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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Algae Biotechnology by University of California San Diego

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About the Course

For decades, researchers have been studying microalgae to understand their biological functions and how we can use technology to harness algae’s power to create a wide range of commercial products. In this course, we will cover how synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and metabolic engineering is used in algae biotechnology, and also examine the current state of algae biotechnology research and tools. We’ll also explore some of the common bio-products we can make from algae, and take a look at some real-world algae companies that are using algae biotechnology to create products consumers can buy today. This course is part of a series of courses produced by the Algae Technology Educational Consortium and UC San Diego with funding from the Algae Foundation, National Renewable Energy Lab, and the U.S. Department of Energy....

Top reviews

CM

Jun 28, 2024

Insightful, as a biotechnology student l learnt some things that l couldn't have learnt in class only. I recommend those willing to know more about algae and marine plants to try this course.

KP

Jan 19, 2024

From this course I get new insights about algae and im arraging proposal research for my PhD. and through this online course I get inspiration to comtinue write my proposal.

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By Erick R C T

Oct 26, 2022

It's a great course that gives you a broad view of Algae applications, the part of molecular biology is easy to understand, and I think my only complain is that from week 4 to 6 it becomes kind of repetitive with so many lectures about companies.

By Davide B

Jun 8, 2021

Great and interesting course, as a Uni student i have seen some of the biotech aspects in my junior years, but in this course these aspect are presented to fast, i would suggest to summarize them in 1/2 videos but explained better

By Pedro C

Jan 21, 2022

Clara y concisa información sobre cultivos de microalgas, macroalgas y cianobacterias...Excelente!!!

By Sadaf A

Jun 5, 2021

It was very informative course. Bit complex at some points of metabolism, whoever, I enjoyed it.

By Yurou D

Feb 27, 2022

This course has taught me a lot about the research and industrial development of algae.

By Twinkle R

Jul 18, 2021

This course was full of knowledge and was really easy because it had all key elements .

By Ángel F V

Mar 10, 2022

Buen curso, me ha gustado y estoy mas interesado en la bioctenologia

By Dhruva M

Nov 7, 2022

Some more technical studies can be useful.

By Amisha T

Aug 24, 2021

it was informative

By ainun z f

Jun 25, 2021

it was Greattt!!!

By Randy Z

Jan 25, 2023

Very inspiring!

By Akanksha s

Apr 1, 2021

it was gr8888

By meet k

Jan 11, 2024

good

By Osaid

Feb 13, 2023

good

By Annie G

Feb 23, 2022

First half was really informative from a scientific viewpoint, although just as in the intro course the visual presentation could be made better (clearer, less messy). The second half, however, felt more like a company pitch meeting. It's great if you're interested to see which companies are out there, and it is interesting to see the science in commercial use, but I think it's iffy to mix in business into education. Also, I'm here for the sciency geekness, hehe. All in all, good.

By Manuel S A

Oct 11, 2022

It has been interesting, but some of the videos are more similar to a comercial advertisement than a biotech presentation.

It is very funny to find, in a Biotechnology course, that some of the companies are claiming that their products are "Non-GMO"

In some talks there is no supplementary material provided in order to expand the knowledge

By Eda Y T

Oct 21, 2024

Very interesting and informative. But I would have liked it more if the course and the introduction to the different companies were more up to date (this was done around 2017). So what does the industry look like now and the same goes for the mentioned companies ?

By Caelyn M

Mar 20, 2022

Very uneven lectures, some were okay; but many were basically just a grad student summarizing their research. Or worse, some company describing their product.