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 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...

  ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP/TRAINING/WORKSHOPS                Every year Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI) organizes various Internship Training programs and 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. During December 2022, AARI conducted fifteen days summer Internship program in which students from various Institutions took part, and the program started from 19th December. The fifteen day program was well utilized by the candidates to develop their knowledge on algae and their culture techniques.  The program was started with the theory session regarding Sterilization, Media Preparation, Sample Collection, Slide Preparation, Microscopy, Documentation (Photomicrography & Camera Lucida), Culture Inoculation, Streaking techniques, Sub Culturing, ...

  ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP/TRAINING/WORKSHOPS                Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI) organizes various Internship programs and Training/Workshops on various topics to provide 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. In August 2022, AARI conducted fifteen days of summer Internship programs in which students from Marine Biology, Port Blair Campus, Pondicherry University, and the program started on 16th August. The candidates utilized the fifteen-day program to develop their knowledge of Algal Biotechnology and Seaweed Technology. The program started with the theory session regarding Algae Culture, Biomass Production, Media Preparation, Sample Collection, Slide Preparation, Microscopy, Documentation (Photomicrography & Camera Lucida), Culture Inoculation, Biomass harvesting, Biomass processing, an...

 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...

 Peter Stanley Dixon      Peter Stanley Dixon was born in Redcar, England on 29 November 1928. He was the only child of William Stanley and Nellie Dixon. He came from a poor family and completed his entire education with the help of various scholarships. He continued his education at the University of Manchester from where he received a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. Here he developed a strong foundation in what was then widely referred to as cryptogamic botany. However, upon completing his B.Sc., he turned his attention towards a group of organisms (Red Algae), that would dominate the rest of his life. His MSc thesis was on cytology and reproduction in freshwater red alga Lemanea . This has set the stage for further graduate work under the able mentorship of Kathleen M. Drew-Baker. He chooses to work on Gelidium and its relatives, a red algal group notorious for its taxonomic difficulty.            In 1954 he began his academic career...