ESF Research Conferences

17:00 - 19:00

Registration at ESF-COST Desk

19:00-
21:00

Welcome drink and dinner

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)

18:30 -
19:30

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

20:00 - 22:00

Dinner

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

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 Wateloo, 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

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
Session Chair: Niall McDonough - Marine Board-ESF

10:20 - 10:30

Introduction to the session

10:30 - 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

08:00

Breakfast and Departure