Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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| Established | 1988 |
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Field of research
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Marine science research centre |
| Staff | 122 |
| Students | 30 |
| Address | Prospect Place |
| Location | Plymouth, Devon, England |
| Affiliations | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Website | www |
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (sometimes referred to as PML) in the city of Plymouth, England is an independent collaborative centre of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). PML's Chairman is Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent and PML's Chief Executive is Prof. Stephen de Mora.
They focus global issues of global warming and sustainability. They monitor the effects of ocean acidity on corals and shellfish and report this information to the UK government. It also cultivates algae that could be used to make biofuels or in the treatment of waste water by using technology such as photo-bioreactors. They work alongside the Boots Group to investigate the usage of algae in skin care protects, because of their content of compounds that adapt to protect themselves from the sun.
Within its Seawater Hall, PML contains an in-house, fully contained, algal scale-up pilot plant; which contains a 550 L biofence Photobioreactor and a 1200 L Raceway pond system, as well as a range of smaller bubble column reactor systems at 3.5 L and 11 L capacity, for smaller scale algal production. These facilities are regularly used to generate dried algal biomass on the scale of grams to hundreds of grams. This algal innovation centre also investigates a range of downstream processing techniques for algal harvesting. In addition to large-scale investigations, PML also has a Single Cell Genomics facility: a dedicated clean room environment for single cell isolation, equipped with a high speed Atomic Force Microscope, cell sorting capability through a BD FACSARIA and a number of liquid handling machines.
PML has a wholly owned trading subsidiary, PML Applications Ltd, which has been created to facilitate the exploitation and application of PML research and its products and to provide a more appropriate interface for working with end users, industrial and commercial partners.
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