Since 2022, I hold an adjunct position at AzCATI (SSEBE@ASU). After a recent update I'm also on the website! azcati.asu.edu/people/. This is one of the most powerful algae testbeds in the world and a great partner for our work here KAUST Research KAUST BESE

New paper alert 🧬😎🔔🚨. We present a standardized protocol for Cyanidioschizon merolae 🦠 transformation! Together with AzCATI University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) partners! KAUST Research KAUST BESE Gordon Wellman Sebastian Overmans, PhD #openaccess #algae #Biotechnology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Elham Fini, Tony Lamanna and Peter Lammers explore non-fertilizer uses for treated sewage sludge like integrating it into asphalt pavements, geopolymer, cementitious composites and masonry blocks. ow.ly/3UGH50UnSOP View video: ow.ly/UZUR50UnSOJ 🚧🚰

So excited for this AzCATI SSEBE@ASU ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Arizona State University Research win! Proud to lead a great team of collaborators including Los Alamos National Laboratory NREL Dr. Lieve Laurens, Viridos, Greenstream/NBO3, Algae Foundation, Colorado State University, Valerie Harmon Dave Baker Assoc. and Burge Env.

Our annual AzCATI Holiday potluck. Always nice to come together with this great team and enjoy some good food and conversation! A little late this year so missing a few students and staff but fun for all! Looking forward to great 2025 for #algae SSEBE@ASU ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

We are hiring! Arizona State University (ASU) and the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI) is seeking applicants for a faculty position in Algae Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering within the Fulton Schools of Engineering! careers.asce.org/job/281655/pro…

AzCATI (AzCATI) is hiring an open rank faculty position! If you are a bioprocess specialist or into applied algal biotech, come strengthen an already amazing team! apply.interfolio.com/161592

I am recruiting for postdoctoral and technician positions at UCSD. If anyone with relevant skills/interests has lost funding due to the anti-DEI jihad or the NIH purge, I’m open to discussion of ways we can try to help out.

Thrilled to announce I have been promoted to Associate Professor commencing July 1st. The SSB Lab will continue to innovate in algal biotechnology KAUST KAUST BESE ssb.kaust.edu.sa

Today is the 3rd Engineering Biology Research Consortium Global Forum at the J. Craig Venter institute in La Jolla. Happy to represent development in biotechnology and synthetic biology for KAUST and The Kingdom.

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please RT 💚

The Algae Update: May 2025 - mailchi.mp/thealgaefounda…

We're thrilled to join the 2025 International Seaweed Symposium in Victoria, BC! Our CEO, Dr. Ira "Ike" Levine, shared our mission to empower future leaders with free STEM programs and promote algae's eco-benefits through workforce development. Big thanks to the Symposium!

Exciting news! We're sponsoring the 2025 International Seaweed Symposium Poster Session! With 207 posters and 62 student presenters from 25 countries, we're thrilled to support emerging scientists. Stay tuned for the winners on May 9, 2025!

New #preprint. CO2 stimulates Galdieria to eat organic carbon, even in the dark. Stable isotope applied to algal biotech & 🍫chocolate conversion to algal biomass 🦠 1st auth Mauricio LPM, Bárbara Freitas Mike Fox KAUST Core Labs KAUST BESE AzCATI biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🎉 Congratulations ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Prof. Paul Westerhoff for earning the Perry L. McCarty Founders' Award from AEESP! SSEBE@ASU's Westerhoff and team shared their work using UV light to control mold growth. ow.ly/KKaJ50W1WQT💧🚰 #AEESP2025 #EnvironmentalEngineering

In less than two weeks it will be time for #AlgalBBB in Phoenix! Looking forward to seeing all of you there and proud that AzCATI will have a tour of its facilities. Happy to represent KAUST BESE & the amazing work being done at Arizona State University. Chairs Olaf Kruse and Taraka Dale

BESE PhD student Melany Villegas-Valencia wins Algal BBB Top Poster Award at The International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts (AlgalBBB) in Phoenix Melany is on a quest to turn a lesser used alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D into a bioengineering

The 2025 Energy Execs program is back in swing for July! Today, they’re getting a first-hand look at: 🔬 Our Field Test Laboratory Building 🧪 Hydrogen fuel innovation 🌱 Algae research with BIG impact Stay tuned to see what these energy innovators get up to tomorrow.

Take a Spin through an Algae Harvest: Bigelow Laboratory’s NCMA is proud to collaborate with the Algae Foundation to bring the wonder of marine algae directly to classrooms nationwide! 🌊🧪📦