Work Packages

MARBLES has nine Work Packages (WPs) with research activities on: biodiversity mining (WP1), disease suppressive microbes and consortia (WP2), omics (WP3), chemical diversity (WP4), screening and validation (WP5). WP6 will cover societal and valorisation aspects. WP7 is dissemination, communication, knowledge transfer and stakeholder engagement while WP8 is dedicated to the project management. Finally, WP9 covers the project’s ethics requirements.

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WP 1

Novel Bio Resources and Improved Approaches to Biodiversity Mining

WP1 will map the taxonomic and functional diversity of the marine microbiomes of microalgae, deep sea sponges and Atlantic salmon as well as profiling the environmental properties of these marine habitats

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WP 2

Engineering and Phenotypic Profiling of Marine Microbiomes and Bioactive Compounds

WP2 will explore the potential of marine microbiomes (WP1), microbial strains and consortia (synthetic microbial communities) to improve the health and growth of aquaculture-relevant organisms, such as marine fish larvae and molluscs

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WP 3

“Omics-guided” Awakening of Cryptic BGCs

In WP3, host-microbe and microbial interactions will be studied in detail for the selected systems described in WP1 and WP2

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WP 4

Small Molecules-Generation of Chemical Diversity

WP4 focuses on compound characterisation and compound modification. Compounds will be isolated and the chemical structures of novel compounds will be elucidated.

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WP 5

Screening and Validation

WP5 will play a central role contributing to identifying the best candidate compounds that can respond to the proposed target product profiles

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WP 6

Sustainability, Society and Valorisation

WP6 will generate the knowledge that will support WP7 to bridge the gap between MARBLES and the different stakeholders: industry, policy and society.

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WP 7

Dissemination, Communication, IP Protection, Knowledge Management & Transfer and Stakeholder Engagement

WP7 will elaborate and implement an effective dissemination and exploitation strategy.

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WP 8

Project Management

WP8 ensures the overall management of the MARBLES project

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WP 9

Ethics Requirements

WP9 sets out the 'ethics requirements' that the project must comply with

Impact on aquaculture, agriculture and the environment

The results of MARBLES are expected to improve the use of marine microbes as a sustainable resource for drug discovery and bioprotectants for aquaculture and agricultural crop diseases.

Results
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