The Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae is hosted at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT in Potsdam-Golm near Berlin. The CCCryo is specialised on cryophilic freshwater and permafrost microalgae from polar and alpine environments, the so-called snow algae. First strains were collected on expeditions to Spitsbergen in 1999 and since then research on the phylogeny, ecology, and adaptations of this group of extremophiles began.
Purpose
The CCCryo serves as a bioressource of extremophiles for public and industrial research. Strains may be ordered via these websites. For detailed information on current studies performed at IBMT please refer to the website of the institution’s workgroup Extremophile Research.