Algae Links


Organisations, Projects and Databases

WFCCWorld Federation for Culture Collections
ECCOEuropean Culture Collections' Organisation
MIRRIEU-Project: Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure
Sektion PhykologieSektion Phykologie der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft
AlgaebaseListing of the Worlds Algae


Culture Collections worldwide
ACOICoimbra Collection of Algae, Coimbra (PRT)
ALGOBANKThe microalgal culture collection at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (FR)
ANACC CSIRO Australian National Algae Culture Collection of Living Microalgae, Hobart (AU)
BCCM/DCGDiatoms Collection at Gent University (BE)
BEABanco Espanol De Algas, Gran Canaria (ES)
CAUPCulture Collection of Algae at Charles University Prague (CZ)
CCChlamydomonas Center, St. Paul, Minnesota (US)
CCACCentral Collection of Algal Cultures at the University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
CCALACulture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms, Trebon (CZ)
CCAPCulture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Oban (GB)
CCCryoCulture Collection of Cryophilic Algae, Potsdam-Golm (DE)
CPCCCanadian Phycological Culture Centre (former UTCC), Waterloo, Ontario (CA)
KU-MACCKobe University Macro-Algal Culture Collection (JP)
MZCHMicroalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg (former SVCK), Hamburg (DE)
NCMANational Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (former CCMP), East Boothbay, Maine US)
NIESMicrobial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba (JP)
NIVACulture Collection of Algae of Norwegian Institute for Water Research, (merged with SCCAP to become NORCCA)
NORCCANorwegian Culture Collection of Algae, Oslo (NO)
PCCPasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacterial Strains, Paris (FR)
PLYPlymouth Culture Collection of Marine Microalgae (GB) (limited access)
RCCRoscoff Culture Collection, Brittany (FR)
SCCAPScandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Copenhagen (DK) (merged with NIVA-CCA to become NORCCA)
UTEXThe Culture Collection of Algae at The University of Texas, Austin (US)