Nicholas Bennette

TL;DR: This work proposes the use of biofuels derived from aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs, more commonly known as cyanobacteria, algae, and diatoms, to mitigate some of the potentially deleterious environmental and agricultural consequences associated with current land-based-biofuel feedstocks.

TL;DR: This LC-MS/MS-based method provides for accurate time-resolved quantification of multiple metabolites in parallel, thus enabling experimental verification of the active metabolic pathways.

TL;DR: The construction of the first glgC null mutant of a marine cyanobacterium is reported and its impact on dark anoxic metabolism (autofermentation) is investigated and it is suggested that insoluble carbohydrates rather than osmolytes were the preferred substrate for autofermentation.

TL;DR: In the marine diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, it was determined that cell growth in nitrate (NO3−)-deprived cultures resulted predominantly in de novo lipid synthesis, and this new lipid consisted primarily of triacylglycerides (TAGs).

TL;DR: A nifJ knockout mutant was constructed that lacks one of two pathways for the oxidation of pyruvate in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp.