Publications

Today the Devarenne Lab had a new paper published in Genome Announcements. The paper describes the draft nuclear genome of the B race of Botryococcus braunii.  The study was lead by graduate student Dan Browne and was a collaboration between many labs and the sequencing was conducted by the JGI.

The Texas A&M University AgriLife news agency also released a news story about this study. The story can be found here.

Recently the Devarenne lab had a new paper published in the Journal of Natural Products. The paper describes the isolation and structural characterization, using extensive NMR analysis, of several new botryococcene molecules from Botryococcus braunii. The study was lead by graduate student Mehmet Tatli.

Recently the Devarenne lab had a paper published in the Analyst from our ongoing collaboration with the lab of Dr. Arum Han. The paper highlights efforts to incorporate Raman spectroscopy into the microfluidic devices we have developed for the analysis of algal growth and lipid production.

Today the Devarenne lab had a paper published based on our collaborative studies with the lab of Dr. Edmundo Lozoya-Gloria at CINVESTAV in Irapuato, México.  The study was published in PeerJ and details ROS production by Botryococcus braunii in response to stresses as well as the characterization of the Defender Against Death 1 (DAD1) gene from B. braunii, race B. These studies are the focus of Ivette Cornejo Corona’s thesis studies.

Today the Devarenne lab had a new paper published in the Journal of Molecular Structure describing the unique spectroscopic features of the hydrocarbons from the L race of B. braunii using Raman spectroscopy. This study was one of several we have initiated with the lab of Jaan Laane for Raman spectroscopy studies.