The Department of Energy’s Office of Science recently published a Funding Opportunity Announcement. It seeks pre-applications from parties interested in microbial systems design for biofuels as well as plant systems design for bioenergy. The pre-application deadline is February 13, 2012. $20 million total will be available for multiple awards in 2012. DOE expects that the awardees …
From June 14 to 16, 2012, the first edition of the Young Algaeneers Symposium will be organised in Wageningen, the Netherlands, to gather young scientists (PhD students and postdocs in their first 4 years), working in the field of algae biotechnology. Participants of the symposium, who are all in the frontlines of algae biotechnology research, …
By Erin Voegele, Biorefining Magazine Calif.-based Sapphire Energy Inc. recently announced that its white paper has been published by Nucleic Acids Research Journal, a scientific publication. The white paper, titled, “An exogenous chloroplast genome for complex sequence manipulation in algae,” outlines the methodology for the design, construction, modification and cellular introduction of the chloroplast genome from the …
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By Clayton R. Norman, Inside Tucson Business In a laboratory in Gilbert they’re turning vats of green slime into jet fuel. And food additives and vitamins and animal feed. These acts of alchemy are happening at a place called Heliae Development. Company CEO Dan Simon thinks algae growing and processing could mean big bucks for …
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Would Make Renewable Fuels Standard More “Technology Neutral”. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and Mike Crapo (R-ID) today introduced bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate that would help level the playingfield for advanced biofuels like algae by reforming the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) to make it more “technology neutral.