CCAP Research:

CCAP continues to actively engage with flagship genome related research projects. We continue to supply algal genomic material for the Darwin Tree of Life (https://www.darwintreeoflife.org/) and macroalga-All-Code project, in collaboration with University of New York, Abu Dhabi.

 

CCAP Education:

EIT – Sustainable Aquaculture:

Various CCAP Team members are involved with the co-ordination, management, and delivery of the EIT Food – Sustainable Aquaculture Autumn School, funded by the EU.

This course had its first live session on the 5^th of November, and will run until the 26^th of November as a blended mix of online learning materials, guest speakers and team activities relating to food security and sustainable aquaculture production, with an entrepreneurial vision.

A CCAP overview, as well as algal research activities that CCAP/SAMS undertakes will be presented live on the 12^th of November.

 

Annual CCAP CPD course:

We are beginning preparations for the next CCAP CPD training course. We have a “Save the date” for the 9^th and 10^th of February 2022. This event, as last year, will be held online.

It will be a mix of online demonstrations, lecture material, Q&A panel sessions with CCAP and SAMS staff and experts from industry/academia.

Below are a few post-course quotes from participants that undertook the course earlier this year.

“I particularly enjoyed the break-out sessions. I love the ease with which the speakers delivered the lectures.”

“I personally mostly enjoyed the mixture of talks from the field of research and the hands-on videos. It was a really good mixture. I could not decide which lecture was the most interesting, the mixture was just really good!”

 

Conference Activity:

4-7^th October 2021 – Aquaculture Europe 21

SAMS-Enterprise had a stand at Aquaculture Europe, Madeira. A slide deck was prepared to promote CCAP core facilities and the CCAP-ARIES centre.

We have subsequently received enquiries from various researchers that were present at this event.

19^th October 2021 – 1^st International Symposium of applied phycology: International and Colombian experiences

Ceci Rad-Menéndez has been part of the GCRF Global Seaweed Star programme: Building scientific and technical capacities on phycology in Colombia by providing training on algae cultivation and diseases to professors in the Colombian University Libre. As part of the project, the University has organized the 1st International Symposium of applied phycology: International and Colombian experiences and Ceci Rad-Menéndez is giving an oral presentation about CCAP.

8^th-11^th November 2021 - 1st Annual International Congress on Euglenoids 2021

CCAP is part of the Euglena International Network (https://euglenanetwork.org/) and Ceci Rad-Menéndez will attend their first virtual International Congress in November

7-10^th December – AlgaEurope 2021

CCAP have been accepted to present an e-Poster at this forthcoming online conference. The e-Poster entails a 2-minute presentation, with a maximum of 6 slides.

4-7^th January 2022 – 70^th British Phycological Society

CCAP will submit abstracts for a range of oral and poster presentations, in person, at the forthcoming BPS conference in Swansea.

 

CCAP Staff updates:

Ryan Marchington joined the CCAP as a support scientist on the 25^th of October.

“I am excited to join SAMS and begin my new role as a CCAP Support Scientist. I have previously worked with cyanobacteria, designing a protocol to optimise phycocyanin production in a low-water consumption system, as part of my BSc Marine Biology at Newcastle University. Additionally, I have recently investigated microbial interactions on the surface of macroalgae at the Spanish Institute of Marine Science as part of my MSc Sustainable Aquaculture research project from the University of Plymouth. I have also been participated in volunteering schemes, such as an assistant technician on a Spirulina farm in the Azores, Portugal and at the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, Cornwall.”

 

Publications from CCAP staff and science leads (Oct – Nov 2021):

A.R. McLeod, T. Brand, C.N. Campbell, K. Davidson, A.D. Hatton, Ultraviolet Radiation Drives Emission of Climate-Relevant Gases From Marine Phytoplankton, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 126 (2021) e2021JG006345.