The BPS Annual Meeting 2016 will be held at Bournemouth University, 22-24 June, and PHYCONET Network Director Saul Purton is convening a session on algal biotechnology, including the following presentations:
- Mike Allen (Plymouth Marine Laboratory): Algal biotechnology at PML
- Tiago Guerra (A4F, Portugal): Microalgae biotechnology - real world scale-up approaches for industrial development
- Andrew Spicer (Algenuity): Making Microalgae Work - Developing the right tools to dig into algal biology for industrial exploitation
- Colin Robinson (University of Kent): New strategies for the production of high value chemicals and proteins in transgenic Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Fayza Daboussi (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, France): Genome editing approaches to accelerate basic and applied research
- Steve Skill (Swansea University): Green Mining – Passive bioremediation and metal recovery from abandoned mine discharges using microalgae
- Ziyi Yu (University of Cambridge): One cell at a time: droplet-based microfluidics for single algal cell studies
- Christine Campbell (CCAP, Scottish Association for Marine Science): Implications of the Nagoya Protocol for algal biotechnology
- Dónal Mc Gee (Institute of Technology Sligo): Microalgal pigments: bioprospecting, biodiscovery & biorefinery
- Saul Purton (University College London): The potential of the algal chloroplast as a low-cost platform for recombinant products
Register for the whole meeting or individual days here (conference fees are due by 20 May; a late fee applies after this date).