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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.
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MARBLES Annual Meeting 2024 in Denmark
04 Sept 2024
The third annual MARBLES meeting took place from 28-29 August 2024 in beautiful Rungsted facilitated by our partner the Technological University of Denmark (DTU).
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Improving the odds: Artificial intelligence (AI) and the great plate count anomaly
30 Aug 2024
MARBLES partner Wageningen University has published an opinion paper on how artificial intelligence (AI) could help to isolate currently unculturable bacteria.
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Policy Brief – Next Steps for Genetic Resources and Innovation? The WIPO Treaty and BBNJ Agreement Interface
12 Aug 2024
At the second meeting of the “Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources” (WGDSI-2) which is taking place this week, 12 -16 August 2024 in Montreal, Canada, MARBLES and BlueRemediomics partner University of Aberdeen (UNIABDN) will be sharing their latest policy brief draft.
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The DSI Scientific Network
01 Aug 2024
The DSI Scientific Network is a global network of researchers, including MARBLES partner University of Aberdeen (UNIABDN), that are speaking out for sensible policies on Digital Sequence Information (DSI).
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Pharmaceuticals from marine sources: past, present and future
30 Jul 2024
A review of the factors that make marine natural products such a desirable target for drug discovery in the future, including the field's history, clinical trial accomplishments, and the challenges of achieving approval.
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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!