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The algae world lost one of its great champions earlier this month. Milt Sommerfeld will be sorely missed by all in the algae space and beyond. Milt is a household name in the algae industry: he started the Laboratory of Algae Research and Biotechnology (LARB) in Arizona, which later became the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI) and acts as one of the key research hubs for algae in the United States. He was also instrumental in developing the Algae Testbed Public Private Partnership (ATP3), which offers third-party technology verification for those researchers looking to test out their tech.

Yet Milt’s legacy goes far beyond the labs he helped establish and the impressive research that he conducted. He touched many lives throughout his career, inspiring the next generation of algae researchers and all of those who met him with his humor, knowledge and passion.

Read about Milt’s legacy and achievements in this wonderful write-up posted by Arizona State University.

ABO is a proud partner of the 6th Congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology taking place in Nantes from June 18th through June 23rd. 

Previous ISAP Congresses have seen the role of applied algal biotechnology and their potential developed in a commercial, remedial or regulatory context. In 2014, the theme of ISAP was chosen to reflect on the actual successes of algae applications as they already represent a sustainable and relevant field of biotechnology.

In 2017 the scope of the 6^th edition of ISAP congress is to appreciate the huge phycological biodiversity and the diversity of its biotechnological applications through the prism of a new and promising industrial sector in full development. The Congress will include speakers and posters presentations, exhibitors and for the first time a BtoB session to meet the right partners.

More details can be found on the ISAP website. 

ABO is a proud partner of the 2nd International Solar Fuels Conference, set to take place July 6-10, 2017.

Hosted at the University of California, San Diego, this conference will bring together scientists working with biological and chemical approaches to utilize solar energy for direct fuel production.

Topics to be addressed as part of the conference include…

• Artificial Photosynthesis and Photoelectrochemistry
• Artificial and photo biological approaches
• Materials and Molecular Science for Solar Fuels
• Photobioreactors
• Light Harvesting and Photochemical Charge Separation
• Catalysis and Mechanisms
• Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology
• Economics and Public Policy
• Biofuels from photosynthesis
• Photoelectrochemistry and photobiology

More details can be found on the UCSD website. 

ABO is a proud partner of the BioMarine 2017 conference, which will be taking place in October in Quebec. 

BioMarine is a unique event dedicated to marine bioresources. It is organized around a platform of meetings and discussions for industrials, scientists, investors, economic development agencies, allowing them to boost their acquisitions, investments, trade agreements, technologies transfers, and development partnerships at an international level. Its goal is to develop small, medium and national companies on the international stage.

The conference will take place in Rimouski, Quebec from October 1st-3rd. More details can be found on the conference website.