UCSD’s Protein Tag
Chemists at UC San Diego have developed a method that for the first time provides scientists the ability to attach chemical probes onto proteins and subsequently remove them…
UCSD Chemists Develop Protein Reverse Tagging Method
Chemists at UC San Diego have developed a method that for the first time provides scientists the ability to attach chemical probes onto proteins and subsequently remove them in a repeatable cycle…
ASU to Lead National Algae Testbed
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the Arizona State University led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership (ATP3) for a $15M award for its Advancements in Sustainable Algal Production opportunity…
SoCalGas, Scripps to Develop Algae Carbon Capture
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego (Scripps) have entered into an agreement focusing on the design of an innovative system in which algae…
On Developing an Algal-based Cure for Malaria
Over the past ten years, work from our lab has identified mechanisms of chloroplast gene expression that have allowed for development of recombinant protein expression and metabolic engineering in the algal…
Potential Malarial Vaccine from Algae
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that could pave the way for…
ASU’s Algae Program
Drs. Milton Sommerfeld and Thomas Dempster, of Arizona State University’s Laboratory for Algae Research and Biotech, discuss the basic building blocks of algae research at ASU to develop an alternative green source of energy…
Cal Poly Partners on Algae-Based Wastewater Plant
California Polytechnic State University, of San Luis Obispo, CA has announced a partnership with the California Energy Commission to launch an algae-based wastewater treatment plant at the San Luis…
UC Davis, U of Tokyo Collaborating on Algae Biofuels
Green Car Congress reports that a new joint project between UC Davis and the University of Tokyo, Japan, aims at a better understanding of how algae can be used to make biofuels. It is one of four new grants…
Algae at Utah State
Researchers at the Energy Dynamics Lab at Utah State University discuss methods being developed at the school to create a cost-effective biofuel made from algae…
ASU at the ABS
Arizona State University researchers took a trip to Minneapolis, Minnesota for the recent Algae Biomass Summit, to share information and discover the latest in algae biofuels, coproducts, research and production techniques…
Algae in San Diego
KPBS takes a look at some of the lab activity and scale-up work being done at UCSD, Sapphire Energy, and other leading algae research centers in San Diego…
55 Free Grants for Biofuels Training at UCSD
Applications are now available for continuing education grants at the University of California San Diego to retrain workers as general science technicians for the biofuels industry in the San Diego and…
Utah State Moves Algae Research to Oil and Gas Center
Researchers at Utah State University have moved an algal biofuels project from USU’s Logan campus to Vernal, Utah, the heart of the state’s oil and natural gas industry, according to Geiff Liesek of Deseret…
AIM Interview: UC San Diego’s Dr. Stephen Mayfield
Professor Stephen Mayfield is someone you should probably know about if you want to keep up with the key players in San Diego’s burgeoning renewable energies sector. Algae geneticist extraordinaire…
Back to Algae School
The head of the Biological Engineering Department at Utah State University shows what their biological engineering students are doing with algae to transform waste into bioenergy chemicals and other bioproducts, in the interests…
Fluid Imaging Sells Flowcam to ASU for Algae Research
Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. of Yarmouth, Maine, has announced that Arizona State University’s (ASU) Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI) has purchased a FlowCAM® imaging…
ASU Algae Researchers Link Cell Wall Degradation to CO2
A research team from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has developed a process that reprograms photosynthetic microbes to secrete lipids, making byproduct recovery and conversion to biofuels…
A.I.M. Interview: Cal Poly’s Dr. Tryg Lundquist
As an environmental engineering professor at California Polytechnic State University, in San Luis Obispo, CA, Dr. Tryg Lundquist researches how wastewater can make algae biofuel and how algae biofuel…
