Martin Spalding, Iowa State University (IMAGE)

Iowa State University

Martin Spalding, Iowa State University

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With the help of a $4.37 million grant from the US Department of Energy, Martin Spalding wants to develop a micro-algal platform that will allow micro-algae to be treated as a crop, including stacking desirable traits that may increase that oil production and the production into hydrocarbons.

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