PhD Projects
Xanthella provides the industrial placement component of PhD projects in partnership with several Scottish universities. Given our on-site labs, professional environment and scenic location it is an attractive place to live and work during your thesis.
If you are a student or supervisor interested in partnering with us for such a project, please do not hesitate to send us an email to discuss it. We can also consider Masters projects.
Ongoing Projects
Optimising strain selection and developing a biorefinery for industrially relevant microalgae
Eleanor Wood, SAMS
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Sustainable production of marine cyanobacterial products: discovery, scale up and maintenance
Scarlet Ferrinho, University of St Andrews / University of Glasgow
Optogenetics in green cell factories
Liam Forbes, University of Glasgow
Completed Projects
The use of narrow band LED light in photobioreactors and metabolomics to aid the development of microalgae for biotechnology
Alison Hughes, University of Strathclyde
Narrow band LED technology for high-value pigment production in photosynthetic cell-factories
Aleksandar Mihnev, University of Glasgow
Xanthella is one partner in the A Blue Biotechnology Master for a Blue Career, cofunded by the program “European Maritime and Fisheries Fund” (EMFF) of the European Union. This is a Masters program operating primarily in the University of La Rochelle in France. Please note that although the website states that the project only ran until 2018, it is still active today and more information can be seen here.