Laboratory of Microalgal Biotechnology

Offer

  • Determination of heavy metals, macro, micro elements in environmental samples – OS iCAP 6500 ICP spectrometer.
  • Assessment of the heat combustion value of solid and liquid materials- calorimeter LECO 600 -Determination of the fatty acid profile – fatty acid methyl esters with gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS).
  • Determination of total nitrogen with the Kjeldahl method.
  • Isolation of extracellular polymers from the culture medium and determination of their chemical composition by spectrophotometric methods: content of proteins, carbohydrates and uronic acids.
  • Measurements of cell biomass concentration (optical density of cultures), determination of increments of dry cell mass (g L-1) .
  • Analysis of the biochemical composition of microalgal cells :
  • Spectrophotometric determination of photosynthetic pigments
  • Extraction-weight determination of lipid content with the modified Bligh-Dyer method
  • Spectrophotometric determination of carbohydrate content
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