We are pleased to announce that the Themed Issue "Cyanobacterial blooms and toxins in water resources: Occurrence, impacts and management" is out in Advances in Limnology and Oceanography! 

This Themed Issue is the work of COST Action CYANOCOST, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)

Guest Editors: Pavel Babica, Camilla Capelli, Damjana Drobac, Spyros Gkelis.

Dr. Spyros Gkelis, head of cyanolab, took part in the celebration of DNA Day 2017 in the School of Biology. The School of Biology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki celebrates the DNA Day for the 7th year, by inviting high school students to join talks and workshops, like a super-easy DNA isolation method that could be performed even at home! 

Spyros Gkelis,  Management Committee member of the EU Algae COST  is attending the the biggest EuAlgae meeting held up to now! The meeting will focus especially on collaborations between academia and industry working in the field of utilization of microalgae biomass for sustainable fuels and fine chemical products. Except fruitful discussions COST members had the opportunity to try new algal bio-products brought by the industry. We are set up to change the algae bio-product world in Europe! 

Our recent publication:

• Gkelis, S., Panou, M. 2016. Capturing biodiversity: linking a cyanobacteria culture collection to the “scratchpads” virtual research environment enhances biodiversity knowledge. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7965

is featured in the last Newsletter of the Hellenic Botanical Society. Below you can see a screenshot of this Newsletter!