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Algae: Systems Biology, Genomics and Strain Engineering

Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, PhD
Laboratory of Algal, Synthetic and Systems Biology
Associate Professor of Biology
Division of Science and Math
Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
New York University Abu Dhabi

This talk will include four vignettes starting with how we reconstructed a genome-scale, predictive, metabolic model for the model green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, then briefly describing our phylogenomic analysis of the model with respect to light and dark-induced genes. The talk will continue with describing our recent bioengineering strategy to increase photosynthesis efficiency of algae through a process we call “intracellular recompositioning of light,” and ending the lecture with genomics and metabolomics analyses of some 120 algal species that we have sequenced and are analyzing.