Helen Liu

University of California, Berkeley

0000-0001-8419-4401

Projects

Investigating Oiliness: Systems Comparison of Photoautotrophic and Heterotrophic Lipid Production in Auxenochlorella protothecoides.

Lead Institution

University of California, Berkeley

Principal Investigator

Jeffrey Moseley

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Auxenochlorella protothecoides is a photosynthetic, Trebouxiophyte alga, with a small, highly compact nuclear genome. Auxenochlorella strains are highly oleaginous, accumulating up to 60% of dry…