{"id":206,"date":"2025-05-20T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/?p=206"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:58:39","slug":"visit-to-xanthellas-douglas-mckenzie-at-the-james-hutton-insitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/2025\/05\/20\/visit-to-xanthellas-douglas-mckenzie-at-the-james-hutton-insitute\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Xanthella&#8217;s Douglas McKenzie at the James Hutton Insitute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jason and I travelled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hutton.ac.uk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hutton.ac.uk\/\">The James Hutton Institute<\/a> this week to meet with Douglas McKenzie founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/xanthella.co.uk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/xanthella.co.uk\/\">Xanthella Ltd<\/a>. Some very interesting discussions around photobioreactors and agritech. Jason is shown below in front of an experimental greenhouse where potatoes were growing.  Our Business Innovation and Skills manager Matthew Linsley also joined us for one day. We acknowledge Newcastle University HEIF funds for supporting this visit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-23-at-16.25.21-769x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-23-at-16.25.21-769x1024.jpeg 769w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-23-at-16.25.21-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-23-at-16.25.21-768x1023.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-23-at-16.25.21-1153x1536.jpeg 1153w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/files\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-23-at-16.25.21.jpeg 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason and I travelled the The James Hutton Institute this week to meet with Douglas McKenzie founder of Xanthella Ltd. Some very interesting discussions around photobioreactors and agritech. Jason is shown below in front of an experimental greenhouse where potatoes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/2025\/05\/20\/visit-to-xanthellas-douglas-mckenzie-at-the-james-hutton-insitute\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/otticroze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}