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Congratulations to Nurit for recieving school excelent students award for 2021!

1.10.2020
Our book on Marine Biorefineries for the Blue economy is published!!

1.3.2020
Congratulations to Meiron Zollmann for winning the Israel Water Authority PhD fellowship

1.1.2020
Congratulations to Rima Gnaim for winning the Rothschild foundation PhD fellowship

20.6.2019
Sincerely Congratulations to Meghanath for being selected for an Assistant Professor position in Goa University, Department of Biotechnology. Great news!

9.12.2018
Alex gave an invited talk for the Innovations in Wound Healing conferece. He was chosen a IWH Faculty of 2018

20.11.2018
Congratulations to Yoni and Shai for paper accepted to Analytica Chimica Acta. Great job

17.10.2018
Mark Polikovsky was awarded a GreenTalent2018 Award from the German Federal Government

1.10.2018
Congratulations to Meiron to winning a Manna Center for Food Security Fellowship

28.7.2018
A joint paper led by Prof.Livney from Technion group on protein extraction from seaweeds using food grade protocol is accepted to Food Hydrocolloids.

10.7.2018
Arthur is invited to present his work on macroalgae biomass deashing with PEF on the Nonthermal Food processing technology conference in Salerno

12.6.2018
Alex gave an invited talk on Offshore macroalgae biorefinery for energy and food production talk at the 8th Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts in Seattle

6.6.2018
Amihai and Hadar presented a poster on our work on offshore energy production at the Chief Scientist of Ministry of Energy conference

4.1.2018
Welcome to Dr. Supratim Ghosh, who joins our group together with prof. Gozin group to work on advances aviation biofuels

18.12.2017
Meiron, Arthur, Mark and Meghanath presnted our work on the Israel Biotechnology Engineering Society meeting in Tel Aviv

5.09.2017
Arthur presented the Algae Biorefineries for Sustainable Cities in the Coastal Cities conference at Tel Aviv

12.08.2017
Mark was awarded a full PhD fellowship for bioethanol production by the Ministry of Science and Technology. Moreover, Mark received a award from the Rieger Foundation for the excellence in environmental research!

10.08.2017
Meghanath was awarded a TATA foundation fellowship.

1.08.2017
Arthur recieved a XIN Center Award for a research visit to Tsinghua University- Congratulations.

22.06.2017
Alex gave an invited talk on electroporation for algal biorefineries at the 7th international conference on Algal Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefinery in Maimi.

22.06.2017
Oz presented a work on macroalgae photobioreactor design at the 7th international conference on Algal Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefinery in Maimi.

24.05.2017
Today we organised a first workshop on Offshore Marine Biorefineries in Israel. Almost 100 people attended the event which was supported by the Ministry fo Energy and German Embassy in Israrl. Twenty speakers from 12 academic institutions from Israel and Germany presented different approaches for science, technology, economics and policy required to develop offshore biomass production.

24.05.2017
With prof.David Zilberman from UC Berkeley and Dr.Ruslana Palatnik from Haifa University we won a one year BARD grant of $100,000 to develop a model for marine biorefineries economic assessment.

17.05.2017
Our book on Bioengineering in Wound Healing. A systems approach has been released by World Scientific

1.05.2017
Oz will present his work on the The 7th International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts

15.2.2017
Congratulations to Shai for completing his MSc thesis

25.1.2017
Congratulations to Meiron for winning the Gordon Energy grant and getting the Phycomorph Cost Action funding for a scientific mission to Holland.

16.09.2016
Our and Zohar Yakhini (IDC Herzelia ) labs won the Microsoft Azure Research Award to use parralel computing to develop an algorithm to quantify sugars in the algae biomass. The proposal was led by our undergraduate lab member Yonatan Peleg. Good job Yoni!

30.06.2016
A group of professors and PhD students the Mexico Polytechnio Nacional visited the environmental bioengineering laboratory

27.06.2016
With Dr.Berk Usta and prof.Martin Yarmush from Harvard Medical School recieved a joint BSF start up grant for the project on burn wounds disinfection by pulsed electric fields.

20.06.2016
We won a Kamin grant from the Ministry of economy to develop a pulsed electric field device for phytochemical extraction from macroalgae

16.05.2016
Alex gave a talk at TAU event on future infrastructures

10.05.2016
Welcome to Arthur!

10.04.2016
Congratulations to Noam for winning the Efrat Pompas price at PSES!

16.01.2016
Our new paper on Longitudinal, 3D Imaging of Collagen Remodeling in Murine Hypertrophic Scars In Vivo using Polarization-sensitive Optical Frequency Domain Imaging with collaborators from Harvard Medical School and Shriners Burns Hospital has been featured on cover of the January issue of the Journal Investigative Dermatology
Jouranl ranked 1 in Dermatology.
Sincere congratulations to William Lo for his hard work on this paper.

12.01.2016
Congratulations to Oz for receiving the one year graduate student grant from the TAU Gordon Energy Center for materials and equipment for algae cultivation system!

20.12.2015
Together with collaborators from TAU (prof. Alex Liberzon), Weizmann Institute of Science (prof. Ilan Koren)and IOLI (Dr. Alvaro Israel)
Alex Golberg has been awarded 480,500 NIS grant from the Israel Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Water Resources
The title of the grant is "Assessment of offshore macroalgae biomass production for energy in Israel"

20.12.2015
Together with collaborators from TAU (prof. Avi Kribus), Israel Center for Marine Aquaculture (Dr. Lior Gutman)
Alex Golberg has been awarded 785,000 NIS grant from the Israel Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Water Resources
The title of the grant is "Processes for biomass deconstruction for biofuels production"

12.12.2015
Mark Polikovksy won the Short term Scientific Missions travel grant from Phycomorph Cost action.
26.10.2015
Dr. Kapilkumar Ingle won the Israel foreign ministery postdoctoral award to work at our laboratory.
Welcome Kapil!

Mark Polikovksy won a Rieger Foundation Fellowship
Congratulations!

Francois will present a work on Energy efficient Ulva drying with pulsed electric fields during World Congress on Electroporation and PEF technologies Portoroz. Slovenia.

Rui and Mark will attend a summer school on Energy and Sustainability in August in Berlin.

Mark Polikovksy joins the lab. Mark will work on the microbiology and macroalgae biorefineries.

Environmental Exergonomics for Sustainable Design and Analysis of Energy Systems has been accepted to Energy.

ENVIRONMENTAL EXERGONOMICS: SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS OF ENERGY SYSTEMS CONSIDERING IMPACTS ON ECO-SYSTEMS SERVICES. Has been accepted to ECOS 2015.

SEAWEED BIOREFINERIES: EXERGY EFFICIENCY, FERMENTATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS; EXAMPLE OF POTENTIAL PRODUCTION OF BIOETHANOL FROM KAPPAPHYCUS ALVAREZZI IN PHILIPPINES. Has been accepted to ECOS 2015.