#WomenInScience: BIOPROSP_19

BIOPROSP_19, which will be held in Tromsø in Norway 25-27 February 2019 has a program packed with #WomenInScience talking about biorefineries for marine resources, synthetic biology, marine bioactive molecules and new resources and trends in marine biotech.

BIOPROSP is the international biennial scientific conference on marine biotechnology that aims to translate basic research into industrial applications.

Come along and hear some of the key women working in the marine biotech sector.

• Helena Vieira, executive director, Bluebio Alliance (Portugal) will provide an overview the European Blue bioeconomy sector and illustrate how Portugal is fostering its development by supporting blue bio-based entrepreneurs and scientists
• Anne-Belinda Bjerre, professor at the Danish Technological Institute will give a keynote presentation on the biorefining of brown macroalgae for high-value-added products
• The session on the Norwegian infrastructure on biorefineries will include Catherine Boccadoro, research director at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Ragnhild Dragøy Whitaker, research director at Nofima.
• Fayza Daboussi, research director at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research will give a keynote presentation on genome editing as a promising approach to redesign microalgae metabolism
• Marianne Nymark, research scientist at NTNU will speak on strain optimization of diatoms using CRISPR/Cas9 technology.
• Nadine Ziemert, professor at the University of Tübingen will introduce the use of computational genome mining tools for the discovery of bacterial natural products
• Margareth Øverland, professor at NMBU will provide an overview of the existing possibilities of biorefining and processing of marine biomaterial for food and feed
• There will also be short presentations from Inga Marie Aasen (SINTEF), Marianne Goris (NORCE), Yvonne Piotrowski (UiT), Jenny Johansson Söderberg (UiT), Mónica Estupiñán Romero (AZTI-Tecnalia), Jane Eva Collins (ABS-int & KU Leuven), Rachel Durand (Université Laval), Larissa Buedenbender (GEOMAR)

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