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The scientific basis of industrial algal technologies

We study microalgae and cyanobacteria cultures, develop cultivation regimes and methods for controlling target substances, and then test whether the processes can be scaled up. This page brings together the team's research directions, publications, intellectual property and confirmed results.

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Research directions

Six research directions

  • 01

    Industrial cultivation

    Intensive cultivation regimes suitable for transfer to larger volumes.

  • 02

    Selecting and studying cultures

    Identification, characterization and evaluation of cultures for applied tasks.

  • 03

    Biomass enrichment

    Conditions affecting the accumulation of target components in cells.

  • 04

    Obtaining target substances

    Preparing biomass for the extraction of pigments and other target substances.

  • 05

    Analytics and quality control

    Methods for quantitative control of the parameters of a specific batch.

  • 06

    Process scale-up

    Verifying the transfer of regime and control between configurations.

Team

Who is responsible for the research

Scientific lead of the direction

Algal technologies and microalgae cultivation

Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Area of responsibility: the research program, choice of analytical and control methods, evaluation of results.

Senior researcher at the algal technology laboratory of an academic institute. Intensive cultivation of microalgae and cyanobacteria, photobioreactors, production of carotenoids and phycobiliproteins. More than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 11 patents and author's certificates. Scientific support is provided under a contract with the A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Alexander P. Lykov

Biological activity: preclinical research

Doctor of Medical Sciences

Area of responsibility: research on the biological effects of cyanobacteria and microalgae in cell cultures and laboratory animals.

Leading researcher at the Laboratory of Cell Technologies, Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Lymphology — branch of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk). Cell biology and immunology, mesenchymal stem cells. Since 2020: studies of the effects of cyanobacteria and microalgae extracts and biomass on cells and laboratory mice. ORCID 0000-0003-4897-8676.

Cultures and collections

Documented cultures

Only confirmed names, deposit numbers and documents are published. Legal status and eligibility for supply are checked separately for each material: this is a scientific basis, not a product catalog.

Micractinium thermotolerans

The strain was deposited in the IPPAS microalgae collection of the K. A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, on 6 June 2025.

Code / deposit
IPPAS C-2084; GenBank PV187752 (18S rDNA)
Identification
Species identity confirmed morphologically and by the 18S rDNA sequence: report of the Federal Scientific Center of East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, under contract No. 3/2025-NIR, 2025.

Phaeodactylum tricornutum

The strain was deposited in the IPPAS microalgae collection of the K. A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, on 6 June 2025.

Code / deposit
IPPAS H-2083; GenBank PV191312 (rbcL)
Identification
Species identity confirmed morphologically and by the sequence of the chloroplast rbcL gene: report of the Federal Scientific Center of East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, under contract No. 3/2025-NIR, 2025.

Publications

Publications by topic

Papers, conference proceedings and abstracts by the team's researchers since 1998, mostly in Russian. The library (in Russian) can be filtered by topic, searched by organism or author, and links to the publishers.

Open the publications library (in Russian)Overview: biological effects of cyanobacteria and microalgae (in Russian) →

9 full texts under a CC BY license can be downloaded directly from the site

Methods and control

How control is organized

Internal protocols and specifications are the project's working documents. We do not call them official standards without the corresponding status.

Protocols and SOPs
The sequence of operations is recorded in versions, and every batch is linked to a protocol version.
Specifications
The list of parameters, methods and acceptable ranges is agreed for the task.
Sampling
Scheduled sampling at the cultivation and biomass preparation stages.
Quantitative analysis
Measurements are made by agreed methods, stating the laboratory and the method's limitations.

Evidence principles

How we publish results

A source for every claim

A figure, status, patent or result is published only with a reference to a supporting document.

Scale is stated explicitly

A laboratory result is not presented as a pilot one, nor a pilot result as a production one.

A paper is not a batch

Data from scientific publications are not carried over to the company's batches without their own analyses.

Authorship is not ownership

For intellectual property, the rights holder and the team's role are stated.

Result statuses:Published resultConfirmed by a report or protocolLaboratory developmentall statuses

Partnership

Tasks we are open to discussing

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  • Joint research
  • Culture verification
  • Regime development
  • Analytical validation
  • Pilot run
  • Process scale-up