Algae Links
Organisations, Projects and Databases
WFCC | World Federation for Culture Collections |
ECCO | European Culture Collections' Organisation | MIRRI | EU-Project: Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure |
Sektion Phykologie | Sektion Phykologie der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft | Algaebase | Listing of the Worlds Algae |
Culture Collections worldwide
ACOI | Coimbra Collection of Algae, Coimbra (PRT) |
ALGOBANK | The microalgal culture collection at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (FR) |
ANACC | CSIRO Australian National Algae Culture Collection of Living Microalgae, Hobart (AU) |
BCCM/DCG | Diatoms Collection at Gent University (BE) |
BEA | Banco Espanol De Algas, Gran Canaria (ES) |
CAUP | Culture Collection of Algae at Charles University Prague (CZ) |
CC | Chlamydomonas Center, St. Paul, Minnesota (US) |
CCAC | Central Collection of Algal Cultures at the University of Duisburg-Essen (DE) |
CCALA | Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms, Trebon (CZ) |
CCAP | Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Oban (GB) |
CCCryo | Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae, Potsdam-Golm (DE) |
CPCC | Canadian Phycological Culture Centre (former UTCC), Waterloo, Ontario (CA) |
KU-MACC | Kobe University Macro-Algal Culture Collection (JP) |
MZCH | Microalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg (former SVCK), Hamburg (DE) |
NCMA | National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (former CCMP), East Boothbay, Maine US) |
NIES | Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba (JP) |
NIVA | Culture Collection of Algae of Norwegian Institute for Water Research, (merged with SCCAP to become NORCCA) |
NORCCA | Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae, Oslo (NO) |
PCC | Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacterial Strains, Paris (FR) |
PLY | Plymouth Culture Collection of Marine Microalgae (GB) (limited access) |
RCC | Roscoff Culture Collection, Brittany (FR) |
SCCAP | Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Copenhagen (DK) (merged with NIVA-CCA to become NORCCA) |
UTEX | The Culture Collection of Algae at The University of Texas, Austin (US) |