Major publication from CCAP- published in Gene and available online, for details and abstract click here.

CCAP presented with self portrait by Dr. Michael Droop, the respected microbial ecologist:

Michael Droop was one of the originators of the cell quota model of algal growth, and spent his working life researching the growth and utilisation of nutrients by algal cells.  Michael's PhD supervisor at Cambridge University during the early 1950s was Professor Ernst Georg Prinsgheim, the founder of the CCAP, and the collection still holds many cultures isolated and deposited by Michael, including CCAP 807/1 Botryococcus braunii, a species of interest at the moment for researchers into biofuels.

Michael's interest in painting began during his schooldays, and he has exhibited locally and elsewhere.  He painted the self-portrait presented to CCAP in 1984.

The presentation on 14th November coincided with Michael's 90th birthday on 3rd November 2008, his portrait now hangs in the CCAP section of the European Centre for Marine Biotechnology (ECMB), next to a portrait of Professer Pringsheim.

Tribute to Michael Droop:

Leadbeater BSC (2006) The 'Droop Equation' - Michael Droop and the legacy of the 'Cell Quota Model' of phytoplankton Growth. Protist 157: 345-358

DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2006.05.009

Algae & Art: 

Emma Hambly, an undergraduate student at the Edinburgh College of Art, is currently exhibiting work containing living CCAP cultures.  Her glass ecosystems aim to question and illustrate processes of microbial and global change. The exhibition, hosted by the GeoSciences Art Collective at Edinburgh University, is open until the end of January 2009 at the Crew Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh.  Prior to studying art, Emma completed a PhD in marine microbiology, exploring the diversity amongst viruses that infect a globally abundant, photosynthetic, marine bacterium.  She went on to conduct post-doctoral research in this field.  Her exhibited works are concerned with biological evolution as well as personal and cultural perceptions of progress.

www.geos.ed.ac.uk/artcollective

www.emmahambly.net

"The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes"

CCAP holds the strain of Phaeodactylum tricornutum (CCAP 1055/1) used in the research behind 

a current Nature paper.  For further information see the article on the SAMS website, or click

here for the abstract on the Nature website.

CCAP hosted two conferences at the Scottish Association for Marine Science in June 2008.

Click the links to visit the conference web pages, the abstracts of the oral presentations are now  

available.

Ectocarpus 2008 - June 4-8

Algal Culture Collections 2008 - June 8-10

CCAP holds photosynthetic ancestor of malaria-causing parasite

See this article on the SAMS website, or the paper published in Nature on February 21st (doi:

10.1038/nature06635)

Alginet Database

AlgiNet Meeting January 2006