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MARBLES at ICNPR 2024: Natural Product Discovery
22 Jul 2024
Together with fellow AIMS Cluster projects InnCoCells and SECRETED, MARBLES organised the Session IV: Prospecting aquatic and terrestrial natural biological resources for biologically active compounds on 15 July 2024 in Krakow at the International Congress on Natural Products Research (ICNPR), the biggest conference in natural products chemistry!
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Special Issue of Marine Drugs - Submissions deadline extended to 30 November 2024
04 Jul 2024
MARBLES researcher Stephen Jackson (UCC) is the Guest Editor for the Special Issue 'Exploiting Marine 'Omics' Technologies for the Biodiscovery of Marine Natural Products'.
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MARBLES presented at Functional Metagenomics 2024 in South Africa
25 Jun 2024
MARBLES partner SINTEF presented the project at the conference in Kruger National Park, South Africa. The conference included a wide range of ‘omics’ technologies used in microbiome studies, including the fields of metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, metaviromics, metabolomics, bioinformatics and 3-D structural mining
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Upper surface of coastal waters can accumulate bacteria and antibiotics
14 Jun 2024
In new research presented at ASM Microbe 2024, scientists find antibiotics in the uppermost water surface can significantly affect the number of bacteria present and contribute to the adaptation of marine bacteria against widely used antibiotics
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MARBLES part of AIMS Cluster Session IV at ICNPR 2024: Natural Product Discovery
07 Jun 2024
Session IV (Prospecting aquatic and terrestrial natural biological resources for biologically active compounds) taking place on 15 July 2024 in Krakow at the International Congress On Natural Products Research (ICNPR), the biggest conference in natural products chemistry!
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How can a marine sponge cure us?
28 May 2024
MARBLES researcher Niels van der Windt from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, recently explained how marine sponges can be used to cure us during a Spotlight Session in the Museum
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Drug resistance from overuse of antibiotics for common infections could kill millions
13 May 2024
According to the UK’s special envoy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Prof Dame Sally Davies, the COVID-19 pandemic will “look minor” compared with what humanity faces with rise of drug-resistant superbugs.
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MARBLES partner SINTEF at Functional Metagenomics 2024 in South Africa
30 Apr 2024
The conference is taking place from 2-5 June 2024 in Kruger National Park, South Africa encompasses a wide range of ‘omics’ technologies used in microbiome studies, including the fields of metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, metaviromics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, 3-D structural mining and others.
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Computational Mass Spectrometry Workshop in Aberdeen
25 Apr 2024
MARBLES partner Marine Biodiscovery Centre (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, UNIABDN) is organising an interactive workshop on Computational Mass Spectrometry in June 2024.
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Shipworms, sponges and snail venoms: The search for marine medicine
15 Apr 2024
Podcast episode from Tiny Matters: The small science of big things! In this episode they are tackling marine natural products, compounds like proteins, fats and other molecules that marine species produce and that us humans are hoping to utilise to treat the illnesses that currently affect us.
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Study finds microbes hitchhike on microplastics in freshwater to reach the ocean
10 Apr 2024
Microplastics have the potential to modify aquatic microbial communities and distribute microbes including pathogens, posing a potential risk to aquatic life and human health.
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Algae4IBD Summer School: Discovering novel bioactive compounds in algae
28 Mar 2024
Fellow AIMS Cluster project, Algae4IBD is organising a two week interdisciplinary summer school for early career researchers and junior industry professionals covering how to discover novel bioactive compounds in algae and develop functional food and pharmaceuticals.