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 PhD Studentship - Algae        Dr Jonathan Lee ,  Dr Gary Stephen Caldwell  Friday, May 31, 2024  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide) About the Project PhD project part of the  CDT in Process Industries: Net Zero . The successful PhD student will be co-supervised by academics from the  Process Intensification Group  at Newcastle University.  Microalgae are playing increasingly prominent roles in wastewater bioremediation, where their well-known ability to absorb metals, nitrogen and phosphorous is used in solar driven processes that clean up the wastewater. A process co-developed by Newcastle University and Northumbrian Water Ltd (NWL) and installed at the Bran Sands treatment works on Teesside, uses an ammonophilic microalga ( Chlorococcum  sp.) originally isolated from Bran Sands to remediate ammonium from the site’s anaerobic digesters. The process is stable, well characterised, and is being implemen...

 Ph.D. position in algal biotechnology PhD position - 3 years (m/f/d) Algal biotechnology Leipzig University, Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biology, Plant Physiology group of Prof. Severin Sasso, Leipzig, Germany Start: 1 July 2024 Deadline: 7 May 2024 The Plant Physiology group at the Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, offers a Ph.D. position (Promotionsstelle) starting from 1 July 2024, subject to formal funding approval. Activities and responsibilities The unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii secretes substantial amounts of glycolate under photorespiratory conditions (Taubert et al., Plant Biotechnol. J. 17, 1538-1546 (2019)). As glycolate is an important industrial chemical, its production in a photosynthetic microorganism opens up the long-term potential to establish a biotechnological industry based on renewable resources. The aim of a new third-party-funded project is to improve glycolate secretion. For this purpose, we want to use physical mutagenesis...

 AARI INTERNSHIP / TRAINING/WORKSHOP PROGRAM ABOUT ANNAKKILI AMMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AARI) Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI) is the first algal biotechnology training and Research institute in Chennai. The prime focus of the institute is to develop an industrial-ready workforce as well as algal biotechnological entrepreneurs. Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI) possesses a good number of Ph.D.'s and M.Sc. holders as scientific officers and trainers. The team is led by well-renowned scientist Prof. B.B. Chaugule.­   ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP/TRAINING/WORKSHOPS Every year Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI) organizes various Internship programs and Training/Workshops on various topics with the aim of providing hands-on training exposure on various techniques of Biology. The objective is to bring the students and young researchers into one platform to improve their practical skills. Streams Available to Choose 1.    ...

 Dear delegates, On the day of "World Algae Day" Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI), organizes quiz on Algology.  all participants who secure more than a 50% score will receive the printable e-certificate. Your certificate will be shared via google drive after finishing the quiz kindly check your drive for the certificate, if you are not receiving your certificate within 20 mins consider you have failed in the quiz... Good Luck Quiz Closed... check home page for other quiz programs Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI), conducts a series of International Bioscience webinar series and Quiz program to improve student's knowledge on various biological and other topics. Join the Telegram Broadcast for more details and webinar joining links https://t.me/aari_bioscience Some Practice tests available on our Blog AARI quiz on teaching and research aptitude   AARI Quiz on Environment Part 1 AARI Quiz on Environment Part 2 AARI Quiz on Environment Part 3 A...

Prof. George Papenfuss      The South African-born phycologist, Prof. George Papenfuss spent most of his career as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Papenfuss was a student at the University of Cape Town before moving to the United States in 1926. He has worked as a door-to-door salesman, which greatly improved his communication in English, he later enrolled at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, for the agricultural program. Papenfuss began to specialize in phycology at this time and completed a doctoral thesis on the life history of the brown algae Ectocarpus, in 1933.       The same year he married fellow graduate student 'Emma Johnstone' and spent 1934-1935 studying marine algae at the universities of Lund and Uppsala in Sweden, with phycologist Harald Kylin and Nils Svedelius. In Sweden, he became especially interested in South African phycology and in 1935 returned to Cape Town, his home country to study brown algae...

Prof. Michael Neushul Jr.  Prof. Michael Neushul Jr. was a quick-witted man of boundless enthusiasm and imagination, Mike was a font of new ideas and ingenious devices. During his career, Neushul attempted topics ranging from ecology to ultrastructure, extending both micro and macroalgae, but his special interest remained in Macrocystis.  Born in Shanghai, China in 1933 - where his father was a Pilot and businessman- Mike settled in California but traveled the seven continents. He entered the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) intended to become an elementary school teacher. But his lifelong interest in marine plants was ignited in Arthur Haupt's botany course at UCLA. Through Haupt, he met renowned algologist E. Yale Dawson, who inspired Mike to enter the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and study the growth and reproduction of giant kelp with Francis Haxo. Dawson and Mike worked together on the distribution and taxonomy of marine algae in southern California ...

 Scientist of the Week August 2021 Prof. Joanna M. Kain     Prof.  Joanna M. Kain was a New Zealand-born British Phycologist. She was born in 1930 to an English mother and a Kiwi father and moved to London at the age of 2 and spent most of her life in the UK. Her father named her Dorothy Kain, which her mother never liked, and thus re-named her as Joanna - after her favorite doll - by this name she was known to the Phycologist world over, Joanna Jones (Kain).      Although her early education was disrupted with moves to 10 different schools, she eventually made it to University College London in 1949, where she became attracted to seaweeds under the influence of  Prof. G E Fogg. Her undergraduate research project was on patterns of intertidal zonation around the Isle of Wight. She was particularly interested in intertidal ecology, but the Institute of Seaweed Research, offered her a research problem to investigate the growth of marine phytoplankt...