Microalgal Bioengineering

Jorge Alberto Vieira Costa, Full Professor of Biochemical and Food Engineering at Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil
Dr. B. Greg Mitchell is a Research Biologist and Senior Lecturer (Emeritus) at the University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Associate Director for the California Center for Algae Biotechnology (CalCAB). He was a founding member of the Board of the Algae Biomass Organization and the Algae Foundation. He currently serves as Vice Chairman for the Board of the Algae Foundation. Dr. Mitchell is an expert in ocean photosynthesis, satellite remote sensing, numerical modeling of algae growth in the co-limitation matrix of nutrients, temperature and light, and algal biotechnology. He is currently active in coordinating research and commercial demonstration of both microalgae and macroalgae mass culture for biofuel, animal feed and abatement of waste CO2 and nutrients including modeling of production yields and lifecycle analysis. Dr. Mitchell has published more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

John Benemann, Director at Algal Biomass Organization and Chief Executive Officer at Microbio Engineering, Inc (USA)

Microalgae as the central variable in imagining a systemic society with the purpose of abundance.- Considerations for cultivating and processing Botryococcus braunii.- Biofertilizers from microalgae.- HARVESTING MICROALGAE: OVERCOMING THE BOTTLENECKS IN MICROALGAE-BASED WASTEWATER TREATMENT THROUGH INDUSTRIAL-SCALE GRAVITY SEDIMENTATION AND THICKENING.- Mass balance of the major cellular carbon pools for the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana as regulated by irradiance, CO2, and growth phase.- Microalgal products from agro-industry wastes.- The neuroprotective and antioxidant activities of Spirulina.- Plastome engineering in microalgae - the future of the green biotechnology.- Microalgae and cyanobacteria EPS: producing strains, accumulation and extraction strategies, and valorizations.- Challenges and perspectives for alternative media in microalgae cultivation: Main substrates and approaches, and potential of alternative derived biomasses as source of bioactives.- Lipids and fatty acids from microalgae.- Microalgae superfoods.