"Traditionally, seaweeds have been cultivated to produce low-priced commodity products like carrageenan and agar. However, over the past twenty years, we have developed strain improvement methods that now allow us to produce seaweed strains that can produce high-value specialty products or new uses for seaweeds not previously possible. The current main theme of my lab's research is to use modern molecular and biotechnology tools to develop new products from seaweeds for human and fish consumption, as well as for the remediation of pollutants in the marine environment".

Prof. Don Cheney