Student Assistant - Bremerhaven, Deutschland - Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Bremerhaven, Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government.

AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals.

Student Assistant (HIWI, M/F/d): Maintenance and care of different microalgae cultures

Background

Maintenance and care of different microalgae cultures for the support on the cultivation of mixotrophic culture of cyanobacteria Spirulina and its effect on the quality of the commercially relevant pigments.

The project "MixoArthroPigment" aims for the mixotrophic cultivation of Spirulina
_Arthrospira platensis_) using glucose as a carbon source is an innovative proposed solution to produce low chlorophyll concentrated biomass that could be used in food industry as a high-protein supplement.

Tasks
During your time as a student assistant, you will participate in the following tasks:

establishment of pelagic diatom culture methodology

- care and maintenance of microalgae cultures
- development of new microalgae culture systems
- different experimental approaches with microalgae

Requirements:

- previous experience with microalgae culturing and aquaculture
- experienced lab worker
- team worker

Further Information
Experiments and work will be conducted at the Centre for Aquaculture Research (ZAF) and in the ZMFE, in

Bremerhaven
Job-type: Part-time 40 hours / month

Start:
June 2023

You are interested?

Ricardo Pereira
For further information please contact

Ricardo Pereira (