RECOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS FROM DOMESTICALLY GROWN SUGAR KELP

The goal of the project is to use a "green" extraction technology to recover compounds responsible for certain enzyme inhibitory activities valuable in cosmetics applications (and possibly other applications) from New England-farmed sugar kelp.Objective 1: Determine the efficacy of green extraction method for seaweed extraction. Determine what quantities of the compounds of interest can be recovered using extraction methodDetermine whether kelp age and different extraction conditions affect the amounts of compounds recoveredObjective 2: Determine bioactivity of compounds in extract.Determine whether resulting seaweed extracts have the enzyme inhibitory activity we are interested inDetermine whether kelp age and different extraction conditions affect recoveries of enzyme inhibitory activityObjective 3: Characterize the bioactive compounds in the extract.Confirm the identity of and characterize the compounds of interestDetermine whether kelp age and different extraction conditions affect the characteristics of the recovered compounds