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SOLENALGAE SIGNED

IMPROVING PHOTOSYNTHETIC SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION IN MICROALGAL CULTURES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BIOFUELS AND HIGH VALUE PRODUCTS

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Project "SOLENALGAE" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA Organization address address: VIA DELL ARTIGLIERE 8 city: VERONA postcode: 37129 website: www.univr.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Italy [IT]
Project website	https://www.solelab.org/solenalgae
Total cost	1˙441˙875 €
EC max contribution	1˙441˙875 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2015-STG
Funding Scheme	ERC-STG
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-03-01 to 2021-02-28

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA Organization address address: VIA DELL ARTIGLIERE 8 city: VERONA postcode: 37129 website: www.univr.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (VERONA)	coordinator	1˙341˙875.00
2	POLITECNICO DI MILANO POLITECNICO DI MILANO Organization address address: PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32 city: MILANO postcode: 20133 website: www.polimi.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (MILANO)	participant	100˙000.00

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Project objective

Solar Energy is the most abundant renewable energy source available for our Planet. Light energy conversion into chemical energy by photosynthetic organisms is indeed the main conversion energy step, which originated high energy containing fossil deposits, now being depleted. By the way, plant or algae biomass may still be used to produce biofuels, as bio-ethanol, bio-diesel and bio-hydrogen. Microalgae exploitation for biofuels production have the considerable advantages of being sustainable and not in competition with food production, since not-arable lands, waste water and industrial gasses can be used for algae cultivation. Considering that only 45% of the sunlight covers the range of wavelengths that can be absorbed and used for photosynthesis, the maximum photosynthetic efficiency achievable in microalgae is 10%. On these bases, a photobioreactor carrying 600 l/m-2 would produce 294 Tons/ha/year of biomass of which 30% to 80%, depending on strain and growth conditions, being oil. However this potential has not been exploited yet, since biomass and biofuels yield on industrial scale obtained up to now were relatively low and with high costs of production. The main limitation encountered for sustained biomass production in microalgae by sunlight conversion is low light use efficiency, reduced from the theoretical value of 10% to 1-3%. This low light use efficiency is mainly due to a combined effect of reduced light penetration to deeper layers in highly pigmented cultures, where light available is almost completely absorbed by the outer layers, and an extremely high (up to 80%) thermal dissipation of the light absorbed. This project aims to investigate the molecular basis for efficient light energy conversion into chemical energy, in order to significantly increase the biomass production in microalgae combining a solid investigation of the principles of light energy conversion with biotechnological engineering of algal strains.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Laura Girolomoni, Stefano Cazzaniga, Alberta Pinnola, Federico Perozeni, Matteo Ballottari, Roberto Bassi LHCSR3 is a nonphotochemical quencher of both photosystems in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii published pages: 4212-4217, ISSN: 0027-8424, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1809812116	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116/10	2019-05-22
2016	Nicholas H. C. Lewis, Natalie L. Gruenke, Thomas A. A. Oliver, Matteo Ballottari, Roberto Bassi, Graham R. Fleming Observation of Electronic Excitation Transfer Through Light Harvesting Complex II Using Two-Dimensional Electronicâ€“Vibrational Spectroscopy published pages: 4197-4206, ISSN: 1948-7185, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02280	The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7/20	2019-05-28
2018	Perozeni F, Stella GR, Ballottari M LHCSR Expression under HSP70/RBCS2 Promoter as a Strategy to Increase Productivity in Microalgae published pages: 155, ISSN: 1422-0067, DOI: 10.3390/ijms19010155	International Journal of Molecular Sciences 19/1	2019-05-28
2018	M. Cecchin, S. Benfatto, F. Griggio, A. Mori, S. Cazzaniga, N. Vitulo, M. Delledonne, M. Ballottari Molecular basis of autotrophic vs mixotrophic growth in Chlorella sorokiniana published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24979-8	Scientific Reports 8/1	2019-05-28
2018	Antonio Perri, John H. Gaida, Andrea Farina, Fabrizio Preda, Daniele Viola, Matteo Ballottari, JÃ¼rgen Hauer, Sandro De Silvestri, Cosimo Dâ€™Andrea, Giulio Cerullo, Dario Polli Time- and frequency-resolved fluorescence with a single TCSPC detector via a Fourier-transform approach published pages: 2270, ISSN: 1094-4087, DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.002270	Optics Express 26/3	2019-05-28
2017	Francesco Mascia, Laura Girolomoni, Marcelo J. P. Alcocer, Ilaria Bargigia, Federico Perozeni, Stefano Cazzaniga, Giulio Cerullo, Cosimo Dâ€™Andrea, Matteo Ballottari Functional analysis of photosynthetic pigment binding complexes in the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis reveals distribution of astaxanthin in Photosystems published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16641-6	Scientific Reports 7/1	2019-05-28
2017	Andreas Uhmeyer, Michela Cecchin, Matteo Ballottari, Lutz Wobbe Impaired Mitochondrial Transcription Termination Disrupts the Stromal Redox Poise in Chlamydomonas published pages: 1399-1419, ISSN: 0032-0889, DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00946	Plant Physiology 174/3	2019-06-19
2017	Laura Girolomoni, Paola Ferrante, Silvia Berteotti, Giovanni Giuliano, Roberto Bassi, Matteo Ballottari The function of LHCBM4/6/8 antenna proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii published pages: erw462, ISSN: 0022-0957, DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw462	Journal of Experimental Botany 01/12/2016	2019-06-19
2016	Luca Zuliani, Nicola Frison, Aleksandra Jelic, Francesco Fatone, David Bolzonella, Matteo Ballottari Microalgae Cultivation on Anaerobic Digestate of Municipal Wastewater, Sewage Sludge and Agro-Waste published pages: 1692, ISSN: 1422-0067, DOI: 10.3390/ijms17101692	International Journal of Molecular Sciences 17/10	2019-06-19
2017	Alberta Pinnola, Matteo Ballottari, Ilaria Bargigia, Marcelo Alcocer, Cosimo Dâ€™Andrea, Giulio Cerullo, Roberto Bassi Functional modulation of LHCSR1 protein from Physcomitrella patens by zeaxanthin binding and low pH published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11101-7	Scientific Reports 7/1	2019-06-19
2016	Alberta Pinnola, Hristina Staleva-Musto, Stefano Capaldi, Matteo Ballottari, Roberto Bassi, TomÃ¡Å¡ PolÃvka Electron transfer between carotenoid and chlorophyll contributes to quenching in the LHCSR1 protein from Physcomitrella patens published pages: 1870-1878, ISSN: 0005-2728, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.09.001	Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 1857/12	2019-06-19

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