“…Commercial exploitation of cyanobacteria relies on intensive cultivation of biomass for the production of high-value compounds useful not only in nutraceutics, therapeutics and cosmetics but also for the production of advanced bio-material [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. In this context, we focused on a strain of Trichormus variabilis (Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault) Komárek & Anagnostidis, isolated from sediment biofilms of a dystrophic coastal lagoon [ 11 ]. T. variabilis VRUC168 was selected based on prior studies that showed ease of growth in a range of photobioreactors (PBRs), even in suspension, self-flocculation, and interesting productivity of nutraceutical products, such as Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and Exopolymeric Substances (EPS) [ 12 , 13 ].…”