Ms Hannah Connabeer is a postgraduate research student within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.
MSci Marine Biology 1st Class Hons (University of Southampton)
I am interested in developing and using marine photosynthetic organisms as platforms for the sustainable production of a wide variety of valuable compounds, for example biofuels.
My current research centres on ways to enhance the growth rate of diatoms. I am looking at different culturing/ dilution regimes and nutrient sources as well as identifying genes that could be engineered to increase energy synthesis and growth rate.
Research project: Blue Biotechnology
Tom Bibby
Matthew Terry
Ivo Tews