Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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Coordinates: 50°21′57″N 4°08′52″W / 50.36583°N 4.14778°W / 50.36583; -4.14778
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Marine science research centre
Staff170 [1]
Students30
AddressProspect Place
LocationPlymouth, Devon, England
AffiliationsNatural Environment Research Council
Websitewww.pml.ac.uk

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (abbreviated as PML) is a

marine research organization and registered charity based in the city of Plymouth, England. It is a partner of the UK Research & Innovation's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). PML's chair is Janice Timberlake, its chief executive is Prof. Icarus Allen and its patron is the film-maker James Cameron
.

Research and capability

Research activity at PML broadly investigates global-scale issues of

Blue biotechnology, socioeconomics and policy advice
.

The Plymouth Marine Laboratory research ship "Plymouth Quest"

Specific research activities include the monitoring of

Boots Group to investigate the use of algae in skin-care products, since these organisms utilise sunscreen-like compounds to protect themselves from the sun.[2]

Within its Seawater Hall, PML contains an in-house, fully contained, algal scale-up pilot plant. This contains a 550L biofence photobioreactor and a 1200L

Atomic Force Microscope, cell-sorting flow cytometry
capabilities and a number of liquid-handling machines.

PML has a wholly owned trading subsidiary, PML Applications Ltd., which has been created to facilitate the exploitation and application of PML research and its products and to provide a more appropriate interface for working with end users, industrial and commercial partners.[citation needed]

History

The Plymouth Marine Laboratory was founded in 1988, mainly due to the recommendations of a

Marine Biological Association (MBA) with the NERC Institute for Marine Environmental Research
(IMER).

On 1 April 2002, PML changed from being a wholly owned NERC research centre to an independent organisation with charitable status.[4]

Affiliations

References

  1. ^ "People". Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
  2. ^ "The Plymouth Marine Laboratory". South West England RDA. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  3. PMID 26658738
    .
  4. ^ https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/68/68ii.pdf[bare URL PDF]

External links

50°21′57″N 4°08′52″W / 50.36583°N 4.14778°W / 50.36583; -4.14778

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