Category: travels

• Sarah Loftus wins award at Algae Biomass Summit

  Sarah Loftus, PhD ecology student, wins second place in the Biology student poster competition at the Algae Biomass Summit in Washington DC. The Summit, organized by the Algae Biomass Organization, unites industry professionals from all sectors of the world’s algae utilization industries including those involved financing, algal ecology, genetic systems, carbon partitioning, engineering & analysis,…

  October 2, 2015

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• ZIJ presents at ISPP2015

  ZIJ co-chaired a session on Marine Photosynthetic Bacteria and presented a paper (abstract below) on the response of Prochlorococcus to temperature change at the International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes 2015 (ISPP2015) meeting in Tübingen, Germany.  The meeting highlighted the current knowledge and the most recent advances of research on phototrophic prokaryotes including the latest achievements…

  August 5, 2015

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• Sara Blinebry collaborates with UTK

  Although not quite the open ocean, Sara Blinebry worked with Marty Szul and colleagues near the mountains of Tennessee to study the effects of nutrient limitation on Prochlorococcus photosynthesis and metabolism. The work is part of an ongoing collaboration between UTK and Duke that focuses on the how the environment affects the physiology, ecology and…

  May 2, 2015

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