compiled by Rowena Stern, UBC, Canada
status quo February 2010

last updated by M. Hoppenrath 2018

 

 

 

 

 

Australia
MUACC = Murdoch University Algal Culture Collection, Michael A. Borowitzka, borowitz@possum.murdoch.edu.au
Australian National Algae Culture Collection = CSIRO NACC

 

 

Brazil
UFScarCC = Freshwater Microalgae Collection Cultures, Armando a. Henriques Vieira, ahvieira@power.ufscar.br
SMIP = Secao de Maricultura, Naoyo Yamanaka, (55) 132-368022
IOUSP = Marine Microalgae Culture Collection, Ana Maria Pires-Vanin, secrdob@netuno.io.usp.br

 

Canada
CCCM = Canadian Centre for the Culture of Microorganisms , houses NEPCC (marine) and FACC (Freshwater), Donna Dinh, cccm@interchange.ubc.ca
UTCC = University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria   = now called Canadian Phycological Culture Centre at University of Toronto (CPCC), Judy Acreman, jacreman@uwaterloo.ca

 

China
CCTCC = Chinese Centre for Type Cultures Collections, Chengxiang Fang, cctcc@whu.edu.cn
CMBGCAS = Collection of Marine Biological Germplasm, Xiao-Yan Hu, xyhu@ms.qdio.ac.cn

 

Denmark
SCCAP = Scandinavian Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa 

 

France
ALCP = Algotheque du Laboratoire de Cryptogamie, Alain Coute, acoute@mnhn.fr
Algobank-Caen , Veron Benoit, benoit.veron@unicaen.fr
RCC = Roscoff Culture Collecton , Daniel Vaulot, vaulot@sb-roscoff.fr
NCC = Nantes Culture Collection, Vincent Turpin, Vincent.Turpin@univ-nantes.fr

 

Germany
CCAC = Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne , Barbara Melkonian, barbara.melkonian@uni-koeln.de
SAG = Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Göttingen , epsag@uni-goettingen.de ; Maike Lorenz, mlorenz@uni-goettingen.de ; Thomas Friedl, tfriedl@uni-goettingen.de

 

Japan
NIES = Microbial Culture Collection , Fumai Kasai, Kasaif@nies.go.jp

 

Mexico
CODIMAR = Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, Lourdes Morquecho, lamorquecho@cibnor.mx

 

New Zealand
CICCM = Cawthron Institute Culture Collection, Krystyna Ponikla, Kirsty.Smith@cawthron.org.nz

Microalgae culture collection

 

Norway
NORCCA = Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae, NIVA
now includes the former Danish algal culture collection SCCAP

 

Russia
CALU = Collection of Algae in Leningrad, St. Petersburg, State University, Boris.Gromov@paloma.spbu.ru
IPPAS = Culture Collection of Microalgae , kuptsova@ippras.ru
PGC = Peterhof Genetic Collection of Microalgae, cas@cas.usr.pu.ru

 

USA
ARC = Algal Resources Collection , Carmelo Tomas & Stephen Eitelmann,  tomasc@uncw.edu  &  eitelmans@uncw.edu
Antarctic Protist Culture Collection (private), David Caron & Rebecca Gast, dcaron@usc.edu & rgast@whoi.edu
ATCC = American Type Culture Collection , Raymond H. Cypess, rcypess@atcc.org
NCMA = The Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota, Michael Lomas, ncma@bigelow.org
UTEX = The Culture Colleciton of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin , Jerry Brand, Jbrand@mail.utexas.edu

 

United Kingdom
CCAP = Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa , Frithjof Kuepper, Frithjof.Kuepper@sams.ac.uk
MBA collection = Plymouth Culture Collection of Marine Algae

 

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