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Program of the 9th European Workshop Biotechnology of Microalgae

"Where we are and will go in microalgal biotechnology"

Program June 4, day 1

1. Photosynthetic efficiency (PE)

  • Managament of photon flux
  • Theoretical and practical maxima of PE
  • Photosynthesis - physiological aspects of algal mass productio
  • Antenna size vs. light dilution

 2. Biodiversity phototrophic organisms

  • strains and sreening
  • GMO vs. metabolic selection

3. Molecular biological approaches

 4. PBR designs

  • New concepts in PBR
  • Results in preliminary traisl
  • Concepts for large scale
  • Economics

Evening program: Gala dinner

 
 

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Program June 5, 2012

5. High value products- backbone of traditional microalgae biotechnology

  • New developments and markets
  • New challenges(food, feed, pharma, aquaculture, fine chemicals, etc. )

6. Biofuels:potentials vs. limitations

  • Solutions for large scale production (isolated algae farm vs. integrated concepts  - biorefinery)
  • Environmental impacts (eco-, energy-, CO2- ...balances)
  • Economics of large scale
  • "By-products"