Hello all, just wanted to hi

[Adam Freeman]

Hey everyone,

I a fairly new to the DIY bio scene and wanted to say hello. I live near Berkeley and am working on algae based research. I'm am investigating the feasibility of producing fuel from algae. I'm also interested in making batteries and some other petroleum feedstock goods from algae. I am developing protocols to grow algae using recyclable materials to eliminate the need for a lab and to enable third world countries to make fuel in an open source manner.

Right now I'm growing Spirulina platenisis if anyone wants some. Soon I'll be receiving heameotococcus pluvalis, and will be working on that. I also plan to start some botryococcus braunii soon too. If anyone has other strains or BB to donate I would be very grateful. If your interested in my project, I have a mediocre website. Www.algasinc.com

I love the community and want to say I'm inspired by this group! MucH love

Adam



Adam Freeman
Bioengineer
Afreem...@gmail.com
(404) 932-6781

[Nathan McCorkle]

Cool, glad to *meet* you... do you have more notes online, I'd like to
read more on your protoplast fusion experiments with the different
alga, I've only fused mammalian cells :/

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Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
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[Ravasz]

Hi there,

I'm Matt, and I'm just building my first photobioreactor at home. I'm glad to see that many people have similar interests, and want to engineer algae to produce various cool things with it. I am currently studying how to effectively transform algae with plasmids to introduce new genes into them. Any tips on that would be welcome.

Best,
Matt

[Mega]

Hi, Algae will be much more difficult to transform than cyanobacteria would be. because they are eukaroyotes.