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| Title | Getting attached to seaweeds |
| Group | Cell Biology |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 12 or more |
| Supervisor(s) | Otto van der Linden, Tijs Ketelaar |
| Examiner(s) | Tijs Ketelaar |
| Contact info | tijs.ketelaar@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2024/02/01 |
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| Description | One of the major problems in upscaling commercial seaweed culture is the detachment of young plants from the cultivation lines. The cellular, molecular and environmental factors that determine substrate attachment success for seaweeds are still obscure. Recently, we have introduced the alga Ulva mutabilis into the lab as a seaweed model system to study how attachment is facilitated and how it can be improved. For this purpose, we are developing flow cells that we use to test different Ulva mutabilis lines and mutants. In parallel, we investigate how different culture conditions affect attachment. In this project, you will work with seaweed culturing, time-lapse microscopy, microfluidics and imaging data analysis. Is this your first step into the blue economy? |
| Used skills | Advanced light microscopy, molecular cloning, working with mutant lines, cell culturing, PCR and DNA cloning |
| Requirements | recommended; CLB-30306 |