Facilities
Dedicated research facilities have been established within the Qatar University Campus, for the Center for Sustainable Development, consisting of 4 fully equipped indoor laboratories, as well as an outdoor Algae Production Pilot in the North of Qatar.
Indoor Research Laboratories
The indoor research facilities, located at the Qatar University Campus, currently consist of four dedicated laboratories with state of the art equipment. Each laboratory focuses on a different part of the research process: Culture Collection, Indoor Cultivation, Food Security, Analytical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. The equipment present in the laboratories ranges from biological safety cabinets, environmental photo-incubators, shaker-incubators, advanced computer-controlled photobioreactors, to GC, HPLC and DNA sequencing equipment.
Algae Production Pilot Facility
The outdoor research facilities, located in Northern Qatar, consists of fifteen open raceway ponds for algae cultivation, ranging from 200L to 100,000L. Furthermore, the facility contains a small laboratory for culture monitoring, as well as a high-end industrial centrifuge for biomass harvesting.
