A long time ago, in January 2020, when the pandemic was merely a phantom menace and people could go outside and travel (unimaginable!), way back then Jack visited the British Phycological Society conference and interviewed a lot of people. So many that we’re still processing those tapes, and in this [...]

AlgaTalk

Episode 24. BPS Chronicles: A Portable Microscope, Algae Oil and Photobioreactors

In this episode, Jack is joined by Eyal Ronen from TransAlgae, a company that has developed an algae-based platform for oral delivery of medicine. Previously on the show, we had talked about different ways algae can be used in disease treatment, whether being medicine or as in this case delivering [...]

Episode 23. Using Algae to Fight Diseases (including COVID-19)

Remember when life was easier way back when? Long long two weeks ago? Well, those were the days! We used to talk about algae on this podcast, but guess what, we’re are still doing it! In this new episode (delivered to you absolutely coronavirus free via the internet) Jack talks [...]

Episode 22. Discovering Algae Design Capabilities with Samuel Iliffe

And we are back! Time might be a flat circle (who knows really ? ) but it definitely spins fast. It’s been a couple of months since there was a new episode but rest assured we have not been idling around. Jack, for example, made it a tradition to visit [...]

Episode 21. British Phycological Society Conference 2020. Part 1

Ho-ho-ho, everyone! Welcome to the year 2020 and to the episode #20, which we intentionally held back in order to achieve such a “coincidence”. No, just kidding, we are not that smart. Anyway, our first episode of the new year is somewhat special. As we’ve mentioned before, both of us [...]

Episode 20. Talking Commercial Algae with Hagai Stadler

We have to finally acknowledge the elephant in this algae room: biofuel. We’ve been talking about numerous aspects of algae and ways of using them but algae biofuels remained untouched. Until now. This episode features Maxwell A Ware, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Peers lab at Colorado State University, [...]

Episode 19. Talking Biofuel with Maxwell Ware

The wait is over! And even if you were not waiting (we know you were) still here it comes. The 2nd part of Jack’s interview with Madeline Hutchins and Frances Gallagher about Ellen Hutchins. In the second half of their conversation, they talk more about the struggles of being a [...]

Episode 18. Part 2. Ellen Hutchins, The Story Worth Telling

We are back! They are back! She is back! Almost ten episodes ago, back in April 2019, we talked about a wonderful woman Ellen Hutchins, the first Irish female botanist, and guess what, we are talking about her again in this new episode. There are two great reasons to get [...]

Episode 18. Part 1. Ellen Hutchins, The Irish Queen of Seaweeds

This time on the podcast we have a special guest Courtney Boyd Myers from AKUA, a company that makes kelp jerky. Jack interviews Courtney about the product itself, how it came to be and why they need chefs. They also talk about the efforts the company makes to keep production [...]

Episode 17. Kelp Jerky (with Courtney Myers)

After a quite serious and heavy episode about alga blooms, we decided to talk about something more positive, more summer vibe-y. So in this episode, we talk about harmony, a certain kind that is called symbiosis. There are many cases of symbiotic relationships between algae and animals, and we wanted [...]

Episode 16. Algae-Animal Symbiotic Relationships

“Impossible to see the fish in the water is, algae blooms cloud everything,” said no Yoda ever but if he saw algae blooming that would probably be his reaction. That’s right, in this episode Jack and I are talking about harmful algal blooms (HABs), a phenomenon that people encounter in [...]

Episode 15. Harmful Algal Blooms – The Dark Side of Algae

The OG crew is back together again and as it is often the case with Jack and me, we take on a huge topic to discuss. This time we try to look at algae as the food of the future. Admitting the scope of the question, we go over some [...]

Episode 14. Algae As The Food of The Future

The episode number “Baker’s Dozen” comes to you live, a format we haven’t tried before, which makes it very unusual. And it’s not the only thing that is special. It also needs a little bit of context. Deep in the Israeli desert, there is an algae farming factory, Algatech, that [...]

Episode 13. AlgaTalk Live! at AlgaFest

This new episode in its own way continues the topic of algae and health with the difference being this time we talk about the health of algae. Growing algae, or seaweed in this case, has farmers face some challenges and diseases that infect the seaweed are among them. To get [...]