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Ph.D. position in algal biotechnology || Leipzig University, Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biology, Plant Physiology group of Prof. Severin Sasso, Leipzig, Germany

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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 (e.
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Post-doctoral fellow (M/F) in genetics and/or biochemistry of photosynthesis || Post doc vacancy in phycology || Algae academic vacancies

 Post Doc in Chloroplast Biology and Light-sensing in Microalgae Department Post-doctoral fellow (M/F) in genetics and/or biochemistry of photosynthesis We offer a post-doctoral position for up to 3 years in the scope of a National Research Agency (ANR)-funded project. We aim to understand the molecular events taking place upon Photosystem II damage. This is a multidisciplinary and collaborative program, and we are looking specifically for someone with experience in membrane protein biochemistry and/or genetics and mutagenesis. PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, and related topics is a requirement. There is no strict deadline for the application, but the earliest starting date is May 2023. Make sure your candidate profile is correctly completed before applying. Your profile information complements that associated with each job application. In order to increase your visibility on our Job Portal and thus allow recruiters to consult your candidate profile, you have the possibility of d
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Post-doctoral position in genetics and molecular biology of a metal-tolerant green microalga || Post doc vacancy in phycology || Algae academic vacancies

Post doc vacancy in phycology || Algae academic vacancies  A 2-year post-doctoral position funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) is available starting September 2023 at the Laboratory of Plant & Cell Physiology (LPCV) in Grenoble, France ( https://www.lpcv.fr/en ). The candidate will work in the Metal Stress team to develop molecular and genetic tools to analyze the response and adaptation to metals of a newly isolated metal-tolerant green microalga. Pollution of ecosystems by trace metal elements is a major and ever-growing threat to environmental and human health. A better understanding of the effects of metals on plants and microalgae is critical to develop approaches for treating contaminated environments using phytoremediation and phycoremediation. The characterization of organisms that tolerate and accumulate metals is essential to reach this objective as these organisms evolved sophisticated molecular mechanisms to cope with toxic elements. The Demonia
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Location: France
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Scientist of the Week - Prof. George Papenfuss | Prominent Algologists around the World

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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 life histories. Papenfuss
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Scientist of the Week - Prof. Michael Neushul Jr. | Prominent Algologists around the World

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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 and n
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Location: Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI), 9/936 Mridula Nivas, Sivaram Ave, Sivagami Nagar, Medavakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600100, India
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Scientist of the Week - British Phycologist Joanna M. Kain | Prominent Algologists around the World

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 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 phytoplankton, which she accepted and completed he
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Scientist of the Week Peter Stanley Dixon || British Phycologist | Prominent Algologists around the World

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 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 by assuming the position of Assistant Lecturer at the
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Location: Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI), 9/936 Mridula Nivas, Sivaram Ave, Sivagami Nagar, Medavakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600100, India
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Scientist of the Week Prof. Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar, Indian Phycologists | Prominent Algologists around the World

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            Prof. MOP Iyengar                Prof. Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar was born in Madras (now Chennai) on December 15, 1886, to Shree M O Alasingaracharya and Mrs. Alamelu Ammal. He graduated from Presidency College in 1906, while completed his post-graduation degree in 1909. No wonder the family tradition and background of leading solicitors, educationalists,s and philosophers encouraged him to go for higher studies. He served for more than a decade from 1920 at Presidency college, teaching and organizing research in Botany and more particularly in Algology. Before that, he briefly served at Government Museum (Natural History) and engaged in Teachers Training in Natural Science. He left for London and finished his Ph.D. in 1932 under none other than Prof. Felix Eugen Fritsch. On his return, he became Professor of Botany at Madras University - a position he occupied until his retirement in 1944. Nevertheless, retirement did not impede his research, he continued to be
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Location: Shree Gijubhai Badheka Rd, Takhteshwar, Vidhyanagar, Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364002, India
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Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott Hawai'ian Phycologist | Prominent Algologists around the World | Scientist of the Week

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  Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott, whose native Hawai'ian name was Isabella Kauakea (White Rain of Hana) Yau Yung Aiona was born on June 20, 1919. Her father was ethnically Chinese while her mother was a Native Hawaiian. Abbott was the only girl and second youngest in a family of eight siblings. She received her undergraduate degree in botany at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in 1941, a master's degree in botany from the University of Michigan in 1942, and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. In that era, women with PhDs were scarce and faculty positions for them were even scarcer.  She was the first Native Hawai’ian woman to earn a Ph.D. in science.  She married a zoologist Donald Putnam Abbott, who had been a fellow student at the University of Hawaii as well as Berkeley. The couple moved to Pacific Grove, California where her husband taught at the Hopkins Marine Station run by Stanford University.  For the first f
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Prof. Paul Claude Silva American Phycologists | Prominent Algologists around the World | Scientist of the Week

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  Prof. Paul Claude Silva      Prof. Paul Claude Silva, with whom, I had a brief interaction during 2010 when I came across a specimen of Codium collected from one of the islands of Gulf of Kutch. It was so different from the rest of the species, I encountered before, in its gross morphology and anatomy as well, that I thought of describing it as new species. However, before that, I just wanted to confirm, if my conclusion of it being new species is true or not. And who could have been better than Prof. Paul Silva - a leading authority on Codium - to confirm. To my great surprise, Prof. Silva replied instantly to my email and send me some literature on similar species described before offering me help to prepare a manuscript, unfortunately, which never happened and the species still remained undescribed. Paul was born in San Diego, California, USA, on 31 October 1922. After graduation, and a one-year post-doctoral fellowship investigating sewage treatment-pond algae, Paul was hired
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