This meeting, coinciding with the opening of the new £1.6M Marine Biodiscovery Centre, will address the potential for new products and processes from the marine environment, with a particular emphasis on the technical challenges and realising successful outcomes. This will cover novel pharmaceuticals and high value chemicals such as biomaterials, nutraceuticals and personal care products as well as novel enzymes with unique activities. Academic and industrial aspects will be presented and there will be a showcase for Scottish companies and facilities. The meeting will run from lunchtime Tue 15 June to lunchtime Wed 16 June to allow for travel.

Topics:

• Accessing and assessing marine biodiversity
• Molecular methods to find and express secondary metabolites and enzymes.
• Extraction and isolation of small molecules & modern methods for structural characterisation
• Marine bioinorganic chemistry
• Screening marine natural products
• Applications in the nutraceuticals and personal care market.
• Applications in the high value markets for instance pharmaceuticals and enzymes.
• Taking marine pharmaceuticals to the market
• Marine biomaterials

Speakers confirmed:

Dan Morse, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (Plenary)
Phil Crews, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Frithjof Küpper, Scottish Association of Marine Science, UK
Marc Diederich, Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire du Cancer, Luxembourg
Peter Sadler, University of Warwick, UK
Andrew Mearns-Spragg, Aquapharm Biodiscovery, UK
Charlie Bavington, Glycomar, UK
Speaker TBA, Martek, USA
Jan Buch Andersen, Biotec Marine Biochemicals, Norway

Sponsors:

The Royal Society of Chemistry, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, Thermo, Varian Inc., Syngenta, Aquapharm Biodiscovery, Glycomar

Cost for meeting: £50 (£25 for students)

Reaching Aberdeen:

Aberdeen is well connected by air to many UK and several international airports (Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo) and by mainline rail and road. We will endeavour to assist you in finding local accommodation.

Further information:

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Professor Marcel Jaspars

Marine Biodiscovery Centre

Department of Chemistry

University of Aberdeen

Old Aberdeen, AB24 3UE

Scotland, UK

Phone: +44 1224 272 895

Fax: +44 1224 272 921

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