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Documenting the history of algae research and the algae industry

7/14/2010

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In the latest issue of Fast Company, they covered leading algae company Sapphire Energy and former BP refining chief Cynthia Warner (Currently President at Sapphire Energy). While it may not be a journal there are some important comments that were made.

On the topic of commercialization time line the following comment was made.

"We're trying to do in 10 years what agriculture has accomplished in 100 years, but we have two enormous advantages. One is that we're in the molecular era, so we can take things down to a single gene. Two is that we're dealing with single cells so we can grow 25 generations of crops in a year."
Dr. Stephen Mayfield a founder of Sapphire Energy and director of San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology

Since microalgae is in the unique position of having received more attention and funding than it ever has, there is no question that we are in store for a number of potential breakthroughs in research.

What we have done
To document these breakthroughs, we have added a new and easy collaborative approach that will display a time line of events that have occurred in both algae research and the algae industry. The best part: you can contribute to it too using the form below the graph! The goal of this graph is to become the most comprehensive source for algae progress by tapping the community of experts (YOU!).

Click on either time line to see or add to it.

Time line of algae research
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Time line of the algae industry

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7/19/2018 05:37:37 am

delighted to hear about algae university

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