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)