Advances in industrial harvesting techniques for edible microalgae: Recent insights into sustainable, efficient methods and future directions

J Zhu, M Wakisaka, T Omura, Z Yang, Y Yin… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Developing efficient, sustainable microalgae harvesting methods is vital to enable
microalgae as renewable feedstock for food and functional nutrients. Conventional …

Environmental transport of gyrotactic microorganisms in an open‐channel flow

G Li, Z Gong, W Jiang, J Zhan, B Wang… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rich and complex phenomena of the transport of active particles like microorganisms in
shear flows are of great significance to various biological and environmental applications …

Sharp turns and gyrotaxis modulate surface accumulation of microorganisms

L Zeng, W Jiang, TJ Pedley - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The accumulation of swimming microorganisms at surfaces is an essential feature of various
physical, chemical, and biological processes in confined spaces. To date, this accumulation …

Microalgae and macroalgae for third-generation bioethanol production

I Veza, AT Hoang, MM Abbas, N Tamaldin… - Liquid biofuels …, 2022 - Springer
First-generation bioethanol, made from edible feedstocks, are currently not regarded as a
sustainable source due to the food versus fuel dilemma. Second-generation bioethanol …

Light-regulated chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate

N Schramma, GC Canales, M Jalaal - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
Photosynthetic algae play a significant role in oceanic carbon capture. However, their
performance is constantly challenged by fluctuations in environmental light conditions. While …

Motile bacteria leverage bioconvection for eco-physiological benefits in a natural aquatic environment

F Di Nezio, S Roman, A Buetti-Dinh… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Bioconvection, a phenomenon characterized by the collective upward
swimming of motile microorganisms, has mainly been investigated within controlled …

Synergistic phenotypic adaptations of motile purple sulphur bacteria Chromatium okenii during lake-to-laboratory domestication

F Di Nezio, ILH Ong, R Riedel, A Goshal, J Dhar… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Isolating microorganisms from natural environments for cultivation under optimized
laboratory settings has markedly improved our understanding of microbial ecology. Artificial …

Planktonic Active Matter

A Sengupta - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09550, 2023 - arxiv.org
Planktonic active matter represents an emergent system spanning different scales:
individual, population and community; and complexity arising from sub-cellular and cellular …

Photogyrotactic concentration of a population of swimming microalgae across a porous layer

P Prakash, OA Croze - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The light environment controls the swimming of microalgae through a light-seeking and
avoiding behaviour, which is known as phototaxis. In this work, we exploit phototaxis to …

Synergistic phenotypic shifts during domestication promote plankton-to-biofilm transition in purple sulfur bacterium Chromatium okenii

F Di Nezio, ILH Ong, R Riedel, A Goshal, J Dhar… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The ability to isolate microorganisms from natural environments to pure cultures under
optimized laboratory settings has markedly improved our understanding of microbial …