Aldis Darzins

TL;DR: A brief summary of the current knowledge on oleaginous algae and their fatty acid and TAG biosynthesis, algal model systems and genomic approaches to a better understanding of TAG production, and a historical perspective and path forward for microalgae-based biofuel research and commercialization are provided.

TL;DR: The utility of this modular protein tagging system for cellular imaging and protein immobilization is demonstrated by analyzing multiple molecular processes associated with NF-kappaB-mediated cellular physiology, including imaging of subcellular protein translocation and capture of protein--protein and protein--DNA complexes.

TL;DR: Potential avenues of genetic engineering that may be undertaken in order to improve microalgae as a biofuel platform for the production of biohydrogen, starch-derived alcohols, diesel fuel surrogates, and/or alkanes are focused on.

TL;DR: A brief overview of past algal research sponsored by the US Department of Energy and a discussion of the technical and economic barriers that need to be overcome before production of microalgal-derived diesel-fuel substitutes can become a large-scale commercial reality can be found in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical approach to calculate an absolute upper limit to algal production based on physical laws and assumptions of perfect efficiencies, and present a best case approach that represents an optimistic target for production with realistic efficiencies.