ESF Research Conferences

Opening session
Session Chair: Jan Olafsen - Conference Chair, University of Tromsø, NO

Jan Olafsen - Conference Chair, University of Tromsø, NO
Opening of the Conference - welcome and brief introduction

Marcel Jaspars - Marine Biodiscovery Centre, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Grand challenges for current and future marine biotech research in Europe

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

Marine Biotechnology, Human Health and Well-being: Biodiscovery of novel marine-derived biomolecules and methodologies
Session Chair: Marcel Jaspars - Marine Biodiscovery Centre, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Bill Fenical - Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US
The deep oceans, developing an unexplored resource for microbial drug discovery
(keynote lecture)

Angelo Fontana - Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (CNR-ICB), IT
The Search of Bioactive Marine Natural Products in the Light of Ecological and Physiological Considerations

Lunch

Andrés Francesch - PharmaMar, ES
Development of Yondelis as an anticancer drug

Marc Schumacher - Fondation Recherche sur le Cancer et les Maladies du Sang, LBMCC, LU
Marine compounds as inhibitors of pro-inflammatory, proliferative and anti-apoptotic mechanisms

Elena Averina - Russian Academy of Science, Baikal Institute of Nature Managment, RU
Perspectives of using of Baikal fish oil for delivery nanostructured lipid drugs carriers (short talk)
Archana Chugh - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, IN
Marine Traditional Knowledge for bioprospecting for novel drug development in the Pharmaceutical Industry (short talk)
Sigmund Vegard Sperstad - University of Tromsø, NO
Characteristics of antimicrobial peptides isolated from marine invertebrates (short talk)
Johannes F. Imhoff - Leibniz-Institute for Marine Sciences IFM-GEOMAR, DE
Natural products from bacteria associated with marine sponges and algae (short talk)

Poster Session
Chair: Raffaella Casotti - Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Napoli, IT 

Victor Smetacek - Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, DE
Marine Biotechnology Research and Environmental Health

Packo Lamers (TBC) - Wageningen University, NL
The stress metabolism of Dunaliella salina (short talk)
Euan Robert Brown - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, IT 
Exploring potential biophysical and cellular level assay systems to determine the impact of engineered nanoparticles in aqueous environments (short talk)
Louisa Giannoudi - Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), GR
An amperometric immunosensor tested on Prorocentrum lima cultures (short talk)

Lunch

Levent Piker - CRM-Coastal Research & Management, DE
Sustainable Aquaculture and the Development of Innovative Products from Marine Living Resources in the Baltic Sea (short talk)
Ana Ribeiro - Universidade do Porto, INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, PT
Getting inspiration from Nature: sea urchins as models for the development of biomimetic materials for tissue regeneration (short talk)
Assaf Shechter - Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IL
Biotechnological products based on molt-related calcium deposition in crustaceans (short talk)

Øyvind Lie - NIFES, Bergen, Norway
Sustainable aquafeeds to maximise the health benefits of farmed fish for consumers - challenges and opportunities

Brian Dixon - University of Wateloo, Ontario, CA
Aquaculture vaccine of the future

Ronald Osinga - Wageningen University, NL
The MIRA: CLE concept: mitigating effects of ocean acidification by sustainable production of food and energy through integrated maricultures  (short talk)
Dagmar Stengel - National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Pigments as natural products from marine macroalgae: limitations and potential – a case study from Ireland (short talk)
Stéphanie Bordenave-Juchereau - University of La Rochelle, LIENSs MAB/BIEN, FR
Marine cryptides as a tool to fight the metabolic syndrome (short talk)

Marine Models and Research Toolkits: new developments and advances
Session Chair: Manfred Höfle - Helmholtz Center of Infection Research, DE

Catherine Boyen - CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, FR
Can marine models contribute to marine biotechnology development?

12:10 - 12:30