In 2025 we will once again be delivering our CCAP CPD course online, via MS Teams. The course is aimed at students, technicians, early career researchers, industry professionals and algae enthusiasts.
The course will run on Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th April 2025 from 9:00 to 16:45 GMT each day, a fee of £150 will be charged to cover costs.
You are invited to register for this unique course comprising:
Short lectures from our SAMS experts and External speakers on:
- Algal Biodiversity & Taxonomy
- Nutrition
- Photosynthesis
- Microalgae Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges
- Molecular Phycology and Bioinformatics
- Large scale microalgal culture
- Metabolomics
Practical Demonstrations by our technical experts on:
- Growth media preparation
- Strain Isolation
- Sub-culturing
- Enumeration
- Cryopreservation
- CCAP’s algal scale up facility (CCAP-ARIES)
Opportunities for discussion, questions and networking will be timetabled.
Please note that this course will focus on microalgae. CCAP’s host institute, the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) hosts the Seaweed Academy, which offers training in macroalgae and the seaweed industry with input from CCAP.
Feedback from the online Algaculture for Biotechnology course run in 2022 and 2023:
“Appreciate all the presenters and coordinators who were well informed, highly experienced and sincere”
“I personally mostly enjoyed the mixture of talks from the field of research and the hands-on videos. It was a really good mixture. I could not decide which lecture was the most interesting, the mixture was just really good!”
“This was a really useful course with lots of helpful tips on culturing in the lab which I will definitely be using in the future!”
Spaces will be limited and are allocated on a first come, first served basis. To apply please complete the online application form. If you have any questions please email ccap@sams.ac.uk.
We hope to have a programme available shortly, it is likely to be very similar to the 2023 programme which can be viewed here: 2023 CCAP Online Course Programme
Upon confirmation that you have been allocated a place, you will be contacted with details for payment.