Diatom Collection

Japan[]

www.nies.go.jp National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan (NIES)
www.mbio.co.jp Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture Collection in Japan(MBIC)
www.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp IAM Culture Collection in Japan
wdcm.nig.ac.jp WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM)
seasquirt.mbio.co.jpMarine Biotechnology Institute Culture collection.

Mexico[]

www.cibnor.mxCIBNOR Microalgae Culture Collection, La Paz, Mexico

United Kingdom[]

www.ccap.ac.uk Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
www.mba.ac.uk/culturecollection.php The Plymouth Culture Collection of Marine Algae

United States[]

www.utex.org University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae
www.carolina.com (algae) (cyanobacteria)
www.atcc.org American Type Culture Collection
ccmp.bigelow.org Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton:
www.chlamy.org (Chlamydomonas strains)
www.whoi.edu Antarctic Protist Culture Collection at Woods Hole. MA
www.bgsu.edu Loras College Diatom Culture Collection, USA
cultures.uoregon.edu Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments
www.biology.duke.edu Chlamydomonas Genetics Center:
www.calacademy.org The Diatom Collection of the California Academy of Sciences

Misc[]

Alginet Alginet European database
www.sccap.bot.ku.dk Scandinavian Culture Centre for Algae and Protozoa
www.uc.ptCoimbra Culture Collection of Algae, Portugal (ACOI)
www.dunaliella.org Dunaliella Culture Collection
www.icman.csic.es

External links[]

wdcm.nig.ac.jp Home Pages of Culture Collections in the World
www.bacterio.cict.fr Culture collections of prokaryotes
www.dsmz.de DSMZ - Abbreviations of Collections and Institutions