Canadian Phycological Culture Centre
Department of Biology
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. W
Waterloo ON, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: (519) 888-4567 ext 36114
Fax: (519) 746-0614
Email: hdroshon@uwaterloo.ca
Culture collections
- Algobank, France
- American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), USA
- Antarctic Protist Culture Collection at Woods Hole, USA
- Australian National Algae Culture Collection (ANACC), Australia (formerly CSIRO Microalgae Research Center)
- Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms (CCCM), Canada (includes marine algae in NEPCC and Freshwater Algal Collection at UBC)
- Cawthron Institute’s Culture Collection of Micro-algae (CICCM), New Zealand
- Chlamydomonas Resource Center, USA
- Coimbra Culture Collection of Algae (ACOI), Portugal
- Culture Collection at University of Marburg, Germany (based on the collection of Professor H.A.von Stosch)
- Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP), UK
- Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne (CCAC), Germany
- Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms (CCALA), Czech Republic
- Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University (CAUP), Czech Republic
- Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (CCBA), Poland
- Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae (CCCryo), Germany
- Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments (CCMEE), USA
- Dunaliella Culture Collection (DCCBC), USA
- IAM Culture Collection, Japan (Transferred to National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan)
- Loras College Freshwater Diatom Collection, USA (Transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae)
- Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture collection (MBIC), Japan (Transferred to the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) Biological Resource Center (NBRC) of Japan)
- National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan (NIES)
- Norwegian Institute for Water Research Culture Collection of Algae (NIVA-CCA), Oslo, Norway
- Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria (PCC), France
- Provasoli-Guillard National Centre for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA), USA (formerly CCMP)
- Roscoff Culture Collection (RCC), France
- Sammlung von Algenkulturen (SAG), Germany
- Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (SCCAP), Denmark (Transferred to Norwegian Institute for Water Research Culture Collection of Algae (NIVA-CCA), Oslo, Norway)
- University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX), USA
Culturing algae
- "Algal Culturing Techniques". 2005. A comprehensive new book edited by Robert Andersen.
- Corning has a useful guide to controlling contamination in cell cultures (PDF)
- FAO Guidelines for continuous mass culture of algae
- "Handbook of Microalgal Culture: Biotechnology and Applied Phycology". 2004. Amos Richmond (Ed.).
- World Health Organization guidelines for working in the cell culture laboratory can be found in Chapter 4 of the Polio Laboratory Manual
- "Microalgal Biotechnology". 1988. M. Borowitzka & L. Borowitzka (Eds.) Cambridge University Press. Useful as a guide in commercial production of microalgae
- "Microalgal Culturing" by Ian Probert and Christine Klaas. Excellent online introduction to the topic; based on a short course held in Caen, France,1999
Algae and cyanobacteria
- Algaebase
- AlgaeVision: Natural History Museum in London, UK
- Australian Freshwater Algae - great site for intro to algae including identification keys and many photos
- Census of Australian Marine Dinoflagellates
- Diatoms
- Diatom identification
- Hustedt Diatom Collection, Alfred Wegner Institute, Germany
- Key to identifying freshwater diatoms (P. Compere)
- Welcome to the World of Algae
- Phyto'pedia - The Phytoplankton Encyclopaedia Project: an online database of common phytoplankton from the coast of British Columbia, Canada (University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences)
- Seaweed Site (includes macro and microalgal information)
- Smithsonian Institution
- Volvocales Information Project (VIP) - an excellent resource site
- Blue-Green Algal Bloom Management - a great site for the general public about cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) blooms
- Cyanobacteria
- Cyanosite (great for cyanobacteria)
- Phycotoxins
- Toxic cyanobacteria page
Duckweed
Industrial use of microalgae
- Algae Observer
- A Resource for Growing Algae to Make Biofuels (posted by Doane College)
- Biotechnological & Environmental Applications of Microalgae (BEAM)
- Enhanced Biofuel Technologies
- European Algae Biomass Association
- Industrial Plankton Automated Bioreactors
- National Renewable Energy Lab Report: A look back at the US Department of Energy's Aquatic Species Program: Biodiesel from Algae (PDF)
- Oilgae
- Power Plant CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration) with FAQ
Discussion/news groups
International organizations and societies
- British Phycological Society (BPS)
- International Oceanographic Commission/UNESCO: Harmful Algal Bloom Programme (IOC HAB)
- International Phycological Society (IPS)
- International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae (ISSHA)
- Phycological Society of America (PSA)
- World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM)
- World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC)
Journals
Algal images
- Protist image data (PID)
- Center for Algal Microscopy (Algal Images Repository) at Bowling Green State University
- Directory of Algal Images (posted by Morgan Vis, University of Ohio)
- Academy of Natural Sciences: Algal Image Database
- Dinoflagellate SEM images
- Protist Database, Japan
- Michael R. Martin's Phytoplankton Image Library
- CYTOGRAPHICS - a great image resource courtesy of Prof. Jeremy Pickett-Heaps and others
- Diatom images