RESEARCH CONFERENCES ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference
Marine Biotechnology: Future Challenges Hotel Villa del Mare, Acquafredda di Maratea Italy
20-25 June 2010 Chair: Jan Olafsen, University of Tromsø, NO Vice-Chair: Adrianna Ianora, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, IT Organising Committee: Jan-Bart Calewaert, Marine Board-ESF, BE Amos Tandler, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, IL
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Sunday 20 June 2010 17:00 - 19:00
Registration at ESF-COST Desk
19:00 - 21:00
Welcome drink and dinner
Monday 21 June 2010 08:00 - 09:00
Registration of latecomers
Opening session Session Chair: Jan Olafsen - Conference Chair, University of Tromsø, NO 09:00- 09:10
Jan Olafsen - Conference Chair, University of Tromsø, NO Opening of the Conference - welcome and brief introduction
09:10 - 09:20
Jan-Bart Calewaert – Marine Board-ESF, BE The Marine Board, European Science Foundation and COST: Strategic activities in the frame of Marine Biotechnology research
09:20 - 09:40
Joel Querellou - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), FR Towards a strategy for a European marine biotechnology Research Area: the Marine Board Working Group on Marine Biotechnology Position Paper
09:40 - 10:10
Marcel Jaspars - Marine Biodiscovery Centre, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Grand challenges for current and future marine biotech research in Europe
10:10 - 10:40
Carlo Heip - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), NL The Marine Environment: its potential and characteristics as compared to the terrestrial environment
10:40 - 11:00
Jan Olafsen - Conference Chair, University of Tromsø, NO Session closing: aim and approach of the Conference and the programme
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 11:30 - 12:15
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)
12:15 - 12:45
Angelo Fontana - Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (CNR-ICB), IT The Search of Bioactive Marine Natural Products in the Light of Ecological and Physiological Considerations
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Andrés Francesch - PharmaMar, ES Development of Yondelis as an anticancer drug
14:30 - 15:00
Alan Dobson - University College Cork, IE Omics for bioactives, status and future challenges
15:00 - 15:30
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
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30
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)
18:00 - 19:30
Poster session Chaired by Dr. Casotti Raffaella - Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Napoli, IT
20:00 - 22:00
Dinner
Tuesday 22 June 2010 Marine Biotechnology and Environmental health Session Chair: Adrianna Ianora - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohm, Napoli, IT 09:00 – 09:30
Victor Smetacek - Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, DE Marine Biotechnology Research and Environmental Health
09:30 - 10:00
Oded Beja - Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IL Metagenomics as a tool to unveil new genes and functions in the marine environment
10:00 - 10:30
Allan Cembella - Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, DE Marine toxins: new molecular tools that are being developed to assess the early appearance of red tides and to identify outbreaks of harmful algal blooms
10:30 – 11:00
Raul Bettencourt - University of the Azores, IMAR-Center, PT Sequencing the transcriptome of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel: new possibilities for biotechnological development of biological resources
11:00 - 11:30
Group photo and coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
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)
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch
Marine Biotechnology, Processes and Products Session Chair: Amos Tandler - Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, IL 14:30 - 15:00
René Wijffels - Wageningen University, NL Marine Bioprocess Engineering
15:00 - 15:30
Tadashi Matsunaga - Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, JA Emerging issues and challenges related to bionanotechnology and biomaterials
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
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)
18:00 - 19:00
Evening round table: Environmental approaches and how marine biotechnology can contribute to global challenges Moderator: Victor Smetacek - Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, DE
20:00 - 22:00
Dinner
Wednesday 23 June 2010 Marine Biotechnology, Human Health and Well-being: Marine Food and other healthy products Session Co-chairs: Yonathan Zohar - Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland, US; Edel O. Elvevoll - UiT, Tromsø, NO 09:00 - 09:30
Edel O. Elvevoll - UiT, Tromsø, NO Health aspects of marine food and ingredients
09:30 - 10:00
Yonathan Zohar - Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland, US Aquaculture for the benefit of society: challenges and biotechnology solutions for a sustainable industry
10:00 – 10:30
Øyvind Lie - NIFES, Bergen, Norway Sustainable aquafeeds to maximise the health benefits of farmed fish for consumers challenges and opportunities
10:30 - 11:00
Brian Dixon - University of Waterloo, Ontario, CA Aquaculture vaccine of the future
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
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)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
15:00 - 19:00
Excursion to Maratea
20:00 - 22:00
Dinner
Thursday 24 June 2010 Research Tools, perspectives and forward look Marine Models and Research Toolkits: new developments and advances Session Chair: Manfred Höfle - Helmholtz Center of Infection Research, DE 09:00 – 09:10
Introduction to the session
09:10 - 09:35
Catherine Boyen - CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, FR Can marine models contribute to marine biotechnology development?
09:35 – 10:00
Frank Oliver Glöckner - Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, DE The Future of Marine Ecosystems Biology and Biotechnology: Just a Matter of ‘Omics’ and Bioinformatics?
10:00 – 10:25
Joel Querellou - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), FR How to improve access to the prokaryotes black box through cultures
10:25 – 10:50
Roberto Di Lauro - President of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, IT Research infrastructures for marine biology and biotechnology
10:50 – 11:20
Coffee break
Closing Session: How to support future Marine Biotechnology: Science, Policy and Industry Perspectives and Forward Looking Panel Discussion Chair: Niall McDonough - Marine Board-ESF 11:20 - 11:30
Introduction to the session
11:30 - 11:50
Dermot Hurst - Marine Institute, IE Member State Perspectives: Funding and programmatic lessons: National Programme for Marine Biotechnology research in Ireland
11:50 - 12:10
Laura Giuliano - Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM), MC Regional Seas Perspectives: Marine Biotechnology in the Mediterranean
12:10 - 12:30
Kathleen D’Hondt – Flemish Department for Economy, Science and Innovation, BE Aligning Funding Streams to support Marine Biotechnology in Europe
12:30 - 12:50
Daniel Pardo - CNRS, FR From European marine biosciences Networks to European blue bioindustry Network
12:50 – 13:10
Hillel Milo - AQUAGROFUND, IL Investing in marine biotechnology: a Venture Capital perspective
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch
Forward Look Session 14:30 - 16:00
Forward Look Plenary Discussion: future research developments and support Panel composition: selected chairs and speaker
Moderator: Niall McDonough - Marine Board-ESF, BE and Ilaria Nardello -Conference Rapporteur, Marine Institute, IE with input from the Conference and Session Chairs
16:00 - 16:30
Dermot Hurst - Marine Institute, IE Concluding Remarks on the relevance, main highlights and key messages of the Conference
19:30
Conference Closing Dinner and Poster Award Offering
Friday 25 June 2010
08:00
Breakfast and Departure
