Resources

This page provides links to other culture collections, reference materials, professional societies and journals, and books. For general information on Chlamydomonas (what is it, what is it good for) and pages about algae, photosynthesis, etc., also see the about Chlamydomonas page.

Other Algal Collections with Chlamydomonas Accessions

SAG - Sammlung von Algenkulturen, Göttingen, Germany
UTEX - University of Texas at Austin
CCAP - Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa, UK
ATCC - American Type Culture Collection
CCMP - Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton
NIES - Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan [this now includes the former IAM collection]
CPCC - Canadian Phycological Culture Centre (formerly the University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria)
ACOI - Coimbra Collection of Algae, Portugal
CCAC - Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne
CCALA - Culture Collection of the Centre of Phycology, Czech Republic
CAUP - Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University of Prague
PLY - Plymouth Culture Collection of Marine Algae, UK
RCC - Roscoff Culture Collection of Marine Phytoplankton, France

Additional Culture Collection Resources

Dunaliella Culture Collection at Brooklyn College
World Data Centre for Microorganisms - Search database for algal accessions in many collections worldwide
Alginet: Microalgae as Cell Factories for Chemical and Biochemical Productions
This is a European Commission project; the web site includes a database of algal strains and collections

Societies and Journals

Phycological Society of America
British Phycological Society
Phycological Society of Southern Africa

Newsgroups and E-mail Lists

bionet.chlamydomonas newsgroup - Available as a newsgroup on the web, or by e-mail subscription; this is the primary discussion forum on-line for Chlamydomonas researchers.
ALGAE L list

Books

The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook, Second Edition, published November 2008 (copyright date 2009). Available from Elsevier Science and Technology. From the home page, a search for "Chlamydomonas" will retrieve the information on how to order. The three volumes can be purchased individually, or as a set.
 

Volume 1, by Elizabeth H. Harris: Introduction to Chlamydomonas and Its Laboratory Use
Volume 2, edited by David B. Stern: Organellar and Metabolic Processes
Volume 3, edited by George B. Witman: Cell Motility and Behavior

index to Elsevier's Companion web site, with methods files for photosynthesis research, and many videos that supplement volume 3.
Transgenic Microalgae as Green Cell Factories. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 616. Edited by Rosa León, Aurora Galván, and Emilio Fernández, published in 2007 by Landes Bioscience and Springer Science_Business Media, LLC, New York.
The Molecular Biology of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria in Chlamydomonas, Edited by Jean-David Rochaix, Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont and Sabeeha Merchant, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers [E-mail: orderdept@wkap.nl]