The marine microbe group held a going away part for Ningdong (Daniel) Xie, a visiting Chinese scholar from Tianjin University, China. While here, Daniel studied marine protists, focusing on Labyrinthulomycetes and Fungi, in our coastal waters. Using the PICO time-series and PICO-LOVE transect he found surprising patterns in the abundance and diversity of these important …
Drs. Lu and Johnson both presented at IABBB 2019 meeting in Boulder CO. Implementation of UV-based advanced oxidation processes in algal medium reuse Z. Lu, W. Wang, J. Sha, X. Zhang, P. Sun, Q. Hu Algae show great potential as sustainable feedstock for numerous bioproducts. However, large volume of water consumption during algal biomass production …
PhD student Sarah Loftus attended the 2019 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ASLO’s mission is to “foster a diverse, international scientific community that creates, integrates and communicates knowledge across the full spectrum of aquatic sciences, advances public awareness and education about aquatic resources and research, and promotes scientific stewardship of aquatic …
PhD graduate student Sarah Loftus was the top prize winner of the biology section at the Algae Biomass Summit. The Summit is the algae industry’s premier event, where leading producers of algae products go to network with industry suppliers and technology providers, where project developers converse with utility executives, and where researchers and technology developers …
Ph.D. student Courtney traveled to Washington, D.C. to volunteer at the USA Science & Engineering Festival on Saturday, April 6th. This free 2 day event was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and had over 3,000 exhibitors and 350,000 visitors! The mission of this festival is to stimulate interest in the nation’s youth …
Associate Professor Zackary Johnson presented on the trends and patterns of coastal and ocean acidification in coastal North Carolina at the Southeastern Ocean and Coastal Acidification Network NC Stakeholder meeting. The presentation was titled, ‘Variability of the carbonate system (including acidity) in a dynamic coastal NC system’. Ocean and coastal acidification are changing the chemistry …
ZIJ presented on the diversity and activity of Prochlorococcus at the OCB2017 summer meeting at WHOI in Woods Hole, MA. The presentation, “Ribosomal RNA and DNA (23S) of Prochlorococcus reveal variable activity and abundance relationships across taxonomic ranks” was based on a study with lead author and former student Alyse Larkin, now at UCI. The …
PhD student Sarah Loftus attended the 10th annual Algae Biomass Summit in Phoenix, AZ. The summit brings together individuals from academia, industry, and government who research, lobby for, and capitalize on the products and services provided by algae, notably biofuels, food, carbon capture, wastewater treatment, and more. Sarah won first place in the Young Researcher Poster Competition, Biology Division, …
ZIJ presented at ISME16 in Montreal on the temperature regulation of Prochlorococcus photosynthesis and growth under the title, “The effect of temperature on gene expression and carbon uptake/release in diverse strains of Prochlorococcus” Its a good time to be a Microbial Ecology! Abstract: The ecological success of the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus is driven in part …
Experts in the field of algal biology shared their recent successes with participants at the DOE Algal Biology Toolbox to further the community’s understanding of the current state of the art. These presentations ensure that a range of expertise is represented at the event. ZIJ presented pilot results from MAGIC- the Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium …