By Rawirat Pansomsuay My First Month as an Exchange Student in the UK   🌱 The Science Part   Hello everyone, and thank you for reading my very first blog! My name is Rawirat Pansomsuay, and I am a second-year PhD student from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand. My supervisor in Thailand is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cherdsak Maneeruttanarungroj, who has supported and guided me throughout my research journey. I feel incredibly lucky to have the opportun

John Howard The science part I’ve just got back from visiting Prof Nina Lin’s lab at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I have no...

Jags Pandhal I was really lucky to participate in my first EIT sponsored "algae school" last week in Iceland. The event was organised...

AlgalBBB Conference in Pheonix Arizona Several of us attended the International Conference of Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts,...

Jags Pandhal Mixtures of algal biomass, PHA's etc. Good times were had visiting the Warwick Manufacturing Group site as part of our EPSRC...

Helen Wright For the final stage of my PhD experimental work I packed up my last samples and headed down to Ludger Ltd in Oxfordshire for...

We welcome our new postdoc, Dr. John Howard, to the team. John recently completed a postdoc at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine...

Amy Birss In January, I moved to Singapore to join the Nagarajan lab at the A* Genome Institute in Singapore, with the A* Research...

Jose Cachay On March 28th, I had the opportunity to visit AlgaeCytes as part of a PhycoClub BBSRC funded visit, and it was an...

This year's Annual Microbiology Society conference took place in Liverpool over 4 days. We had four of us in attendance at the event,...

Had an excellent time attending this symposium last week. It focussed on health, nutrition and medical applications from algae. We hard...

By Nefeli Pontillo (Imperial College London) I had the pleasure of visiting the Microbial Systems Engineering laboratory at the...

Ian Watson is leading a £2m project on synthetically engineered algae to improve gut function and human nutrition. To discuss the project...

By Jose Cachay As part of my PhD research, I had the incredible opportunity to visit Wageningen University in the Netherlands for a...

We say goodbye to one of our treasured PDRA's. Baraa joined the group three years ago, and brought some much needed creativity into the...

By Elbaraa Elghazy Recently, we had the privilege of attending the 9th International Conference on Biotechniques for Air Pollution...

Chandra Ramalingam I recently had the exciting opportunity to attend the 14th European Oral Microbiology Workshop in Valencia, Spain. It...

by Luke Richardson Last Thursday evening, I took part in PubHD. This is a monthly fun thing where anyone who has done their own...

Helen Wright After a tense few weeks following the severe floods in Kenya, our long-awaited visit to Industry Collaborator, Sanergy, was...

By Amy Birss I recently had the incredible opportunity to attend and present at ChemEngDayUK 2024, hosted by Imperial College London....