Updates from the researchers
Find out more about the institutes working within BioMara and the scientist and stakeholder facilitators at each
- Cultivating seaweeds
- Lars Brunner reports on BioMara’s macroalgal cultivation research which ‘feeds’ material into the anaerobic digestion trials and polyphenol characterisation.
- Finding genes that produce oil in microalgae
- Carole Shellcock, a PhD student at Scottish Association for Marine Science is investigating the genes that code for neutral lipids, triacylglycerides.
- Modelling the macroeconomic impacts of algae production
- Grant Allan, a post doc at University of Strathclyde is nvestigating the potential economic and social impacts of biofuels from marine algae.
- Ecosystem effects of harvesting seaweed for biofuel
- PhD student Kyla Orr is modelling ecosystem effects of seaweed harvesting
- Using microbes to generate methane
- Our postdoc Arlene Rowan is using microbes to generate methane
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