Algal Culture Collections:

Europe

• SAG (Sammlung fur Algenkulturen) – Germany
• CCAC (Central Collection of Algal Cultures; previously Cologne Algal Culture Collection) – Germany
• CCCryo (Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae) – Germany
• MZCH-SVCK (Microalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg Sammlung von Conjugaten-Kulturen) – Germany
• CAUP (Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University of Prague – Czech Republic
• CCALA (Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms) – Czech Republic
• RCC (Roscoff Culture Collection) – France
• PCC (Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria) – France
• Algobank Caen (Collection de Cultures de Microalgues – Universite de Caen Normandie) – France
• PMC-ALCP (Paris Museum Collection of Cyanobacteria and the Living Collection of Microalgae) – France
• BCCM/DCG (Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms: Microalgae) – Belgium
• BCCM/ULC (Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms: Cyanobacteria) – Belgium
• BMCC (Basque Microalgae Culture Collection) – Spain
• BEA (Banco Espanol de Algas) – Spain
• CCVIEO Culture Collection, focused on HAB species – Spain 
• ACOI (Coimbra Collection of Algae) – Portugal
• CCBA (Culture Collection of Baltic Algae) – Poland
• SZCZ (Szczecin Diatom Culture Collection) – Poland (website not working when checked July 2025)
• NORCCA (Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae at NIVA, incorporating cultures from the former SCCAP) – Norway
• TAU-MAC (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Microalgae and Cyanobacteria Culture Collection) – Greece
• CoSMi (Collection of Marine Microorganisms) – Italy
• IPPAS Culture Collection (Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences) – Russia
• MACC (Mosonmagyarovar Algal Culture Collection) – Hungary (website not working when checked July 2025)

North America & Canada

• UTEX (Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin) – USA
• NCMA (National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota, Bigelow; previously CCMP) – USA
• ATCC (Americal Type Culture Collection) – USA
• ARC (Algal Resources Collection – focused on HAB species) – USA
• Antarctic Protist Culture Collection – USA
• Chlamydomonas Resource Center – USA
• Tetrahymena Stock Center – USA
• CCCM (Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms) – Canada
• CPCC (Canadian Phycological Culture Centre for Algae, Cyanobacteria and Lemna at the University of Waterloo) – Canada

Australia & New Zealand

• ANACC (Australian National Algae Culture Collection) – Australia
• CICCM (Cawthron Institute Culture Collection of Microalgae) – New Zealand

Asia

• NIES Microbial Culture Collection – Japan
• KU-MACC (Kobe University Macroalgal Culture Collection) – Japan
• TISTR Culture Collection (Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research) – Thailand
• FACHB (Freshwater Algae Culture Collection at the Institute of Hydrobiology) – China
• INACC (Iranian National Algae Culture Collection) – Iran (website not working when checked July 2025)

Culture Collection Information

• UKBRCN – The United Kingdom Biological Resource Centre Network
• ECCO – European Culture Collections’ Organisation
• WFCC – World Federation for Culture collections
• WDCM – WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Center for Microorganisms
• WDCM-GCM – global catalogue of strains (covers all types of  microorganisms)

Growth Media

• MediaDive – the world’s largest collection of cultivation media

General Phycology and Protistology:

• British Phycological Society (BPS)
• Phycological Society of America
• Protistology UK – formerly the British Society for Protist Biology
• Algal Information Network – developed by EnAlgae to support the development of the algae sector in Europe, part of the GENIALG project
• Chlamydomonas Resource Centre
• AlgaeVision – database and virtual collection of images of freshwater and terrestrial algae collected in Britain and Ireland
• The Fritsch Collection of Freshwater, Brackish and Terrestrial Algal Illustrations
• Algae World – information on algae, especially the research and teaching at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
• Plankton Chronicles Project – a series of short videos combining art and science, revealing the beauty and diversity of organisms adrift in the currents.
• The Algae Society – Bioart Design Lab – A gathering of artists, scholars, and scientists who come together to create artwork, workshops, writings, and exhibitions for the general public to experience algae at the macro and micro levels.

 Suppliers of bulk cultures and concentrates, and/or photobioreactors:

• Varicon Aqua (UK) 
• Algenuity (UK)
• Industrial Plankton (USA)
• Reed Mariculture  (USA)

Taxonomy and Classification resources:

• AlgaeBase – global algal database of taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information
• CyanoDB – online database of cyanobacterial genera
• DiatomBase – online database of diatom genera and information
• Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland – web-based diatom flora and comprehensive taxonomic review of diatoms in the British Isles
• WORMS – World Register of Marine Species