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BBNJ experts gather in Edinburgh for High Seas Treaty Symposium
09 Oct 2023
The High Seas Treaty: From negotiation to implementation. A two-day symposium attended by MARBLES partners was held in Edinburgh in October 2023 to critically evaluate the potential challenges and opportunities for the implementation of the BBNJ Agreement or “High Seas Treaty”.
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Copper from industrial pollution increases antibiotic resistance in forest floor soil bacteria
17 Sept 2023
According to a recent study, industrial heavy metal pollution in a Swedish forest causes soil microbial communities to become resistant to both metals and tetracycline antibiotics.
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MARBLES at Joint MaNaPro-ECMNP 2023 in Granada
12 Sept 2023
MARBLES was well represented at the Joint XIII European Congress on Marine Natural Products and XVII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products (MaNaPro-ECMNP) from 3-8 September 2023 in Granada, Spain.
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MARBLES Annual Meeting 2023 in Granada
07 Sept 2023
The second annual MARBLES meeting took place from 1-2 September 2023 at our partner Fundación MEDINA and was followed by the MaNaPro/ECMNP Conference from 3-8 September 2023 in Granada, Spain!
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Microbes - The invisible network protecting the whale shark
23 Aug 2023
The whale shark is the largest species of fish in the world, often reaching more than 12 metres in length! However, the challenges that whale sharks face go far beyond what is visible to the naked eye.
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MARBLES E-Newsletter Issue 4 - Out now!
31 Jul 2023
All the latest news, events and highlights from the project, including an update on our contributions to the High Seas Treaty negotiations, announcement of a special issue of Marine Drugs and our research being presented at the upcoming European Conference on Marine Natural Products in September.
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Marine microbes could protect grapevines from climate change
28 Jul 2023
Grapes and therefore the wine industry are threatened by extreme weather events like heatwaves caused by climate change but researchers at the University of Lisbon are investigating the possible solutions of spraying the vines with marine microbes that could help them adapt.
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Marine natural product projects session at European MaNaPro Conference 2023
03 Jul 2023
A two-hour session dedicated to EU-funded marine natural product related projects will take place on Tuesday 5 September at the XIII European Conference on Marine Natural Products (MaNaPro) and XVII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products Joint Meeting in Granada, Spain.
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Decoding the Microbial World: The Confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Metagenomics
21 Jun 2023
In the past decade, we have seen a substantial leap forward in the sphere of microbial sciences. Our ability to understand the enigmatic microbial world has been vastly amplified by advancements in metagenomic data analysis.
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Compound found in octopus ink could lead to new cancer treatments
19 Jun 2023
A recent study by Hernández-Zazueta et al. aimed to chemically synthesise and evaluate the anti-proliferative (suppress cell growth) and anti-inflammatory potential of ozopromide (OPC), a novel compound recently isolated from the ink of the Common Octopus Octopus vulgaris.
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Submissions Now Open for Special Issue of Marine Drugs
12 Jun 2023
MARBLES researcher Stephen Jackson (UCC) will be Guest Editor for the Special Issue 'Exploiting Marine 'Omics' Technologies for the Biodiscovery of Marine Natural Products'.
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The diversity of bacteria on Earth may be vastly underestimated
04 Jun 2023
A two-year expedition to coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean detected half a million types of microbes, the latest estimate in the quest to quantify the planet's microbiome.