Light-powered bacteria as biofactories

Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) can convert carbon dioxide to a range of useful industrial compounds, using energy derived from sunlight. However commercial production has not been achieved, in part due to the engineering issues associated with building low-cost photobioreactors (growth chambers).
At this meetup, David Lea-Smith (UEA) will discuss how cyanobacterial strains are genetically engineered to improve growth and produce compounds of interest and the development of photobioreactors that may make this a commercially viable technology.