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Marine Biotechnology
Title Cullen Fellowship: Culture optimisation, and bioactivity of selected toxic Irish microalgae Programme National Programme
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Contact Type (FP7)
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Coordinator institution
NUI - National University of Ireland (Ireland)
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Start year 2018 End year 2021 Funding (€) € 69,000 Website NA Summary Harmful Algal Blooms are representing today the main threat for several Irish marine industries especially the shellfish industry which is renowned internationally for the quality of the products provided. Closures of farms are recommended by the marine institute very frequently in Ireland during the last decades due to food safety issues. The recipient of the PhD Cullen fellowship proposed herein will work in the field of HABs affecting Irish waters but also will participate in the development of a National Marine Biodiscovery Repository at the Marine Institute through the bioassays part of the project. The main supervisor of the PhD is leading the NMBLI established at the MI with Jeffrey Fisher also involved in this PhD. The main objectives of the PhD will be: i) to work in close collaboration with the cosupervisors and other staff of the biotoxin groups at the MI to optimize culture of the three main toxic microalgal species affecting Irish waters at a small scale in a first instance and then at a medium scale for metaboolite production; ii) to isolate and elucidate the structure first of the known toxins and then other metabolites present in the three species; iii) to develop some antimicrobial bioassays at the MI also through the establishment of the NMBLI to screen the different metabolites; iv) finally to start addressing the question of the effect of these toxins on local marine species like macroalgae under the cosupervision of Dagmar Stengel from NUIG
Keywords
Algal toxins;
Algae;
Impacts;
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