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Algae photobioreactor manufacturing facility opens in Atlanta

Atlanta is the new home for an Australian-based algae developer’s photobioreactor manufacturing facility. The 18,000 square foot plant will fabricate Algae.Tec’s algae production system that is based on readily available technology, according to Peter Hatfull, managing director for the company. Hatfull spoke with Biodiesel Magazine about the new plant and the company’s establishment of a level-one American Depository Receipt Program that will allow Americans to buy stock in the company during his North American tour…….

More to read here: http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/7694/algae-photobioreactor-manufacturing-facility-opens-in-atlanta

Plant lives inside animal: algae invade amphibian cells

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Algae inside translucent salamander eggs (Image: PNAS)

The salamander eggs appear green because of the algae inside

Researchers have discovered a unique and rather weird example of a plant living inside an animal.

A team from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, discovered that a green alga invades tiny developing salamander embryos.

This is the first documented case of a plant living in partnership, or symbiosis, with a vertebrate.

Even more strangely, the researchers think the salamanders might inherit the alga from their parents.

The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Read the whole article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9446000/9446530.stm

1st International Conference “The Molecular Life of Diatoms”

General Algae News Biofuels, Biotechnology, Eco-Systems Biology, Environmental Biomarkers, Membrane Transporters, Metabolism, Regulation of Metabolism, Symbiosis and Parasitism 0 Comment

The first confernce will happen at:

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA USA

June 5th-9th 2011

Maintopics are:

Genomes and Molecular Genetics: Genome Evolution, Metagenomics, Sexual Reproduction, RNA Metabolism, Molecular Genetic Tools

Cell Biology: Organelles, Cytoskeleton, Cell Division and Cytokinesis, Protein Transport, Cell Wall Formation, Adhesion

Physiology and Ecology: Eco-Systems Biology, Membrane Transporters, Metabolism of C, N and Si, Regulation of Metabolism, Chemical Ecology, Symbiosis and Parasitism

Applications in Nano-, Bio- and Environmental Technology: Environmental Biomarkers, Biofuels, Silica-based and Silica-derived Functional Materials, Specialty Products

More info and Source: http://www.lifeofdiatoms.org/

Worldwide largest closed algae production plant

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IGV hands over worldwide largest closed algae production plant in Spain

Anlage_Spanien_1 After EADS and IGV together demonstrated the first flight with 100% algal fuel on the international air show ILA 2010, a further milestone was achieved in the development of algae mass cultivation for oil-production. On February 10, 2011 the algae production plant „PBR 85.000“ of the IGV GmbH Potsdam was handed over ready for production and accepted by the Spanish Aurantia-group.
The site is situated in the sun-drenched Andalusia in Southern Spain, near to Jerez. The photobioreactor = PBR has a total volume of 85.000 liter and is therefore the world’s largest closed facility for the production of microalgae ever build and successfully brought into operation. In 35 kilometer glass tube on a footprint of 1.000 m², in which algae capture sunlight and efficiently photosynthesize, they generate energy rich oils which can be used in the production of fuels.

Up to now such a density was never reached and implemented so far. The 85.000 liter- facility is a culmination point in the 30 year development work of IGV as well as internationally for the development of microalgal biotechnology.
Nevertheless IGV researchers do not dwell on this milestone but already develop a new and even more efficient reactor type in which algae, for instance for aviation fuels, will be produced economically.
The Land Government of Brandenburg together with large corporations strongly back this development.

Source: http://www.igv-gmbh.com/news/press/worldwide-largest-closed-algae-production-plant.html