Canadian Phycological Culture Centre (CPCC)

for Algae, Cyanobacteria, and Lemna

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://www.wfcc.info/
• 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, USA: http://www.atcc.org
• Antarctic Protist Culture Collection at Woods Hole, USA: http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/protists/
• Australian National Algae Culture Collection (ANACC), Australia (formerly CSIRO Microalgae Research Center): http://www.csiro.au/en/Organisation-Structure/National-Facilities/Australian-National-Algae-Culture-Collection/Algal-Culture-Facility.aspx
• Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms, Canada (includes marine algae in NEPCC and Freshwater Algal Collection at UBC): http://www3.botany.ubc.ca/cccm/index.html
• Cawthron Institute’s Culture Collection of Micro-algae (CICCM), New Zealand: http://cultures.cawthron.org.nz/
• Chlamydomonas Genetics Center, USA: http://www.chlamy.org
• 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://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~cellbio/welcomeframe.html
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, UK: http://www.ife.ac.uk/ccap
• Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne (CCAC), Germany: http://www.ccac.uni-koeln.de/
• Culture Collection of Algal Laboratory, Czech Republic: http://www.butbn.cas.cz/ccala/ccala.htm
• Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University, Czech Republic: http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/algo/caup.html
• Culture Collection of Baltic Algae, Poland: www.ocean.univ.gda.pl/~ccba/ien.php
• Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae, Germany: http://cccryo.fraunhofer.de/web/infos/welcome/
• Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments, USA: http://cultures.uoregon.edu/default.htm
• Dunaliella Culture Collection, USA: http://www.dunaliella.org/dccbc/
• Hawaii Culture Collection, USA (see MarBEC): http://www.marbec.org/research/mbcc.asp
• IAM Culture Collection, Japan (Transferred to National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan): http://www.nies.go.jp/biology/mcc/home.htm
• Loras College Freshwater Diatom Collection, USA (Transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae): http://web.biosci.utexas.edu/utex/scFreshWaterDiatom.aspx
• Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture collection (MBIC), Japan (Transferred to the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) Biological Resource Center (NBRC) of Japan): http://www.nbrc.nite.go.jp/e/070328-e.html
• National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan (NIES): http://www.nies.go.jp/biology/mcc/home.htm
• Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria, France: http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/banques/PCC/
• Provasoli-Guillard National Centre for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA), USA (formerly CCMP): https://ncma.bigelow.org/
• Roscoff Culture Collection (RCC), France: http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/Phyto/RCC/index.php
• Sammlung von Algenkulturen (SAG), Germany: http://www.epsag.uni-goettingen.de
• Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Denmark: http://www.sccap.dk
• University of Texas Culture Collection of Algae, USA: 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
• FAO Guidelines for continuous mass culture of algae: http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/w3732e/w3732e06.htm#b18-2.3.5.2.%20Continuous%20culture
• "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

• AlgaeVision: Natural History Museum in London, UK www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/algaevision/index.html
• 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
• Census of Australian Marine Dinoflagellates: http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/Dinoflagellates/index_Dino.html
• Diatoms: http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/diatom.html
• Diatom identification: westerndiatoms.colorado.edu/
• Hustedt Diatom Collection, Alfred Wegner Institute, Germany:
  http://www.awi.de/en/research/research_divisions/biosciences/polar_biological_oceanography/diatom_centre/collection/
• Key to identifying freshwater diatoms (P. Compere):
  http://www.br.fgov.be/RESEARCH/EDITION/keydiato_BR.html
• Other useful sites for intro to algae: http://www.bcb.uwc.ac.za/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): http://www.eos.ubc.ca/research/phytoplankton/index.html
• Seaweed Site (includes macro and microalgal information): http://www.seaweed.ie/
• Smithsonian Institution:  http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/algae/ 
• Volvocales Information Project (VIP) - an excellent resource site at: http://www.unbf.ca/vip/
• Blue-Green Algal Bloom Management - a great site for the general public about cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) blooms: http://www.murraybluegreenalgae.com/ 
• Cyanobacteria: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanointro.html
• Cyanosite (great for cyanobacteria): http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/
• Phycotoxins: http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=11913
• Toxic cyanobacteria page: http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/cyanotox/cyanotox.html

Duckweed

• The Charms of Duckweed: www.mobot.org/jwcross/duckweed/duckweed.htm

Industrial use of microalgae

• Biotechnological & Environmental Applications of Microalgae (BEAM): http://wwwscieng.murdoch.edu.au/centres/algae/BEAM-Net/BEAMHOME.html 
• Enhanced Biofuel Technologies: http://www.ebtiplc.com/
• 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/
• Power Plant CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration): http://www.powerplantccs.com/ with FAQ: http://www.powerplantccs.com/ccs/cap/fut/alg/alg_faq.html

Discussion/News groups

• Algae-L: http://www.seaweed.ie/algae-l/
• Diatom-L: http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/intro.txt
• Cyanonews (archived material): 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 (Algal Images Repository) at Bowling Green State University: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/biology/facilities/algae/mainpage.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.ansp.org/algae_image/
• 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/
• Diatom images www.dr-ralf-wagner.de/Kieselalgen-englisch.html