Research Overview

To mitigate many of the potentially deleterious environmental and agricultural consequences associated with current landbased-biofuel feedstocks, we advocate the use of biofuels derived from aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs (AMOPs), more commonly known as algae, cyanobacteria and diatoms. Our research on AMOPs addresses:

1. Demonstrated productivity in mass culturing and future potential as biomass energy crops
2. Use as cell factories for production of gaseous fuels (H₂, CH₄)
3. Fundamental photosynthetic physiology and mechanisms
4. Genetic transformants for understanding mechanisms and improving fuel production