[DIYbio] Re: Penicillin to "Clean" algae cultures?

Interesting. I've been wondering about that as well, since we often get cyanobacteria contamination in our dinoflagellate cultures.

Might be feasible to isolate our own dino cultures from seawater when there's bioluminescent waves at the beach. The problem is that the dinoflagellates grow much slower than cyanobacteria, so you'd need some way to give them a leg up...

Patrik

On Friday, November 16, 2012 8:27:17 AM UTC-8, Conner Berthold wrote:

Hi,

Was wondering if anyone had tried to use antibiotics to make bacteria free, axenic algal cultures? If found this paper on it, and the main problem looks like the need for a mixed antibiotic mixture to effectively remove the bacteria.

-Conner

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