New paper about the antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of Sphaerospermopsis sp. LEGE 00249 lipids. This strain was selected after screening 600 microalgae and cyanobacteria strains from two culture collections (one of them LEGE-CC).
Cepas V, Gutiérrez-Del-Río I, López Y, Redondo-Blanco
Our new paper uncovering the Bioactive Potential Of Cyanobacterial of LEGE Natural Products Library (LEGE-NPL):
Ferreira, L.; Morais, J.; Preto, M.; Silva, R.; Urbatzka, R.; Vasconcelos, V.; Reis, M. Uncovering the Bioactive Potential of a Cyanobacterial Natural Products Library Aided
An overview of the Blue Biotechnology and Ecotoxicology Culture Collection (LEGE-CC) was published, which include the release of the first version of the strain catalog:
Ramos, V., Morais, J., Castelo-Branco, R. et al. (2018). Cyanobacterial diversity held in microbial biological
Cyanobacterial strains from the Blue Biotechnology and Ecotoxicology Culture Collection (LEGE-CC) will be screened as a source of bioactive compounds with effects on obesity and obesity-related co-morbidities in the CYANOBESITY project, new European CIIMAR project coordinated by Ralph Urbatzka.