Chlamydomonas Resource Center (CRC)
August 12, 2026Collection Website
Organizational structure
Academia
Collection Institution/Entity
University of Minnesota
Staff working with the Collection
5
Collection Contact
Matthew Laudon
Position of Collection contact
Co-Director
Collection Email
Collection can be contacted
Yes
- Has continued institutional support
- Interested in Culture Collections Exchange
- Interested in Collaborative Programs
- Ability to accept orphan collections
- Interested in working with samples from different repositories
- Collection contains reference strains
- Collection contains sequencing data
Collection Category
Publicly available (qualified curator, collection management policies, microbial specimens, a database of collection information, an online strain catalog, and distributes strains to the scientific community)
Capacity to accept orphan collections
Retiring researchers or graduating students can send us collections of up to several hundred strains, and we will consider incorporating them. Strains that are candidates for inclusion have been published, or characterized in some other way.
Collection follows best management practice guideline
We use procedures perfected in the Chlamydomonas community for cell maintenance and characterization over the past 75 years of research.
Organisms in Collection
Algae
Training opportunities provided by Collection
training for undergraduate employees in sterile techniques and cell culture
Funding Sources for Research performed with Collection specimens
Department of Energy (DOE), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Availability and distribution mechanisms
Fee per strain for distribution
Services provided by Collection
Storage service (safe deposit), Strain isolation/taxonomic identification, Consulting
Consultations provided by Collection
Preservation, Propagation, Shipment regulations
Genus in Collection
Species: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Quantity: 175,000
Research fields relevant to Collection
Cell biology, Ecology, General microbiology, Genetics, Industrial microbiology, Medical microbiology, Molecular biology, biochemistry