Auch diese Jahr findet wieder der Bundesalgenstammtisch statt, mittlerweile zum sechsten mal. Veranstaltungsort am 13. und 14. Mai ist diesmal wieder Hamburg, die Perle des Nordens. Ich möchte nur nochmal kurz an die Fristen zur Einreichung der Posterbeiträge erinnern: Deadline ist Freitag, der 12. April 2013. Einreichungen, die nach diesem Termin eingehen, können leider nicht mehr berücksichtigt werden.

Hier gibt es weitere Infos zum Einreichungs-Verfahren für den diesjährigen Bundesalgenstammtisch.

In the movie Alien, the title character is an extraterrestrial creature that can survive brutal heat and resist the effects of toxins. In real life, organisms with similar traits exist, such as the “extremophile” red alga Galdieria sulphuraria.

In hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, Galdieria uses energy from the sun to produce sugars through photosynthesis. In the darkness of old mineshafts in drainage as caustic as battery acid, it feeds on bacteria and survives high concentrations of arsenic and heavy metals. How has a one-celled alga acquired such flexibility and resilience? Continue Reading →

Tuscaloosa, Ala. — They arrive here by the hundreds. From across Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, they arrive. Sometimes they show up large, dried and mounted on display paper. Other times they are microscopic. Still other times, it’s only a liquid drop – containing a speck of their DNA – at the bottom of a culture tube. Continue Reading →

What can green algae do for science if they weren’t, well, green? That’s the question biologists at UC San Diego sought to answer when they engineered a green alga used commonly in laboratories, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, into a rainbow of different colors by producing six different colored fluorescent proteins in the algae cells. Continue Reading →

Researchers from japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed microalgae-based bioplastics mainly from constituents extracted from Euglena. Continue Reading →