board members esmb 2024-2025
PRESIDENT
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PAST President
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secretary
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treasurer
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ELECTED BOARD MEMBER
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elected board member
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elected board member
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ELECTED BOARD MEMBER
GIOVANNA ROMANO Giovanna Romano is senior researcher at of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, in the Eco-sustainable Marine Biotechnology department (www.szn.it). She graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Naples Federico II. Current research interest is the identification and exploitation of diatom-derived natural compounds for the development of new products for pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical and nutraceutical applications, with a special attention on the study of pathways involved in the biosynthesis of valuable molecules.She was involved in several Italian and EU projects focusing on drug discovery from marine microalgae. Dr. Romano is partner in the SZN-CNR spin-off company BioSEArch srl, founded in 2016 for the development of new pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical compounds from marine microalgae. https://www.biosearchsrl.com/ |
ELECTED BOARD MEMBER
ELEONORA CURCURACI Eleonora is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Palermo (Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, DISTEM), in the Laboratory of Marine Biochemistry and Ecotoxicology of Trapani (Italy) under the supervision of Doctor Andrea Santulli and Doctor Concetta Maria Messina, in collaboration with the Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Environment Marin (LEMAR), supervised by Professor Claire Hellio (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France) as foreign tutor of the PhD project entitled: “Production of high value-added nutraceuticals in a multitrophic aquaculture system within a closed-circuit marine hatchery (NUTRAQUA)”. The main objective of the NUTRAQUA project is to combine aquaculture and biotechnology through the extraction and the characterisation of bioactive compounds, obtained from extractives species associated to fish, and their potential utilisation in nutraceutical field. |
industry representative
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university of Brest representative
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STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
RITA O. SOUSA Rita O. Sousa is a PhD student (since 2019) in Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells from the University of Minho, Portugal, affiliated to I3Bs - Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics (3B’s Research Group) of University of Minho. BSc degree in Marine Biology and Biotechnology (2012) and MSc degree in Biotechnology of Marine Resources (2017) from the Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar (ESTM) of the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPL), Peniche, Portugal. She developed her knowledge in the valorization of the marine resources and by-products, focusing on the areas of green and blue biotechnology, through the extraction and characterization of compounds of interest (biopolymers, such as collagen), aiming the development of marine inspired biomaterials for regenerative medicine strategies. She is the author or co-author of 7 experimental scientific publications, 1 book chapter, and 1 patent. |
publisher's representative
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honorary member of the board
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honorary member of the board
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