Llewellyn, Carole - Swansea University - Department of Biosciences

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My interests are in microalgae and cyanobacteria, how they function in their natural environment and how they can be used to help tackle society’s big challenges. These big challenges relate to climate change, human health, bioenergy, food-security, aquaculture, waste-water and industrial biotechnology. My early research focused on the study of chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments to understand phytoplankton community composition and function in relation to the carbon cycle and climate change. From this I developed an interest in algal biotechnology using my knowledge on microalgal carotenoids and UV sunscreen compounds working with industry to develop personal care products for anti-aging and cosmetics. (http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/publications/optimising-yield-of-antioxidants-and-sunscreens-in-microalgae-for-health-and-beauty-products-yasmin-link-project-summary). This has led to my wider interest in understanding metabolism in microalgae and large scale cultivation of microalgae for industrially useful products including for food and for sustainable chemicals to replace existing petroleum based chemicals. In recent years I have led a number of projects funded by the Research Councils and the Technology Strategy Board (now Innovate-UK) working with industry to develop sustainable chemicals from microalgae. I also led the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML ) component of the European INTERREG- EnAlgae project (http://www.enalgae.eu/). I am currently working with colleagues at PML and in India on a project funded by BBSRC researching algal:bacterial interactions using microbiological and molecular techniques with a future aim of producing biofuel from microalgae cultivated on wastewater. Currently I am investigating metabolomics as a new systems biology approach to better understand metabolism in aquatic microbes both in their natural environment and for applied industrial research. I am keen to develop student interest in all aspects of algal research. Areas of Expertise Microalgae and cyanobacteria Phytoplankton ecology Microbial biodiversity and biogeochemistry Chlorophylls and carotenoids Microbial UV suncreens - mycosporine-like amino acids Algal biotechnology Metabolomics Start Date End Date Position Held Location 2005 2014 Band 4 Principal Scientist Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth, UK

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Derikvand, P., Llewellyn, C. & Purton, S. (in press). Cyanobacterial metabolites as a source of sunscreens and moisturizers: a comparison with current synthetic compounds. European Journal of Phycology Agirbas, E., Martinez-Vicente, V., Brewin, R., Racault, M., Airs, R. & Llewellyn, C. (2015). Temporal changes in total and size-fractioned chlorophyll-a in surface waters of three provinces in the Atlantic Ocean (September to November) between 2003 and 2010. Journal of Marine Systems 150, 56-65. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22015 doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2015.05.008 Llewellyn, C., Sommer, U., Dupont, C., Allen, A. & Viant, M. (2015). Using community metabolomics as a new approach to discriminate marine microbial particulate organic matter in the western English Channel. Progress in Oceanography 137, 421-433. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20537 doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2015.04.022 Bale, N., Airs, R., Martin, P., Lampitt, R. & Llewellyn, C. (2015). Chlorophyll-a transformations associated with sinking diatoms during termination of a North Atlantic spring bloom. Marine Chemistry 172, 23-33. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20538 doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2015.03.005 Agirbas, E., Feyzioglu, A., Kopuz, U. & Llewellyn, C. (2015). Phytoplankton community composition in the south-eastern Black Sea determined with pigments measured by HPLC-CHEMTAX analyses and microscopy cell counts. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 95(1), 35-52. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20551 doi:doi:10.1017/S0025315414001040 Airs, R., Temperton, B., Sambles, C., Farnham, G., Skill, S. & Llewellyn, C. (2014). Chlorophyll f and chlorophyll d are produced in the cyanobacterium Chlorogloeopsis fritschii when cultured under natural light and near-infrared radiation. FEBS Letters 588, 3770-3777. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20556 doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2014.08.026