Dominik Refardt

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Why do our cyanobacterial cells "bleach" after inoculation in an open cultivation system?

We are attempting to cultivate unicellular cyanobacteria (Aphanothece, Synechococcus) in an open thin-layer cascade system (200 L, 18 m2). The system is in a greenhouse an we have years of...

07 June 2021 7,497 2 View

How to starve microalgae - Is there a standard for a nutrient-poor medium?

Funnily, this is a very prominent topic - yet I wasn't able to come up with a good answer. So here it is: Is there a recipe for a standard nutrient-depleted medium? In many applications,...

24 March 2021 9,675 4 View

Cyanobacteria don't grow in BG-11, what could have gone wrong?

We recently obtained several cyanobacterial strains (Synechocystis, Chroococcus, Synechococcus, etc.) from the culture collection in Göttingen. Upon first inoculation in BG-11 (UTEX recipe),...

30 October 2019 6,044 5 View

Does anyone know about conserving water samples prior to chemical analysis?

We are sampling waste water and would like to analyse its chemical composition (most importantly phosphate, nitrate, ammonia, nitrite, sulfate) by ion chromatography. However, we need to store the...

03 June 2015 9,667 38 View