Canadian Phycological Culture Centre (CPCC)

International organizations related to culture collections

• International Oceanographic Commission/UNESCO: Harmful Algal Bloom Programme http://ioc-unesco.org/hab/
• World Federation for Culture Collections http://wdcm.nig.ac.jp/wfcc/
• World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM). http://www.wdcm.org/
• Algaebase www.algaebase.org/
• International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae www.issha.org/Welcome-to-ISSHA

Culture Collections

• Algobank, France http://www.unicaen.fr/algobank/
• American Type Culture Collection: http://www.atcc.org
• Antarctic Protist Culture Collection at Woods Hole. MA http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/protists/
• Cawthron Micro-Algae Collection: http://www.cawthron.org.nz/seafood-safety-biotechnology/micro-algae-culture-collection.html
• Coimbra Culture Collection of Algae, Portugal (ACOI) acoi.ci.uc.pt/
• Culture Collection at University of Marburg, Germany (based on the collection of Professor H.A.von Stosch) http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~cellbio/welcomeframe.html
• Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University Prague http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/algo/caup.html
• Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne, Germany (CCAC) http://www.ccac.uni-koeln.de/
• Culture Collection of Algal Laboratory, Trebon, Czech Republic http://www.butbn.cas.cz/ccala/ccala.htm
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa: http://www.ife.ac.uk/ccap
• Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments http://cultures.uoregon.edu/default.htm
• CSIRO Microalgae Research Center, Australia http://www.marine.csiro.au/microalgae/
• Chlamydomonas Genetics Center: http://www.chlamy.org
• Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms (includes marine algae in NEPCC and Freshwater Algal Collection at UBC): http://www3.botany.ubc.ca/cccm/index.html
• Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (Gdansk, Poland): www.ocean.univ.gda.pl/~ccba/ien.php
• Dunaliella Culture Collection http://www.dunaliella.org/dccbc/
• Hawaii Culture Collection:  see HR BioPetroleum www.hrbp.com/Technology/CultureCollection.html
• IAM Culture Collection in Japan (Transferred to Japan Collection of Microorganisms): www.jcm.riken.go.jp/JCM/IAM_info2.shtml
• Loras College Diatom Culture Collection, USA (Transferred to UTEX):  http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/biology/facilities/algae/html/DiatomCulture.html
• National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan (NIES) http://www.nies.go.jp/biology/mcc/home.htm
• Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture Collection in Japan( Transferred to National Institute of Technology & Evaluation): www.nbrc.nite.go.jp/e/070328-e.html
• Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/banques/PCC/
• Provasoli-Guillard Culture Collection of Marine Phytoplankton: http://ccmp.bigelow.org
• Roscoff Culture Collection, France (RCC) http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/Phyto/RCC/index.php
• Sammlung von Algenkulturen (SAG) http://www.epsag.uni-goettingen.de
• Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa http://www.sccap.dk
• University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae: http://www.utex.org/

Culturing Algae

• "Algal Culturing Techniques". 2005. A comprehensive new book edited by Robert Andersen. For more info visit http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.authors/704266/description#description
  
• Corning has a useful guide to controlling contamination in cell cultures. See: http://catalog2.corning.com/Lifesciences/media/pdf/cccontamination.pdf
• "Handbook of Microalgal Culture: Biotechnology and Applied Phycology". 2004. Amos Richmond (Ed.). For more details see http://www.chipsbooks.com/hbalgal.htm.
• Guidelines for working in the cell culture laboratory can be found on the World Health Organization website at:  http://www.who.int/vaccines/en/poliolab/webhelp/Chapter_04/4_1_Working_in_the_cell_culture_laboratory.htm
• "Microalgal Biotechnology". 1988. M. Borowitzka & L. Borowitzka (Eds.) Cambridge University Press. Useful as a guide in commercial production of microalgae. 
  http://www.amazon.com/Micro-algal-Biotechnology-Michael-Borowitzka/dp/0521323495
• "Microalgal Culturing" by Ian Probert and Christine Klaas. Excellent online introduction to the topic; based on a short course held in Caen, France,1999
  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ina/CODENET/culturenotes.htm
  

Algae and Cyanobacteria

• Smithsonian Institution:  http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/algae/ 
• Australian Freshwater Algae-great site for intro to algae including identification keys and many photos www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/science/current_research/australian_freshwater_algae2
• Blue-Green Algal Bloom Management - a great site for the general public about cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) blooms: http://www.murraybluegreenalgae.com/ 
• Hustedt Diatom Collection, Alfred Wegner Institute, Germany
  http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Research/hustedt1.html
• Seaweed Site (includes macro and microalgal information): http://www.seaweed.ie/
• Other useful sites for intro to algae: http://www.bcb.uwc.ac.za/algae/
• Diatoms: http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/diatom.html
• Key to identifying freshwater diatoms (P. Compere)
  http://www.br.fgov.be/RESEARCH/EDITION/keydiato_BR.html
• Cyanobacteria: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanointro.html
• Toxic cyanobacteria page: http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/cyanotox/cyanotox.html
• Cyanosite (great for cyanobacteria): http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/
• Phycotoxins http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/
• Volvocales Information Project (VIP) - an excellent resource site at http://www.unbf.ca/vip/

Industrial use of microalgae

• Biotechnological & Environmental Applications of Microalgae (BEAM) http://wwwscieng.murdoch.edu.au/centres/algae/BEAM-Net/BEAMHOME.html 
• Enhanced Biofuel Technologies: www.ebtplc.com/c4.htm
• European Algae Biomass Association: eaba-association.eu/index.php
• National Renewable Energy Lab Report: A look back at the US Department of Energy's Aquatic Species Program: Biodiesel from Algae http://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy98/24190.pdf
• Oilgae http://www.oilgae.com/

Discussion/News groups

• Algae-L: see info in http://www.seaweed.ie/algae-l/
• Diatom-L: see info in http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/intro.txt
• Cyanonews http://www.vcu.edu/cyanonews/

Societies and journals

• British Phycological Society http://www.brphycsoc.org/default.lasso
• International Phycological Society http://www.intphycsoc.org/default.lasso
• Phycological Society of America: http://www.psaalgae.org/
• Phycologia http://www.intphycsoc.org/phycologia.lasso
• Journal of Applied Phycology http://www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/journalhome.htm?0921-8971

Algal Images

• Protist image data (PID) http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/protists.html
• Center for Algal Microscopy at Bowling Green State University http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/biology/facilities/algae/index.html
• Directory of Algal Images (posted by Morgan Vis, University of Ohio) http://vis-pc.plantbio.ohiou.edu/algaeimage/imageindex.htm
• Academy of Natural Sciences: Algal Image Database http://diatom.acnatsci.org/AlgaeImage/
• Dinoflagellate SEM images http://www.aves.net/algaeweb/dinopics.htm
• Protist Database, Japan protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/protist_menue.html
• Michael R. Martin's Phytoplankton Image Library http://www.cedareden.com/phyto.html
• CYTOGRAPHICS - a great image resource courtesy of Prof. Jeremy Pickett-Heaps and others http://cytographics.com/