Algae & duckweed links

Culture collections

• Algal Collection University Federico II (ACUF), Italy
• Algal Resource Collection (ARC), USA
• Algobank-Caen (AC), France
• American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), USA

• Australian Collection of Marine Microorganisms (ACMM) at the Marine and Aquaculture Research Facility (MARF), Australia

• Australian National Algae Culture Collection (ANACC), Australia (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Microalgae Research Center)

• Basque Microalgae Culture Collection (BMCC), Spain
• Belgian Co-ordinated Collection of Micro-organisms (BCCM), Belgium

• Belgian Co-ordinated Collection of Micro-organisms Cyanobacteria Collection (BCCM/ULC), Belgium (housed at Ghent University)

• Belgian Co-ordinated Collection of Micro-organisms Diatoms Collection (BCCM/DCG), Belgium (housed at Ghent University)

• Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms (CCCM), Canada (includes marine algae in the North East Pacific Culture Collection (NEPCC) and Freshwater Algal Collection (FWAC) housed at UBC)

• Cawthron Institute’s Culture Collection of Micro-algae (CICCM), New Zealand
• Central Collection of Algal Cultures (CCAC), Germany (formerly Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne (CCAC))

• China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) at the Institute of Microbiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMAS), China

• Chlamydomonas Resource Center (CRC), USA (formerly Chlamydomonas Genetics Center (CGC))
• Coimbra Collection of Algae (ACOI), Portugal
• Colgate University Snow Algae Collection (SNO), USA (transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX))
• Collection of Algae of Leningrad University (CALU), Russia
• Collection of Microorganisms Aidar & Kutner (BMAK) of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (IOUSP), Brazil (formerly Bank of Marine Microorganisms (BMM))
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP), UK (formerly Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP) at Cambridge University; currently housed within the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) (formerly Scottish Marine Biological Association (SMBA)))
• Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University of Prague (CAUP), Czech Republic
• Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms (CCALA), Czech Republic
• Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (CCBA), Poland
• Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae (CCCryo), Germany

• Culture Collection of Harmful Microalgae of the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO) at the Oceanographic Center of Vigo (CCVIEO), Spain

• Culture Collection of Microalgae at Institute of Plant Physiology (IPPAS), Russia
• Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments (CCMEE), USA (transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX))

• Czech Collection of Microorganisms (CCM), Czech Republic

• Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH at the Leibniz Institute (DSMZ), Germany (formerly Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen (DSM))
• Freshwater Algae Culture Collection at the Institute of Hydrobiology (FACHB), China
• IAM Culture Collection, Japan (transferred to the National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES))

• Indonesian Culture Collection (InaCC), Indonesia

• Loras College Freshwater Diatom Collection (FDCC), USA (transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX))

• Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture collection (MBIC), Japan (transferred to the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) Biological Resource Center (NBRC) of Japan)

• Max Planck Institute Dasycladales Macroalgae Collection, Germany (transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX), USA)

• Michigan State University Euglenid Collection, USA (transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX))

• Microalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg (MZCH-SVCK), Germany

• National Alliance for Advance Biofuels and Bio-products Collection (NAABB), USA (transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX))

• National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (NCIM), India

• National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan

• National Wildlife Refuge Salt Plains Collection (SP), USA (transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX))

• Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae (NORCCA), Norway

• Norwegian Institute for Water Research Culture Collection of Algae (NIVA-CCA), Norway (transferred to the Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae (NORCCA))

• Pasteur Collection of Cyanobacterial Strains (PCC), France

• Provasoli-Guillard National Centre for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA), USA (formerly Provasoli-Guillard Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP))

• R. Malcolm Brown Jr. Marine Cladophorales Collection, USA (transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX))

• Roscoff Culture Collection (RCC), France

• Rutgers Duckweed Stock Cooperative (RDSC), USA

• Sammlung von Algenkulturen (SAG), Germany

• Sammlung von Conjugate Kulturen (SVCK), Germany (transferred to Microalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg (MZCH-SVCK))

• Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (SCCAP), Denmark (transferred to the Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae (NORCCA), Norway)
• Spanish Bank of Algae (BAE), Spain
• Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research Culture Collection (TISTR), Thailand
• University of Helsinki Cyanobacterial Culture Collection (UHCC) at the Microbial Domain Biological Resource Centre (HAMBI Mbrc), Finland
• University of Malaya Algae Culture Collection (UMACC), Malaysia

• University of Oslo Culture Collection of Algae (UIO-CCA), Norway (transferred to the Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae (NORCCA))

• University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae (UTEX), USA
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) Antarctic Protist Culture Collection, USA

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Biological supply companies

• Algae Analytics, USA

• Algae Research and Supply, USA

• Aquatic BioSystems Inc., USA

• Aquatic Indicators Inc., USA

• Aquatic Research Organisms, USA

• Boreal Science, Canada

• Brineshrimp Direct, USA

• Carolina Biological Supply Company, USA

• Cedarlane, Canada

• Grow Organic Spirulina, Israel

• Marinus Scientific, USA

• Raw Living Spirulina, USA

• Reed Mariculture Inc., USA

• Southern Biological, Australia

• Spirulina Grow Co., Australia

• Sunnyside Sea Farms, USA

• Ward’s Science, USA

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Culturing algae

• "Algal Culturing Techniques". 2005. A comprehensive new book edited by Robert Andersen.
• Corning: A Guide to Understanding and Managing Cell Culture Contamination
• 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

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Algae and cyanobacteria

• Algaebase
• AlgaeVision: Natural History Museum in London, UK
• Algal Web (John Kinross)
• Census of Australian Marine Dinoflagellates
• Diatoms
• Diatoms of North America
• Hustedt Diatom Collection, Alfred Wegner Institute, Germany
• 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
• Introduction to the Cyanobacteria
• Cyanosite: For Research on Cyanobacteria (Purdue University & Wichita State University)
• Harmful Algae (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; U.S. National Office for Harmful Algal Blooms)
• Toxic cyanobacteria page (Cyanosite)

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Duckweed

• Rutgers Duckweed Stock Cooperative

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Industrial use of microalgae

• A Resource for Growing Algae to Make Biofuels (posted by Doane College)
• Carbon Capture (Center for Climate and Energy Solutions)
• Carbon Capture & Storage (Government of Canada)
• Carbon Storage Program (National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL))
• 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

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Discussion/news groups

• Algae-L
• Diatom-L
• Cyanonews (archived material)

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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)

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Journals

• European Journal of Phycology
• Journal of Applied Phycology
• Journal of Phycology
• Phycologia

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Algal images

• Algaevision (The British Phycological Society and the Natural History Museum: images to accompany The Algal Flora of the British Isles (2011); excludes diatoms)
• Algal Image Database (Academy of Natural Sciences)
• Algal Microscopy and Image Digitization Archive (Bowling Green State University)
• CYTOGRAPHICS - a great image resource courtesy of Prof. Jeremy Pickett-Heaps and others
• Diatom Image Database (ADIAC)
• Diatoms (Dr. Ralf Wagner)
• Phycokey - an image based key to Algae (PS Protista), Cyanobacteria, and other aquatic objects (A.L.Baker et al., 2012)
• PMN Image Gallery (NCCOS)
• Protist image data (PID) (University of Montreal)
• Protist Information Server (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies & Japan Science and Technology Corporation)

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