Latest News

• Interview with Professor Ben Hankamer
• The construction of the SBRC
• Official Pilot Plant Launch April 2013
• Cellulose degradation and assimilation by the unicellular phototrophic eukaryote Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
• Microalgal Biotechnology: Integration and Economy
• Global carbon dioxide levels set to pass 400ppm milestone
  
• Surveying a diverse pool of microalgae as a bioresource for biotechnological applications
• Algae Fuels as an Alternative to Petroleum
• RNAi knock-down of LHCBM1, 2 and 3 increases photosynthetic H2 production efficiency of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
• Artificial photosynthesis as a frontier technology for energy sustainability

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Project Impact

Development of high-efficiency microalgae systems for biofuels, biopoducts and bioremediation.

Publications

• An economic and technical evaluation of microalgal biofuels, Nat Biotechnol, 28, 2, 126-128, 2010.
• Engineering photosynthetic light capture: Impacts on improved solar energy to biomass conversion, Plant Biotechnol J, 5, 6, 802-814, 2007.
• Structure and membrane organization of photosystem II in green plants, Annu Rev Plant Biol, 48, 641-671, 1997.
• Expanding the microalgae industry - continuing controversy or compelling case? Curr Opin Chem Biol, 17, 2013.