NCMA (Formerly the CCMP) - The National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota

Blue Biotechnology: Harnessing the ocean's potential to benefit society.
Culturing Diversity
Promoting the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae
Maintaining the largest and most diverse collection of publicly available marine strains in the world
A biological resource that drives one of the great engines of planetary control

Featured Product/Service:

Aquaculture Express Strains

The NCMA features fourteen strains of algae that are commonly used by the...

Featured Strain:

CCMP1335, Thalassiosira pseudonana (aka 3H)

CCMP1335, is a small centric diatom that has had a large impact on algal research as a...

Featured Paper:

Genome of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum

Our featured paper reports on and examines the implications of the first red alga to have its...

Latest News & Announcements

As part of the collection management plan, a cull policy has been implemented to sustain the vitality of the collection while maintaining its diversity. The NCMA greatly respects the algal community and supporters of the collection. We are now offering the Adopt-A-Strain program to allow fellow algae lovers to preserve their favorite strain.

2014 Ocean Science Meeting

Bigelow Laboratory's National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA) is exhibiting at the 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting.

NCMA at Bigelow Laboratory - Culturing Diversity

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