We will be at @ccapoban.bsky.social in stunning Oban for the next two weeks fixing samples from their remarkable collection for #ExAME - thank you Ceci Mikey Jo Naomi and everyone at SAMS for the warm Scottish welcome ❤️ #ProtistsonSky #ExpandThemAll @fmikus.bsky.social

#Expansion #Microscopy #Atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes is getting up to speed. We will be at full speed soon, but we are lucky to have a welcoming #protistology #community. Thx 🙏 to @Marine @fmikus.bsky.social @Julius & @Galina ⏭️Stop: @ccapoban.bsky.social #ExpandThemAll #ExAME #ProtistsOnSky

Drones and Droids: a strategy game with robots! The crowdfunder has just 7 days left - support marine science, STEM and fun! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/drones-and... #stem #robotics #boardgame #hab #harmfulalgalbloom #marinescience

CCAP Algaculture training course - in person at SAMS, Oban 28 - 29 Oct 2025 This 2 day course is a mix of theoretical lectures and hands-on lab practical components. Email us: [email protected]

New culture shipping vessels: after the screw-capped tubes we use for shipping were discontinued we opted for glass vials instead - which will reduce our single-use plastic usage. The photo is of some happy Chlamydomonas cultures currently heading to Poland 🧪

New paper: "Exploring a bicarbonate-based carbon capture approach applicability to industrially relevant marine microalgae", citing five CCAP strains. www.cetjournal.it/index.php/ce...

Introducing CCAP 88/8 Volvox aureus Collected from a pond at Glasgow Botanic Gardens, this lovely green algae forms spherical colonies. We lost our last strain of Volvox several years ago so it is lovely to have it back in the Collection!

New paper from a study using CCAP 276/1A Tetradesmus obliquus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper featuring CCAP 66/21B Tetraselmis chui: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Tetraselmischui #Mixotrophy #Antioxidants #Solubleprotein #A549cells

CCAP and @samsocean.bsky.social are attending the Preserving What Matters: Scotland's National Collections exhibition on Tuesday 27th May - at the RSE, George Street in Edinburgh. If you're in the area come along to see our stand 🧪 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving...

New paper co-authored by CCAP Curator Ceci Rad Menéndez: "Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Algae in space! algaeplanet.com/space-algae-...

New paper co-authored by CCAP staff: A European biobanking strategy for safeguarding macroalgal genetic material to ensure food security, biosecurity and conservation of biodiversity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Final programme now available for our upcoming Algaculture online course: www.ccap.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

New paper citing CCAP 1446/10 Lyngbya sp. 👇 Acute Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Nanodots, and Cell-Penetrating Peptides to Freshwater Cyanobacteria www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/17...

Still places available on our online Algaculture for Biotechnology course on 23rd and 24th April - see link below for further details 👇 www.ccap.ac.uk/index.php/al... #algaculture #biotechnology #training #trainingcourse #cpdcourse #phycology #microalgae #pondlife #marinescience #onlineeducation

CCAP Algaculture online CPD course - 23rd & 24th April 2025 For more information visit our course webpage and complete the online application form: www.ccap.ac.uk/index.php/al...

Paper characterising CCAP 202/25: The first phylogenetic and ecophysiological characterisation of Ankistrodesmus antarcticus CCAP 202/25, an Antarctic green alga isolated from freshwater ice journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/...

👫 Exciting News! Registrations are now open for the MOOC “Biobanking” ! 👉 Enroll Now : bit.ly/4jaIoOH 📚 Biobanks are a fundamental tool for advancing research and disseminating knowledge worldwide! Organizational, technical, scientific, legal, ethical aspects of biobanks are reviewed in the MOOC.

"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We need to talk about #plankton🌊 To really understand the health of the ocean, we need to know more about these microscopic and mighty organisms. SAMS' Dr Callum Whyte is an author on a new study calling for change in how we monitor plankton. 📖 www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...

New paper citing CCAP strains: "Mixotrophic cultivation of microalgae in whey medium for poultry diet supplementation with microalgal biomass" www.apgads.lu.lv/fileadmin/us...

The fight is not over. Every degree matters. Every tenth of a degree matters. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

CCAP is marking 20 years of being hosted by the Scottish Association for Marine Science near Oban. The Collection moved fully to Oban in 2004, and has previously been located in Windermere and Cambridge. Here's to another 20+ years! CCAP is funded by NERC @ukri.org www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...

Biomusic from algae 🧪🎵 "Photosynthetic organisms transduce light energy into electrical energy which can be harnessed using bioelectrochemical devices known as biophotovoltaics (BPVs)...these devices can provide an electrical interface for biomusic generation." Original post has a video/sound clip 👇

New paper citing strains CCAP 258/71 Desmodesmus hystrix and CCAP 276/18 Desmodesmus perforatus: "Comparative chloroplast genome analysis of two #Desmodesmus species reveals genome diversity within Scenedesmaceae (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae)" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #phylogeny

New paper citing strain CCAP 946/6 Prymnesium parvum: "Prymnesium parvum: Correlation between lytic activity and prymnesin content, both increasing with phosphorus-depletion and lower cell density" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From Algae Planet: algaeplanet.com/grazing-catt...

Climate data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows, it is virtual certainty that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year above 1.5°C. This does not mean the Paris Agreement has been breached, it means ambitious #climateaction is more urgent than ever 🧪⚒️🌏🌡️📈

A great day at Glasgow Botanical Gardens last Friday for our first pop-up Museum of Microalgae - MoMa www.microalgaemuseum.com #museumofmicroalgae #plankton #STEM #microalgae #pondlife #phycology #scienceisfun #snowalgae #chlorella #plantbasedproteins

CCAP was visited today by Thibaut Pollina, the inventor of the #PlanktoScope, a modular, open-source platform for #plankton imaging. It allows high-throughput quantitative #imaging of samples in the lab or in the field. Fascinating to have a look at it and see what it can do! www.planktoscope.org

New genus and species Katarium polorum described in the paper below by Marcel Solbach, Michael Bonkowski and @dumack.bsky.social, the two strains are held in CCAP: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Diatoms - the masters of capturing carbon, and beautiful! www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no... #climatecrisis #diatoms #algae #CCS

The secret sex life of algae! Video with Dr Susana Coelho from the Max Planck Institute 👇 algaeplanet.com/the-secret-s...

CCAP is looking forward to celebrate microalgae at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens this Friday!

New paper, featuring CCAP 1085/12 Thalassiosira pseudonana "Diatom pyrenoids fix approximately one-fifth of global CO2" A protein blueprint of the diatom CO2-fixing organelle - research at Universities of York and Basel 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What if we rapidly cut methane and other high-GWP gases to curb short-term warming while we phase out carbon? This is what we proposed in 1999; and our findings were even presented to Congress. We’d have a very different world if we’d done it then—but even if we start now, it’s better than not!

New paper co-authored by our Curator, Ceci Rad Menéndez 👇 Assessment of nine markers for phylogeny, species and haplotype identification of Kappaphycus species and Eucheuma denticulatum (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta): European Journal of Phycology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday was International Microorganism Day! A day late, but we've picked a lovely microalga: Spirogyra, a filamentous green microalga, forms beautiful patterns when grown on agar. Left is CCAP 678/9 S. mirabilis, and right is CCAP 678/3 S. varians. Fascinating to see the difference in structure.

New paper assigning CCAP 312/1 to new genus/species Caulinema droopii, by Tatyana Darienko, CCAP curator Ceci Rad Menéndez and Thomas Pröschold www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/12... 🧪

New paper citing CCAP 66/4 Tetraselmis suecica: doi.org/10.1128/msys...

Pleased to see a new paper researching the antioxidant potential and bioactivities of CCAP algae. Tetraselmis chui CCAP 66/21B, Phaeodactylum tricornutum CCAP 1052/1 and Amphidinium carterae CCAP1102/8. Congratulations on another successful publication from your PhD, Helen. 👉 lnkd.in/eF2vwgdZ

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