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Next on the tour of Europe is the #ISAP2024 conference in Porto - looking forward to catching up with colleagues and learning all about the exciting algal updates🦠 ISAP Phycology

#ISAP2024 yesterday included a visit to Allmicroalgae's cultivation facility, today at the conference CCAP has a poster at the 17:30 poster session - stand 4,25 - come and say hi. ISAP Phycology

Interesting article/paper on the role algae play in cooling the planet - featuring the wonderfully named rhizobacterium Gynuella sunshinyii algaeplanet.com/pelagophyceae-…

What an incredible atmosphere at #RestoreNatureNow today. It's an honour to be standing together with all the other conservation charities and groups calling for urgent action on the nature and climate emergencies.  #RestoreOurSeas

The The British Phycological Society Hilda Canter-Lund photography competition shortlist is open for voting until 5th July: #HCLcompetition2024 #algaephotography Canter-Lund 2024 - Gallery Shortlist - The British Phycological Society (brphycsoc.org)

The first of two new #protist genomes published as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project: Pseudopediastrum boryanum CCAP 291/2 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-338

And the second new #protist #genome just published as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project: Marvania coccoides CCAP 251/1B wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-334

WATCH: In a new Nature Geoscience paper published today, deep-sea scientists led by Prof Andrew Sweetman of SAMS have found a new mechanism for oxygen production. 'Dark oxygen' occurs at thousands of metres below the sea surface! Read the paper: nature.com/articles/s4156… #DarkOxygen

Potato-sized lumps of metal make oxygen in the dark on the seabed. Fascinating marine strangeness from ⁦Scottish Association for Marine Science⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

New paper, citing CCAP 66/4 Tetraselmis suecica: Impact of host species on assembly, composition, and functional profiles of phycosphere microbiomes | mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

CCAP is also on Instagram and Threads as @ccapoban, LinkedIn, Mastadon (@[email protected]) and, testing the water, on BlueSky (ccapoban.bsky.social) 👍

Yesterday was International Microorganism Day! Here's a lovely microalga: Spirogyra, a filamentous green microalga, forms beautiful patterns on agar. Left CCAP 678/9 S. mirabilis, right CCAP 678/3 S. varians. Seen side by side it's fascinating to see the difference in structure.

New paper co-authored by our Curator, Ceci Rad Menéndez 👇 Assessment of nine markers for phylogeny, species and haplotype identification of Kappaphycus species and Eucheuma denticulatum (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta): European Journal of Phycology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚀 #YAS25 is back with a new team! 🚀 🌱Welcome back, Daniel Figueiredo, Rafael Vitorino & Elisa Werner! 👏 A warm welcome to our new team members: ✨ Sheyma Khemiri ✨ Anna Deniel Luque ✨ Serena Fasiello Let’s shape the future of #AlgaeBiotech together! 🌿💡 #YAS2025 #EABA

CCAP are looking to buy a new Liquid Nitrogen Generator to assist with our cryopreservation activities. We have an open invitation to tender for this which closes on 25th October. If you are interested & able to supply, please check out the link below 👇 publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/se…

"Microalgae such as the diatom Odontella aurita & the green alga Tetraselmis striata are especially suitable as “biofactories” for the production of sustainable materials for 3D laser printing due to their high content in lipids and photoactive pigments." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

SAMS and CCAPOban will be part of a new £4.5m research project to develop the use of natural products in the agriculture, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries. The new project, led by the Natural Products BioHUB - Swansea University has secured funding from UK Research and Innovation. lnkd.in/eumyVeSr

New paper, featuring CCAP 1085/12 Thalassiosira pseudonana "Diatom pyrenoids fix approximately one-fifth of global CO2" A protein blueprint of the diatom CO2-fixing organelle - research at Universities of York and Basel 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…