# Culture Collection Description / Address
1 ACOI - Coimbra Collection of Algae Department of Botany, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2 ACUF - Algal Collection University Federico II Collection at the Department of Biology of the University of Naples, Italy
3 Algobank - Algobank Caen Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, France
4 ANACC - Australian National Algae Culture Collection Hobart Laboratory of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Tasmania, Australia (formely CCLM - CSIRO Collection of Living Microalgae)
5 APCC Antarctic Protist Culture Collection Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod), USA
6 ARC - Algal Resources Collection Collection focused on HAB species with special emphasis on the toxic taxa, USA
7 ATCC American Type Culture Collection nonprofit, global biological resource center and standards organization, LGC Standards
8 BCCM - Belgian Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms BCCM/DCG Diatoms, Ghent University and BCCM/ULC Cyanobacteria, University of Liege, Belgium
9 BEA Banco Español de Algas (Spanish Bank of Algae) Marine Biotechnology Center of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
10 BMCC - Basque Microalgae Culture Collection Collection maintains marine and freshwater microalgae and cyanobacteria, mostly from the Basque Country
11 CAUP Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University of Praque Department of Botany, Praha, Czech Republic
12 CCAC Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne Botanisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany
13 CCALA - Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, TREBON
14 CCAM Culture Collection of Algae Marburg Department of Cell Biology and Applied Botany, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
15 CCAP Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom
16 CCCM Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms Department of Botany, University Boulevard, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Contain: NEPCC - North East Pacific Culture Collection (marine algae) and FWAC - Freshwater Algal Culture Collection
17 CCCryo Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT in Potsdam-Golm
18 CCMEE Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Oregon,  transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection UTEX, USA 
19 CCVIEO - Culture Collection Collection focused on marine HAB microalgae, Spain
20 CICCM The Cawthron Institute Culture Collection of Microalgae CICCM is a natinally significant living collection in New Zealand
21 CODIMAR Marine Dinoflagellates Collection Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
22 CPCCCanadian Phycological Culture Centre Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo (formerly UTCC - University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria)
23 CRC Chlamydomonas Resource Center

Chlamydomonas Resource Center, USA. An Online Informatics Resource for Chlamydomonas

24 EGE-MACC Ege University Microalgae Culture Collection Ege University Bioengineering Department, Turkey
25 FACHB Freshwater Algae Culture Collection of the CAS Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, China
26 GUMACC Göteborg University Marine Culture Collection Department of Marine Ecology, Göteborg University, Sweden
27 InaCC Indonesian Culture Collection National depository for microorganisms under the management the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia
28 KAC Kalmar Algae Collection Toxic Marine Phytoplankton Cultures, Dept. of Marine Sciences, Kalmar University, Sweden
29 KU-MACC Kobe University Macro-Algal Culture Collection Kobe University Research Center for Inland Seas (KURCIS)
30 Loras College Freshwater Diatom Culture Collection Loras College Freshwater Diatom Collection was transferred in 2006 from Loras College, Iowa, USA  to UTEX
31 MZCH-SVCK Microalgae Zygnemataceae Collection Hamburg Institut für Allgemeine Botanik der Universität Hamburg, Germany (formerly SVCK - Sammlung von Conjugaten-Kulture)
 32 NBRC NITE Biological Resource Center National Institute of Technology and Evaluation NITE, Chiba, Japan (MBIC - Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture collection were transferred to NITE in October 2006)
33 NCIM National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
34 NCMA National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine, U.S.A (formely CCMP The Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton)
35 NIES Collection Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (MCC NIES), Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
36 NORCCA Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae NORCCA maintained and owned by Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the University of Oslo (UiO) includes algal strains from the two instituties and the former SCCAP
37 PCC Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
38 PLY Plymouth Culture Collection of Marine Algae, now MBA Collection (Marine Biological Association) Microbiome Centre, Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK
39 RCC Roscoff Culture Collection Station Biologique, Roscoff, France
40 SAG Sammlung von Algenkulturen der Universität Göttingen Culture Collection of Algae (SAG) at the University of Göttingen, Germany
41 SCCAP Scandinavian Culture Centre for Algae and Protozoa, now SCCAP has been merged with the NIVA CCA (Culture Collection of Algae) in Norway Institute for Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, now in the NIVA Culture Collection of Algae in NORCCA, Norway
42 TAU-MAC Culture Collection Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, MicroAlgae and Cyanobacteria culture collection, Greece
43 TCC Thonon Culture Collection National network R-SYST, France
44 TISTR Culture Collection Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Thailand
45 UTEX Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

Useful links

 1 AlgaeBase global algal database Database of information on algae that includes terrestrial, marine and freshwater organisms
 2 CyanoDB reference tool for taxonomists  Online database of cyanobacterial genera
 3 DiatomBase diatom names catalogues  Online database of diatom genera
 4 ECCO - European Culture Collections Organisation Promoting collaboration and exchange of ideas and information about all aspects of culture collection activity
 5 WDCM WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms World Data Centre for Microorganisms, Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
 6 WFCC World Federation for Culture Collections WFCC is a Multidisciplinary Commission of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and a Federation within the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS)
 7  WORMS World Register of Marine Species An authoritative classification and catalogue of marine names

 

Books - Algal culture

1 Algal Culturing Techniques - 2005, Robert Andersen (Ed.)
2 Handbook of Microalgal Culture: Biotechnology and Applied Phycology - 2004, Amos Richmond (Ed.)
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