There are limited spaces left at the forthcoming metaproteomics workshop in Sheffield on 4th and 5th of September. If you have an...

AlgalBBB was a good conference, a very good conference indeed. In amidst the beautiful setting in Colorado, together with excellent...

This is a three year project funded by The Grantham Institute, The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (The University of...

Great to hang out with Ken at Colorado State University, learning about their latest DOE algae to bio-products project (with some locally...

Its a "super strain" and ready to grow in the Phyco-Flow...

Microbial communities inhabit our entire planet and play a vital role in biogeochemical processes through to human health. Although we...

Held over three days at the East Midlands Conference Centre at the University of Nottingham, the final C1net conference hosted more than...

This Autumn I was lucky enough to spend a month in Stephen Mayfield’s laboratory at University of California, San Diego. Steve is...

A group of Sheffield architects have been designing and building an algal photobioreactor out of waste materials at a local abandoned...

The UK currently grows 95,000 tonnes of tomatoes per year, almost all of this is in heated glasshouses. The number of growers has...

We welcome our new PhD student Mengxun Shi from China. Mengxun has a BSc and MSc from Qingdao University of Science and Technology and...

Presenting our work on engineering microbial consortia with microalgae as a focal point of resource recovery. The meeting was largely...

If inorganic nutrients are being run-off into natural water systems due to intense agricultural practices, why not design an integrated...

What an adventure it has been. Nella's thesis entitled "Biotechnology Applications of Microbial Induced Defences: A Scendesmus Species...

Its sad to say goodbye to such a tremendous member of the research group but we wished Kasia well with lots and lots of pizza. The lab...

In March, I visited Raul Muñoz and his Gas Treatment and Microalgae research group in Valladolid Spain. The intention was to learn about...

Rob Speranza and his team at South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network have done a fantastic job following our NERC Innovation Award over the...

Work undertaken by our much loved ex-PhD student Dr. Anggun Siswanto has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Frontiers in...

Well done to our PDRA Mahendra, who will be developing fermentation strategies with Clostridium to grow on steam exploded and ionic...

Always good to get the team out of the Department and enjoy some Christmas spirit