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The DEMA Consortium will develop, demonstrate and license a complete economically competitive technology for the direct production of bioethanol from microalgae with low-cost scalable photobioreactors by 2016. Initial proof-of-concept results show via life cycle assessment and economic balance that it is feasible to use microalgae to produce bioethanol. The catalytic conversion of solar energy, H2O and CO2 into ethanol will be carried out by a metabolically engineered strain of the cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.

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FP7 DEMA Project Public Dissemination, Information on producing Ethanol from MicroAlgae and other relevant news topics.

  • 2016-06-29
    Pervatech Presents Poster on Biofuel Extraction and Purification at Industrial Technologies 2016
  • 2016-06-29
    Turning tech breakthroughs into commercial opportunities - Irish Times Feature Article 15/6/2016
  • 2015-09-02
    DEMA work on ethanol screening of ethanol-producing cyanobacteria in microdroplets presented at Phyconet workshop, London
  • 2015-05-28
    DEMA partner University of Limerick publishes timely review on the state of the art of ethanol productivity in cyanobacteria
  • 2015-05-28
    DEMA Project presents at the 1st International Solar Fuels Conference (ISF-1)
  • 2014-08-18
    Is cyanobacteria ethanol leading the way towards engineered industrial aquatic photobiotechnology?

Label-Free Analysis and Sorting of Microalgae and Cyanobacteria in Microdroplets by Intrinsic Chlorophyll Fluorescence for (...)

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.6b02364

 

Roshni J. Best†‡, Jan J. Lyczakowski†, Sara Abalde-Cela†, Ziyi Yu†, Chris Abell*†, and Alison G. Smith*‡

† Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, U.K.

‡ Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, U.K.

 

Abstract

Microalgae and cyanobacteria are promising organisms for sustainable biofuel production, but several challenges remain to make this economically viable, including identification of optimized strains with high biomass productivity. Here we report on a novel methodology for the label-free screening and sorting of cyanobacteria and microalgae in a microdroplet platform. We show for the first time that chlorophyll fluorescence can be used to measure differences in biomass between populations of picoliter microdroplets containing different species of cyanobacteria, Synechocystis PCC 6803 and Synechococcus PCC 7002, which exhibit different growth dynamics in bulk culture. The potential and robustness of this label-free screening approach is further demonstrated by the screening and sorting of cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii encapsulated in droplets.



 

Acknowledgements

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement nº 309086.

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