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MARBLES Coordinator Seminar at MEDINA
09 Dec 2024
MARBLES partner MEDINA welcomed MARBLES Coordinator Gilles van Wezel from Leiden University for a seminar on “Exploring Novel Chemical Space in Actinobacteria: from Regulatory Networks to International Collaboration”
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EU research alliance fights back against resistant super-bacteria
25 Nov 2024
Europe’s scientists are working together to boost research into antimicrobial resistance and find new effective treatments.
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Deep-sea corals are home to previously unknown bacteria with extremely small genomes
04 Nov 2024
Two extremely rare bacterial species have been found in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico
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Students visit MEDINA to learn about drug discovery and bioactive molecules from microbial natural products
30 Oct 2024
A group of students from the University of Malaga recently visited MARBLES partner MEDINA to learn about the valuable research being conducted.
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Call for co-chair of GOOS Expert Panel on Biology & Ecosystems
28 Oct 2024
The GOOS Panel on Biology and Ecosystems (the BioEco Panel) provides scientific advice and expertise to GOOS on sustained ocean observations focused on establishing the current and future state of marine life.
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Newly discovered species of bacteria named after MARBLES researcher Lone Gram
25 Oct 2024
The Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures has chosen to name newly discovered species after female microbiologists, among them is Lone Gram from MARBLES partner DTU.
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Policy Brief - Disclosing and Sharing Genetic Resources: Recommendations based on the WIPO Treaty and BBNJ Agreement
18 Oct 2024
MARBLES and BlueRemediomics project partners have collaborated to develop a policy brief to disseminate to policymakers at the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) taking place in Cali, Colombia from 21 October - 1 November 2024.
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EU-OPENSCREEN Autumn Training School 2024
11 Oct 2024
Join MARBLES partner EU-OPENSCREEN (EU-OS) for a packed schedule of talks, all given by prestigious speakers on a diversity of topics related to chemical biology and early drug discovery.
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Looking for new medicines in the ocean
04 Oct 2024
Sea sponges and molluscs are rich sources of unique natural products, researchers are culturing the sponge microbiome for natural product discovery.
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MOOC on Antimicrobial Databases and Genotype Prediction: Data Sharing and Analysis
30 Sept 2024
A free online course to learn to predict antimicrobial resistance (AMR), master data-sharing and enhance your expertise in AMR genomics using cutting-edge databases is open for registration.
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Keeping gills healthy: The microbiome and disease in farmed Atlantic salmon
25 Sept 2024
Gill disease in salmon is a major concern in salmon aquaculture but little is known about the role the gill microbiome plays in providing protection for the salmon from various gill diseases. Researchers have used sequencing to investigate the gill microbiome alongside fish health screening in farmed Atlantic salmon.
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New research reveals how uncultured marine microbes break down hydrocarbons
11 Sept 2024
Previously links between taxonomy and hydrocarbon degradation capabilities were mostly based on cultivation studies, resulting in a knowledge gap on the ability of uncultured marine microbes to degrade hydrocarbons.