Banco Espanol de Algas

The Spanish Bank of Algae (BEA) is an infrastructure of the Universidad of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria managed by the Canarian Science and Technology Park Foundation (FCPCT). Its basic objectives are the isolation, characterization, conservation, supply and development of cultivation techniques and applications of microalgae and cyanobacteria from a scientific-technological point of view. The BEA is a member of the European Culture Collections Organisation (ECCO), of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) and is included in the World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WFCC-MIRCEN), being accredited before the Government of Spain as the international authority for the deposit of microorganisms, in accordance with the provisions established in the Budapest Treaty. Strains of microalgae from tropical and subtropical regions are conserved in the BEA, particularly from the Macaronesian region. This collection of strains (> 1700 clonal strains) offers great potential for the de...