esmb webinars
The ESMB Webinar Series will be inviting guest speakers from around the globe, to present their work which is linked with the exciting field of Marine Biotechnology. Topics will range from wood-eating animals and their biotechnological potential, to plastic degrading enzymes, microbe-deriving bioactive compounds, aquaculture and biofouling and many many more. We hope this Webinar Series will act as a platform for promoting and further enhancing collaborations while offering a window to new developments and stimulate interesting scientific conversations.
THE WEBINAR IS FREE BUT YOU HAVE TO REGISTER
Procedure for attending the webinar:
1. Please look up the event at the Eventbrite website.
2. Then click the 'Register' button on the site.
3. Fill the registration form and follow further instructions.
4. You will receive a ticket sent as mail to the e-mail address you have provided (order confirmation).
5. At the time of the webinar you click the 'Go to the online event' from the mail received.
6. Please allow time for downloading the webex software for accessing the webinar, if not installed.
Procedure for attending the webinar:
1. Please look up the event at the Eventbrite website.
2. Then click the 'Register' button on the site.
3. Fill the registration form and follow further instructions.
4. You will receive a ticket sent as mail to the e-mail address you have provided (order confirmation).
5. At the time of the webinar you click the 'Go to the online event' from the mail received.
6. Please allow time for downloading the webex software for accessing the webinar, if not installed.
past webinars
Abstract:
The BlueBio Cofund project SuReMetS will develop novel marine ingredients from underutilized material from fisheries and microalgae targeting the management of metabolic syndrome (MetS). In order to utilize the marine biomasses in an economically viable manner, it is essential to find efficient ways to process the material to release valuable ingredients. One of the main goals of SuReMetS is therefore to identify enzymes that can be used to process biomass with high efficiency at low temperatures. The positive human health effects of marine ingredients are well established. SuReMetS will target biofunctional ingredients with beneficial effects on biomarkers of MetS. The chronic and complex nature of MetS, makes it challenging to employ a single drug for long-term medication, hence the development of marine nutraceuticals represents a safer and better long-term option. The seminar will present the project outline and the current status of the project that started last June.
Biography:
Jeanette Hammer Andersen is a professor in marine bioprospecting at UiT and head of the natural products platform Marbio at UiT. Marbio has expertise in screening of extract libraries of natural product, including both terrestrial and marine micro- and macroorganisms, and has successfully characterized several novel bioactive compounds. Marbio has obtained funding through the national infrastructure program in Norway (NOR-OPENSCREEN), and is a specialized node in the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) EU-OPENSCREEN. Andersen’s research interest and focus is the discovery of novel bioactive compounds from the marine environment. In this seminar she will present the BlueBio Cofund project SuReMetS which she is coordinating.
Twitter: @hammerjeanet
Instagram: @marbio_uit
A video of the webinar can be watched below.
The BlueBio Cofund project SuReMetS will develop novel marine ingredients from underutilized material from fisheries and microalgae targeting the management of metabolic syndrome (MetS). In order to utilize the marine biomasses in an economically viable manner, it is essential to find efficient ways to process the material to release valuable ingredients. One of the main goals of SuReMetS is therefore to identify enzymes that can be used to process biomass with high efficiency at low temperatures. The positive human health effects of marine ingredients are well established. SuReMetS will target biofunctional ingredients with beneficial effects on biomarkers of MetS. The chronic and complex nature of MetS, makes it challenging to employ a single drug for long-term medication, hence the development of marine nutraceuticals represents a safer and better long-term option. The seminar will present the project outline and the current status of the project that started last June.
Biography:
Jeanette Hammer Andersen is a professor in marine bioprospecting at UiT and head of the natural products platform Marbio at UiT. Marbio has expertise in screening of extract libraries of natural product, including both terrestrial and marine micro- and macroorganisms, and has successfully characterized several novel bioactive compounds. Marbio has obtained funding through the national infrastructure program in Norway (NOR-OPENSCREEN), and is a specialized node in the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) EU-OPENSCREEN. Andersen’s research interest and focus is the discovery of novel bioactive compounds from the marine environment. In this seminar she will present the BlueBio Cofund project SuReMetS which she is coordinating.
Twitter: @hammerjeanet
Instagram: @marbio_uit
A video of the webinar can be watched below.
Biographies
Title 1: Narcisa Bandarra (Researcher) holds habilitation in Ocean Sciences by Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon and PhD in Biotechnology by Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon. She is Head of Aquaculture, Upgrading and Bioprospecting Division from Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere, I.P. IPMA) from 2014, she has twenty-nine years of scientific work in the area of upgrading of fishery and aquaculture products with special focus on biochemical and nutritional value of fishery and aquaculture products, seeking their importance for health and well-being of consumers as well as upgrading the best of these products by the productive sector. The result of her scientific activity is reflected in the publication more than one hundred and seventy scientific articles in international journals, participation in fifty-five projects of national and international R&D and the orientation of seventy-seven undergraduate, master, doctorate and national international postdoctoral students. She is the Portuguese focal point of European Fish Technologists Association (WEFTA) and she was invited as expert to the High Level Panel in Ocean economy (HLPO) https://oceanpanel.org/.
Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7563-9226
Title 2: :Ena Pritišanac (mag.biol.) was born 31.5.1994 in Osijek, Croatia., and graduated in 2017 from the Department of Biology at the University of J. Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek and got the title mag. biol. During college education, she volunteered in the Laboratory for Water Ecology and worked on the popularisation of science at the ZOO and Aquarium where she led and participated in numerous workshops in Osijek. Following enrolment in the graduate study of Biology, she became a leader of the student project “Spreading of invasive species Aedes japonicus (Theobald, 1901) in east Croatia“ for which she won the fundings. Currently, Ena is working as an assistant in the Laboratory of marine ecotoxicology at the Centre for Marine Research in Rovinj and she is in the second year of Interdisciplinary doctoral study of Oceanology at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb, Croatia. Her skills and competencies include laboratory cultivation and analytical assays of phytoplankton, cultivation of phytoplankton in SCADA photobioreactor system, microscopy, culture isolation, spectrophotometry, gravimetry, basic DNA manipulation and extraction including work on nanodrop, electrophoresis. Briefly, she was at the algal training course at Fraunhofer IBG in Stuttgart called Algal Biotechnology techniques and opportunities for the sustainable bioeconomy from 12th to 13th November. 2019. At the domestic Symposium of Ph.D. students in Zagreb, she presented her work in a form of a poster titled: DNA isolation of four marine microalgae which was very well received.
Title 1: Narcisa Bandarra (Researcher) holds habilitation in Ocean Sciences by Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon and PhD in Biotechnology by Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon. She is Head of Aquaculture, Upgrading and Bioprospecting Division from Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere, I.P. IPMA) from 2014, she has twenty-nine years of scientific work in the area of upgrading of fishery and aquaculture products with special focus on biochemical and nutritional value of fishery and aquaculture products, seeking their importance for health and well-being of consumers as well as upgrading the best of these products by the productive sector. The result of her scientific activity is reflected in the publication more than one hundred and seventy scientific articles in international journals, participation in fifty-five projects of national and international R&D and the orientation of seventy-seven undergraduate, master, doctorate and national international postdoctoral students. She is the Portuguese focal point of European Fish Technologists Association (WEFTA) and she was invited as expert to the High Level Panel in Ocean economy (HLPO) https://oceanpanel.org/.
Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7563-9226
Title 2: :Ena Pritišanac (mag.biol.) was born 31.5.1994 in Osijek, Croatia., and graduated in 2017 from the Department of Biology at the University of J. Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek and got the title mag. biol. During college education, she volunteered in the Laboratory for Water Ecology and worked on the popularisation of science at the ZOO and Aquarium where she led and participated in numerous workshops in Osijek. Following enrolment in the graduate study of Biology, she became a leader of the student project “Spreading of invasive species Aedes japonicus (Theobald, 1901) in east Croatia“ for which she won the fundings. Currently, Ena is working as an assistant in the Laboratory of marine ecotoxicology at the Centre for Marine Research in Rovinj and she is in the second year of Interdisciplinary doctoral study of Oceanology at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb, Croatia. Her skills and competencies include laboratory cultivation and analytical assays of phytoplankton, cultivation of phytoplankton in SCADA photobioreactor system, microscopy, culture isolation, spectrophotometry, gravimetry, basic DNA manipulation and extraction including work on nanodrop, electrophoresis. Briefly, she was at the algal training course at Fraunhofer IBG in Stuttgart called Algal Biotechnology techniques and opportunities for the sustainable bioeconomy from 12th to 13th November. 2019. At the domestic Symposium of Ph.D. students in Zagreb, she presented her work in a form of a poster titled: DNA isolation of four marine microalgae which was very well received.
| abstract_narcisa_m_bandarra.docx |
| abstract_and_talk_title_pritišanac.docx |
Biography. Dr Lucie Novoveska is a Senior Researcher in Algal Biotechnology at Scottish Association for Marine Science. Lucie’s research focuses on Blue Biotechnology. She has worked 6 years in the algal industries in the USA and the UK. Her interests range from wastewater bioremediation (removal of nutrients, heavy metals and pharmaceuticals compounds), algal ecology (productivity of algal consortia and polycultures) to production of high value compounds from algae (carotenoids, fatty acids, polysaccharides). Lucie serves as an expert for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (Ocean4Biotech) where she contributes to the work related to Legal aspects, intellectual property rights and ethics. She is also an Associate Editor for journal Applied Phycology.
| esmb_webinar_flyer_lucie_novoveska_final.pdf |
Biography: Prof Simon Cragg is currently exploring mechanisms for digesting woody plant detritus in the marine environment. Marine wood-boring crustaceans and bivalves have an unusual ability to digest the complex of polymers (lignocellulose) that forms wood. Prof Cragg is interested in how these animals achieve the release of sugars from this recalcitrant complex. With collaborators from many disciplines and across the globe Prof Cragg is applying this knowledge to biotechnological transformation of woody substrates; development of novel methods for wood protection; and assessing borer-driven carbon fluxes from mangroves. The interdisciplinary nature of Prof Cragg's work has developed through collaborations with members of the Centre for Enzyme Innovation a the University of Portsmouth (structural biology, transcriptomics, molecular biology), and also with the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York (enzymology, biotechnological implications) and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge (hemicellulose enzymatic breakdown). More on Prof Cragg here.
| esmb_1st_webinar.pdf |