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Roscoff Culture Collection

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This is the official BlueSky account of the Roscoff Culture Collection, one of the largest culture collections for marine microorganisms (algae, macroalgae, bacteria, protists). www.roscoff-culture-collection.org

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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Rencontre Immersion - 28/04/2026. You can find the article (in French) here: www.campusmer.fr/actualites-1... and a movie here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXzs...
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15ᵉ Rencontre Immersion : au cœur des ressources marines à la Station biologique de Roscoff
Derniers articles d'actualité des acteurs sciences et technologies du Campus mondial de la mer, en Finistère (Roscoff, Morlaix, Brest, Quimper, Concarneau, Lorient)
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Marie Walde 🌊🦠🔬 @mariescopy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Fun workshop coming up in Roscoff. You can learn building your own low-cost microscopes. Smart DIY Microscopy for Marine Biology 3-5 June 2026 🔬🌊🦠 Application deadline April 02 www.sb-roscoff.fr/en/workshop-... @embrc-france.bsky.social @gdrimabio.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social #EnderScope
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Workshop "Smart DIY Microscopy for Marine Biology" du 3-5 June 2026
This hands-on workshop introduces the EnderScope, a low-cost, open-source microscope built from a 3D printer for marine and environmental imaging.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Plongée au cœur des ressources marines de la Station Biologique de Roscoff : de l’aquarium à la culture www.campusmer.fr/agenda-renco...
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Rencontres Immersion : Station Biologique de Roscoff
Les évènements organisés par et pour les acteurs sciences technologies marines du Campus mondial de la mer, en Finistère (Roscoff, Morlaix, Brest, Quimper, Concarneau, Lorient)
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A new prasinophyte genome from an RCC strain: RCC618 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nuclear genome assembly and annotation for the phagotrophic green alga Nephroselmis pyriformis
Prasinophytes are a globally distributed, diverse polyphyletic group of photosynthetic green algae, displaying a combination of presumably ancestral traits for the Chloroplastida. The Nephroselmidoph...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Another piece of fascinating work done with RCC strains.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Fantastic work done with a very large number of RCC strains.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We have added more than 900 new GenBank sequences to the RCC database that are linked to the web page of the corresponding strains.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The RCC is a partner of @blueremediomics.bsky.social
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A paper just came out in Science about giant photosystem complex in Gephyrocapsa huxleyi RCC6660 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A new video from the MarinnoNET proejct to which RCC is a partner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkD8...
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MARINNONET Project video
YouTube video by Juan Luis Gomez Pinchetti
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A position is available at the BCCM/ULC cyanobacteria positions in Liège, Belgium. Contact: awilmotte@uliege.be
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Worshop on Blue Biotech organised by project Marinnonet Sept 19 2025 - 10:00-12:30 Register at forms.gle/GiumAL6CU8p7...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Nice work with the participation of the RCC team.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
With Ian Probert from RCC.
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BlueRemediomics @blueremediomics.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📰 We've just published a new article summarising last month's #BlueRemediomics General Assembly in Riga! Access the full article here to learn about upcoming events, project highlights and key takeaways from this event: blueremediomics.eu/recap-of-blu...
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Recap of BlueRemediomics’ Annual General Assembly in Riga - Blueremediomics
Last month, BlueRemediomics partners came together for three days in the Latvian capital to present updates and discuss the project’s progress and challenges. Hosted by the Latvian Biomedical Research...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The RCC is participating in the MALDIBANK project. MALDIBANK’s main goal is to conceptualize a global, cloud-based, open MALDI spectra databank in order to promote identification of microorganisms.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Using 2 RCC strains
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New paper using an RCC strain.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
New paper using 4 coccolithophorid strains from the RCC. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Particulate inorganic carbon in the ocean: Evaluation of discrete sampling protocols
This study evaluates the impact of sampling protocols on the measurement of particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) in ocean waters, an essential component for understanding the global carbon cycle and cl...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Le projet Marinnonet (marinnonet.eu) organise : Atelier d’innovation des Biotechnologies Bleues Lundi 19 mai de 14h00 à 16h45 à la Station Biologique de Roscoff ou en ligne Enregistrement: forms.gle/h8s6LX3dB8fj...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
For all those who love protists, have a look at this stunning magazine.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New paper using 2 RCC Pelagomonas strains, co-authored by 2 members of the RCC, Pris and Ian. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Transcriptomic response of the picoalga Pelagomonas calceolata to nitrogen availability: new insights into cyanate lyase function | Microbiology Spectrum
Vast oceanic regions are nutrient-poor, yet several microalgae thrive in these environments. While various acclimation strategies to these conditions have been discovered in a limited number of model microalgae, many important lineages remain ...
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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 26/03/2025
#VaSavoir 🌊 Depuis 150 ans, à la station biologique de Roscoff on se mouille pour étudier l’océan et le protéger. Certaines méthodes perdurent, d’autres révolutionnent la compréhension du vivant et des écosystèmes. Embarquez avec notre reporter ! 🐠 👉 youtu.be/ezzrml6RBUM
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New paper using 3 RCC strains www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Alexandrium minutum strains from a recombinant cross show correlated allelopathic activity against the diatom Chaetoceros muelleri and the parasite Amoebophrya sp., independent of PST toxicity.
Dinoflagellates of the genus Alexandrium can produce bioactive extracellular compounds (BECs) responsible for a wide range of effects on many organism…
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Common garden experiment with 4 RCC strains onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Evolution Under Competition Increases Population Production by Reducing the Density‐Dependence of Net Energy Fluxes and Growth
Using experimental evolution, we determined the impact of intra- versus interspecific competition on three marine phytoplankton species. We found that the species achieved the same evolutionary outco...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New paper using strains RCC1383 and 3387: "Metabolic interdependence and rewiring in Radiolaria-microalgae Photosymbioses" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New paper in ISME Journal using strain RCC21: "Cellular heterogeneity in metabolism and associated microbiome of a non-model phytoflagellate" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Daniel Vaulot @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Join a world renowned marine lab in France. New Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) opened in the Biological Station in Roscoff. The position is focused on the ecological, evolutionary, and functional roles of marine fungi, crucial to understanding our oceans. www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/2025/02/2...
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Open position Junior Professor Chair (CPJ)
Open position Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) 2025. CNRS EE-BIO
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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales -> Application date: March 21, 2025. Open to MS + PhD students + postdocs Application site: bit.ly/phageschool2...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New goniomonad genus and species with strains deposited in the Roscoff Culture Collection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Electron Microscopy images of new genus
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The RCC is offering two 5-day training courses in English - Phytoplankton taxonomy from June 02 to 06, 2025 tinyurl.com/ycym9hm2 - Microalgae cultivation from September 29 to October 03, 2025. tinyurl.com/4c743cn5 These two courses are aimed at beginner/intermediate level students
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Taxonomie du phytoplancton marin - Formation Continue Sorbonne Université
Accédez à notre catalogue de formation professionnelle continue à Sorbonne université
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Mixotrophic growth of RCC2488 strain isolated during the MALINA cruise link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Mixotrophic Cultivation of Polar Microalga Chlamydomonas sp. RCC2488 (Malina) Using Potato Peel Hydrolysates as Carbon Source - BioEnergy Research
The polar microalga Chlamydomonas sp. RCC2488 (malina) exhibits high PUFA production under phototrophic conditions, but there is no evidence of heterotrophic or mixotrophic growth. Hence, the grow and...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A paper on chromatic adaptation of Synechococcus using RCC strains. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography
Chromatic acclimation is an advantageous evolutionary trait and influences phytoplankton competition and global distribution.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Genome of the diatom RCC7813 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High-quality genome assembly and annotation of Thalassiosira rotula (synonym of Thalassiosira gravida) - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - High-quality genome assembly and annotation of Thalassiosira rotula (synonym of Thalassiosira gravida)
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Paper using RCC1447 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ecotoxicological effects and bioconcentration of a dissolved Organophosphate Ester's mixture in the marine flagellate Isochrysis galbana
Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are emerging organic contaminants due to their widespread use, environmental persistence and bioaccumulation potential. …
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New Allobodo species which is deposited to the RCC under RCC11336. Remember that you can deposit strains from newly described species to the Roscoff Culture Collection. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free‐living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae
Kinetoplastids are a large and diverse protist group, spanning ecologically important free-living forms to medically important parasites. The taxon Allobodonidae holds an unresolved position within k...
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Armando Rubio Ramos @bioarm.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It's #FluorescenceFriday so here we show a expanded dividing Pyramimonas diskoicola from the @roscoff-collection.bsky.social Note the beatiful fibers of centrin (in yellow), and check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #expansion #ProtistsOnSky
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Scrol manages the RCC website. Our best wishes to SCROL for 2025.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
New paper using coccolithophorids strains from the RCC www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exploring proteins within the coccolith matrix - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Exploring proteins within the coccolith matrix
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
New paper using 4 Synechococcus strains from the RCC nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Environment‐ and system‐specific interactions between population and trait dynamics
Understanding population dynamics across environmental contexts is essential to predict ecosystem stability. Functional traits influence population growth, which can in turn influence the traits and ...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This very nice paper uses four diatoms strains from the Roscoff Culture Collection: RCC1617, RCC1991, RCC2270, RCC4659.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
An impressive strain database.
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Using Phaeocystis strain RCC1383.
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Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host
Abstract. Metabolic exchange is one of the foundations of symbiotic associations between organisms and is a driving force in evolution. In the ocean, photo
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Hopefully, more strains for the Roscoff Culture Collection... 😀
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CCAP @ccapoban.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
New paper citing strain CCAP 946/6 Prymnesium parvum: "Prymnesium parvum: Correlation between lytic activity and prymnesin content, both increasing with phosphorus-depletion and lower cell density" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Prymnesium parvum: Correlation between lytic activity and prymnesin content, both increasing with phosphorus-depletion and lower cell density
The haptophyte Prymnesium parvum is a widespread microalga associated with fish kill events. It is a mixotrophic alga, which combines different trophi…
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Using strain RCC1198 Chauhan, N. & Rickaby, R.E.M. 2024. Differential impacts of pH on growth, physiology, and elemental stoichiometry across three coccolithophore species. Limnology and Oceanography. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images for Gephyrocapsa huxleyi, Chrysotila carterae, and Coccolithus braarudii (from top to bottom, respectively). Images are ordered from low CO2 (high pH) to high CO2 (low pH) from left to righ
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A paper using Synechococcus RCC2382 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The dominant marine Synechococcus clade II exhibits a non-canonical transcriptional response to cope with thermal stress
Temperature significantly impacts the growth and distribution of marine cyanobacteria, which employ diverse strategies to cope with temperature variat…
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A new paper using and mentioning a large number of strains from the Roscoff Culture Collection. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Protists and protistology in the Anthropocene: challenges for a climate and ecological crisis - BMC Biology
Eukaryotic microorganisms, or “protists,” while often inconspicuous, play fundamental roles in the Earth ecosystem, ranging from primary production and nutrient cycling to interactions with human heal...
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Some visitors for the Roscoff Culture Collection....
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Roscoff Culture Collection @roscoff-collection.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Roscoff Culture Collection is part of AQUASERV.
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