The Mary Rosenthal Memorial Student Travel Grant from the Algae Foundation was initiated to provide support for students presenting a poster or oral presentation at the Algae Biomass Summit. The Algae Biomass Summit 2020 took place in San Diego September 8th-11th. See past year’s recipients below. 

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  Neha Arora

  Mixotrophic cultivation of C. vulgaris using sweet sorghum bagasseto reduce cost and enhance sustainability

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  Priscila Paola Dario

  Biochemical composition and conversion of methil esters via direct microalgae biomass transesterification

  
  
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  Fengzheng Gao

  Maximum fucoxanthin and lipid production by Tisochrysis lutea at lab and pilot scale
  
  

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  Yaoguang Li

  Development of genomic tools for breeding superior sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) cultivars for food and fuel

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  Magdalini Tsarpali

  Lipid extraction of microalgae & hydrothermal carbonization of the residual algal biomass for sustainable hydrochar production

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  Dágon Manoel Ribeiro

  Culture media for the production of biomass of green microalgae (Chlorophyta) at low cost
  
  

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  Anita Ljubic

  Nannochloropsis oceanica as a new natural source of vitamin D3
  
  

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  Chelsea Tyus

  Characterizing Monosaccharides and Starches in a Co-Culture of Microalgae

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  Dylan Franks

  Using Algae in Undergraduate STEM Education...
  
  

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  Fabian Abiusi

  Oxygen balanced mixotrophic cultivation: how to double microalgae productivity...

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  Gisell Pazmino

  Potential microalgae acclimation to centrate wastewater...
  
  

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  Lizzette Garcia

  Effect of environmental factors on the biomass and lipid production of microalgae...

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  Madelyn Wilson

  A Look at Post-combustion Flue Gas CO2 Capture for Sustainable Algae Production
  
  

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  Pedro Chacon

  Energy harvesting system for turbulent flow: Application to microalgal cultures

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  Alvin Cheng

  A microfluidic approach for high-throughput screening of microalgae-to-bioproducts conversions

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  Derek Hess

  Impact of Heavy Metals on Microalgae Growth and Conversion into Biofuel and Biogas Production...

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  Eric Monroe

  Production, upgrading, and testing of fusel alcohols as high performance fuels from whole algae bioconversion

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  William Stanley

  Marine Algae Cultured in Enriched Medium Demonstrate Increased Uptake...

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  Ali Teymouri

  Evaluation of Lipid Extractability After Flash Hydrolysis of Algae
  
  

  
  
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  Lei Wang

  A Low- Cost Microfluidic Concentrator for Cyanobacteria Harvesting
  
  

  
  
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  Rey Allen

  Synthetic ecology for quantitative prediction of anti-comtamination strategies..

  
  
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  Andrew Burch

  Combined nitrogen limitation and peroxide treatment enhances neutral lipid accumulation the marine diatom...

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  Dylan Franks

  Physiological Optimization of Lipid Accumulationin Microalgaeduring Continuous Culture
  

  
  
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  Hasti Hosseinizand

  Economics of drying microalgae Chlorella in a conveyor belt dryer with recycled heat
  

  
  
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  Jiang Bowen

  The Algae Foundation’s Algae Academy
                                                            
  

  
  
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  Kishi Masatoshi

  
                                                            
  
  

  
  
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  Li Yalin

  Quantitative Multiphase Model for Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL) of Algal Biomass
  

  
  
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  McKenna Loop

  The Effect of the Type of Extraction Method on the Amount of Crude Algal Lipids Recovered for Economically Feasible Biofuel Production
  

  
  
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  Stan Pankratz

  Modeling Algae Pond Cultivation –Canada (and global)
  
  
  

  
  
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  Umme Aiman

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  Andrew Bessette

  LCA of Algae Based Biofuels Produced Utilizing Flash Hydrolysis ProcessUsing and Argonne GREET Model 
  

  
  
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  Raul Gonzalez

  Steamlined Contruction of the Carboxysome for the Develpment of Modular Protein-Based Nanoreactor 
  

  
  
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  Huiya Gu

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  Matthew Jackson

  Promotng Lipid Accumulation in Chlorella vulgaris UTEX395 Using Nitrogen...
  

  
  
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  Jakob Nalley

  Well‐Oiled Green Cleaning Machines: Harnessing the Synergy of Algal Biofuel Production...

  
  
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  Garima Saxena

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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   Prachi Varshney

  Effect of high CO2concentrations on the growth and macromolecular composition...

  
  
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  Elena Barbera

  Improving light absorption and energy conversion in Photobioreactorsfor microalgae production
  

  
  
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  Javier Gimpel

  Production of recombinant proteins in microalgae at pilot greenhouse scale 
  
  

  
  
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  Lisa A. Anderson

  Small Molecule Modulators of Lipid Production in Microalgae and NMR Spectroscopy of Lipids
  

  
  
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  Mona Mirsiaghi

  Biocon version of Lipid-Extracted Algal Biomass into Ethanol
   
  

  
  
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  Lenny de Jaeger

  Superior TAG accumulation in starchless mutants of Scenedesmus obliquus
  
  

  
  
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  Alexander S. Zevin

  Characteriza*on of microbial community structure and func*on in Synechocys)s sp.PCC 6803 photobioreactors
  

  
  
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  Julian Rosenberg

            
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  Trina Halfhide

            
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  Rebecca Knight

            
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  Jeffery Moody

            
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  Lillie Cavonius

            
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  Pavlo Bohutskyi

            
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  Stephanie Brunelle