Spanish Bank of Algae Inaugurated

Algae/Other Aquatic Organisms/Seaweed, Business News/Analysis, Spain

September 27, 2011

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(Algae Industry Magazine) The Minister for Science and Innovation of the Spanish Central Government, Cristina Garmendia, along with Paulino Rivero, President of the Canarian Government and José Regidor, Rector of the University of Las Palmas G.C. (ULPGC) have inaugurated the renovated facilities of the Spanish Bank of Algae (BEA), as a service of the Marine Biotechnology Centre.

The BEA, promoted several years ago by the ULPGC, has been recently granted 2.6 M€ (3.5M USD) by the Spanish Government, through the action “National Strategic Plan for Microalgae,” for being consolidated as a Deposit International Authority according to the Budapest Treaty. After that investment, the facility, located on the east coast of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain), is configured, in the words of the Minister, as the “national initiative” for research and industrial development through the potential use of algae.

…The Spanish Bank of Algae holds the only authorized culture collection in Spain of tropical and subtropical microalgae, cyanobacteria and extremophiles, particularly from the Macaronesian region. Objectives include sampling, isolation, identification, characterization, conservation and supply of strains and genomic DNA for scientific and industrial purposes based on microalgae cultures and applications development. READ MORE

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