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Food and Fuel for the Future

Event takes place on the ground floor, access is via steps. Over 18s only
Past event - 2022
11 May Doors 6.30pm
Event 7.30pm to 9.30pm
The Miners Arms, 22 London Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks,
Kent TN13 2UF
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Join us in a future feast of algal products. 

Kombu, Nori and Wakame seaweeds are becoming more acceptable in European diets, but there are also salt-loving, brightly coloured microalgae, found in salt lakes and coastal waters around the globe, which offer potential as a renewable and sustainable source of food and health products that could protect us against sun-damage and treat diseases. They may also serve as novel biofuel for the future, saving fresh water and cutting CO2 emissions. 

Food and Fuel for the Future

Professor Dennis Douroumis (Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology and Process Engineering)
Professor Pat Harvey (Professor of Biochemistry, Head of Aquatic Biotechnology and Biology)
We have worked out how to cultivate microalgae like Dunaliella to produce compounds of great interest in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, nutraceutical and other applications, with huge savings in fresh water as well as cutting CO2 emissions and freeing up arable land for other purposes. Delivering solutions for large-scale production of microalgae like Dunaliella and seaweeds and turning every part of these algae into something useful will enable us to valorise algal cell factories to deliver substantial societal and economic benefits, and savings of up to 90% greenhouse gas emissions.

Aquatic Biotechnology and Biology Group

Aquatic Biotechnology and Biology Group (Research Group weblink)
We study a wide range of topics concerned with the sustainable use of water resources under changing climatic conditions.
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