Current Members
Microalgal Recombinants is a network, currently based within the United Kingdom. As a platform designed for scientists, both early research career and established laboratories to share and collaborate research interests.
Imperial College London
Interested in various aspects of solar energy conversion by chloroplasts and cyanobacteria such as, enhancing the light reactions of photosynthesis and chloroplast synthetic biology.
Parker Lab
Interested in the use of photosynthetic organisms as an industrial biotechnology platform and water bioremediation. Research at the Parker Lab is highly interdisciplinary, with regular collaboration with architects and designers to realise projects such as the Algaegarden.
Purton Lab
Interested in genetic engineering of algae and the development of advanced synthetic biology tools for creating 'designer algae'. The Purton Lab uses the algal chloroplast, as a platform to produce high-value proteins.
Scottish Association for Marine Science
Interested in algae for biomass applied to the production of added value compounds.
University of East Anglia
Interested in understanding the evolution, gene composition and expression of marine microalgae.
University of Manchester
Interested in chloroplasts as a platform to manufacture high-value industrial and therapeutic proteins.
Molnar Lab
The Molnar Lab develops in vivo gene tagging systems and recombinant gene/protein expression platforms for the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Working with both microalgae (eukaryotic and prokaryotic) and macroalgae, and their viruses; Mike’s group seek to develop novel solutions to the problems of the 21st century.
Rothamsted Research
Interested in synthetic biology approaches to engineer oil seed crops and marine microorganisms for the sustainable production of high value molecules.
University of Cambridge
The Plant Sciences department is interested in several aspects of the metabolism of plants, algae and bacteria; in particular vitamin and cofactor biosynthesis, metabolic engineering of high value products and symbiotic interactions between algae and bacteria.
University of Kent
Interested in understanding and exploiting protein transport systems in bacteria and chloroplasts, and pathways for high-value products in microalgae.
University of York
Interested in understanding the molecular basis of carbon fixation in algae and cyanobacteria and using synthetic biology experiments to reconstruct carbon concentrating mechanisms in heterologous systems to improve photosynthetic performance.
