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Functional Food and Pharmaceuticals – Marine Micro-Algae

• Theme:

  • Algae

• Description:

  • This Marie Curie Career-Fit PLUS project, under H2020 and EI, aims to directly characterise algal key regulatory genes, for example to stop and start lipid biosynthesis. This is an emerging field with great potential for micro-algal cultivation for pharmaceuticals and human nutraceuticals. This research takes advantage of an unprecedented visualisation of lipid droplet change and current state of the art of proteomics and metabolomics to answer questions at the leading edge of algal biology.