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SUMMARY:Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biol
 ogy perspective - Maria Huete Ortega\, Smith Lab
DTSTART:20171026T120000Z
DTEND:20171026T123000Z
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CONTACT:Pallavi Singh
DESCRIPTION:Microalgae have great potential as a biofuel feedstock\, and t
 he conditions that stimulate lipid biosynthesis (the precursors of biofuel
 s) have been investigated extensively in the last few decades. One of the 
 widely used triggers for microalgal lipid production is Nitrogen limitatio
 n/starvation in the culture medium. However\, the use of this trigger is a
 ssociated with a reduction in cell growth which leads to lipid productivit
 ies lower than those necessary for the development of efficient industrial
  exploitations. In the BBSRC-funded India-UK project “Sustainable bioene
 rgy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective (SuBB)” 
 we aimed to overcome this caveat through a systems biology study. In this 
 presentation\, results from two of the research lines developed during the
  project will be discussed. On the one hand\, I will talk about the optimi
 zation of lipid productivity in industrially relevant microalgal species b
 y manipulating culture conditions following approaches from the industrial
  engineering field. On the other hand\, I will present results from the st
 udy of the metabolic regulatory mechanisms involved in the lipid biosynthe
 sis of the microalgae Phaeodactylum tricornutum. To address this we focuse
 d on investigating the cascade of changes of the metabolic response at the
  transcriptomic\, proteomic and metabolic levels during the early stages o
 f nitrogen deprivation\, and how these were related to later changes in mi
 croalgal physiology.
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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