Internet Resources for Phycologists:Research Groups






Briefing about Cyanobacteria:
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/webb/BOT311/Cyanobacteria/Cyanobacteria.htm
A nice page describing in brief, all the aspects of Cyanophyta with colorful photographs and illustrations

Ben Gurion University:
http://www.bgu.ac.il/BIDR/research/biotech/algal/index.html
J. Blaustein Institute for Desert Research Ben Gurion University. Their goal is to develop the biotechnology involved in mass production of microalgae for various commercial purposes. Has a nice sized list of their research publications.

Finnish Institute of Marine Research:
http://www2.fimr.fi/en/itamerikanta.html
Monitors and relates information about phytoplankton and cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea.
University of California:
http://ucjeps.herb.berkeley.edu/rlmoe/tioc/ioctoc.html
University of California at Berkeley. Started as a reference in order to catalogue algae in the Indian Ocean region. An extensive site dealing with taxonomy and nomenclature. Also contains a search engine for its bibliographic references.

Kazusa DNA Research Institute:
http://www.kazusa.or.jp/en/
Large scale DNA research facility involving plant and human sequencing. Under database link one can find Cyanobase and other plant related sequencing projects

Murray Regional Algal Coordinating Committee:
http://www.murraybluegreenalgae.com/
Website provides information about toxic cyanobacterial blooms.

Northern Arizona University:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~lf2/
Phycology Homepage. Information about various types of algae and their classification.

University College, Galway:
http://www.seaweed.ie/
Has information on all aspects marine algal biology. Contains Algaebase which is a searchable database, this link also has journals and other literature.

Boston University:
http://bio.bu.edu/~golubic/
Research focus: Microbial Bioerosion, Ecology and Diversity of Cyanobacteria

Texas A&M University:
http://www.bio.tamu.edu/users/sgolden/public/
Research focus: cyanobacterial circadian rhythms and regulation of photosynthesis genes

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