Basic course
Title: Cultivation of marine and freshwater microalgae
In-person or in-company mode
Hours: 6h
Theoretical and practical class
Online Modality
Hours: 4h
Theoretical class
Exclusive live classes
Teaching plan
- Introduction to microalgae cultivation
- Factors influencing microalgal growth
- Required equipment, glassware, and materials
- Main culture media used
- Preparation of stock solutions and culture media
- Microalgae isolation techniques
- Culture maintenance
- Strain collection and culture bank management
- Types of cultivation systems
- Cultivation scales (tubes, Erlenmeyer flasks, carboys, and photobioreactors)
- Step-by-step microalgae cultivation
- Identification of contamination
- Cell counting
- Determination of cell density
- Growth curve
- Inoculum volume calculation
- Cell subculturing
- Maintenance frequency
- Good laboratory practices
- Cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization of materials
Target audience: Students, researchers, professionals seeking to improve and update themselves, laboratories that want to implement new analyzes in their scope, laboratories that seek accreditation with INMETRO or that wish to train their employees.