Skills:
Phycology and Microbiology Cultivation of many types of algae and cyanobacteria, bench-scale and outdoor photobioreactor, bacterial cell culture and transformation, eukaryotic cell culture, microbiological methods, fermentation, microscopy, PAM fluorometry (PSI FluorCam) Molecular Biology Molecular cloning techniques, PCR and qPCR, primer design, DNA sequence analysis, extraction, purification and analysis of DNA and RNA, Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE), phylogenetic analysis, molecular beacons Biochemistry Flow cytometry (MIlipore-Guava), chromatography (affinity, size exclusion, ion exchange), GC-MS, HPLC, spectrophotometry, protein over-expression and purification, electrophoresis, western blot, ELISA Computer Computer skills include Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, JMP and DNA/RNA sequence analysis software