• Algae & Cultivation – Algae, Growth Requirements and Systems Engineering
- Characterization and screening of certain strains and their growth requirements for stress tolerance and neutral lipid or carbohydrate production. 
• Bio-Fuels in Algae- Lipids and carbohydrates in algae and their conversion to bio-diesel, and  bio-ethanol
- The basic demands, neutral lipids of short chain saturated fatty acids and easily fermented carbohydrates.   
• Technology – Algal Cultivation, Carbon supply, Harvesting, Dewatering, Extraction, Lipid and Starch Processing and Upgrading
- Open and closed bioreactors; low cost harvesting and drying; processing the algae to bio-diesel and bio-ethanol at industrial level
• Algal Techno-Economics – Capital Costs, Production Costs, Impact of Co-Products
- Can algae be the feasible alternative source of bio-fuels?
• Algal Bio-Fuels in Asia
- Need for non-agricultural resources, land or sea, flue gas and know-how.  

Prof. Ami Ben-Amotz has extensive research and industry experience on algae. He is the Founder of Seambiotic Ltd., a start-up company aiming to grow algae on wastes of electric power plants, flue gas and turbine cooling water. In collaboration with Israeli Electric Co., Seambiotic established a pilot plant for algal production ponds of 1,000m2 are in close vicinity to the power plant. Cultivation for the last 36 months showed a few algal species contain high carbohydrates and lipds, efficient for biodiesel and bioethanol production.

Prof. Ben-Amotz is Emeritus Professor of Marine Phycology at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Israel. After his post doctorate studies at Brandeis University, USA on H2 prodcution by algae, he returned to Israel and initiated research academic activity at the NIO and at the Weitzman Institute of Science to study Dunaliella. The fruitful cooperation led the way to establishment of the commercial Dubaliella production plant in Eilat, known today as Nature Beta Technologies (NBT) Ltd., a subsidiary of Nikken Sohonsha Co., Japan. He is currently the Chief Scientist of both NBT Ltd., and of Nikken Sohonsha Co. NBT grows beta-carotene rich algae Dunaliella by the Red Sea and exports dry algae powder to Japan. The beta-carotene Dunaliella powder has been marketed in mass quantity to Asia since 1990 with high market demand and economical potential.