Grand Challenges in Marine Biotechnology

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2. The Promise of the Blue Biotechnology

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   2. The Marine Ecosystem as a Source of Antibiotics

      • Yuly López, Virginio Cepas, Sara M. Soto

      Pages 3-48

   3. Seaweeds: Valuable Ingredients for the Pharmaceutical Industries

      • Evi Amelia Siahaan, Ratih Pangestuti, Se-Kwon Kim

      Pages 49-95

   4. Anti-infective Compounds from Marine Organisms

      • Elena Ancheeva, Mona El-Neketi, Georgios Daletos, Weaam Ebrahim, Weiguo Song, Wenhan Lin et al.

      Pages 97-155

   5. The Marine-Derived Filamentous Fungi in Biotechnology

      • Rosario Nicoletti, Anna Andolfi

      Pages 157-189

   6. Aplysinopsins as Promising Marine Natural Product Drug Leads: Recent Developments

      • Kevin Lewellyn, Jordan K. Zjawiony

      Pages 191-215

   7. Potential of Hydrogen Fermentative Pathways in Marine Thermophilic Bacteria: Dark Fermentation and Capnophilic Lactic Fermentation in Thermotoga and Pseudothermotoga Species

      • Laura Dipasquale, Nirakar Pradhan, Giuliana d’Ippolito, Angelo Fontana

      Pages 217-235

   8. Anaerobic Digestion and Gasification of Seaweed

      • John J. Milledge, Patricia J. Harvey

      Pages 237-258

3. The Economic Potential of Marine Biotechnology

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   2. The Global Market for Marine Biotechnology: The Underwater World of Marine Biotech Firms

      • Gaia Raffaella Greco, Marco Cinquegrani

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   3. How to Succeed in Marketing Marine Natural Products for Nutraceutical, Pharmaceutical and Cosmeceutical Markets

      • Ricardo Calado, Miguel Costa Leal, Helena Gaspar, Susana Santos, António Marques, Maria Leonor Nunes et al.

      Pages 317-403

   4. The European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster: An Alliance of European Research Infrastructures to Promote the Blue Bioeconomy

      • Mery Piña, Pierre Colas, Ibon Cancio, Annie Audic, Lucas Bosser, Adelino Canario et al.

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4. Supporting the Development of Marine Biotechnology

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   2. Grand Challenges in Marine Biotechnology: Overview of Recent EU-Funded Projects

      • Chiara Lauritano, Adrianna Ianora

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   3. SeaBioTech: From Seabed to Test-Bed: Harvesting the Potential of Marine Biodiversity for Industrial Biotechnology

      • RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel, Arnthor Ævarsson, Paraskevi Polymenakou, Ute Hentschel, Daniele Carettoni, John Day et al.

      Pages 451-504

   4. BluePharmTrain: Biology and Biotechnology of Marine Sponges

      • Georg Steinert, Carla Huete Stauffer, Nele Aas-Valleriani, Erik Borchert, Agneya Bhushan, Alexandra Campbell et al.

      Pages 505-553

   5. ChiBio: An Integrated Bio-refinery for Processing Chitin-Rich Bio-waste to Specialty Chemicals

      • Volker Sieber, Michael Hofer, Wolfram M. Brück, Daniel Garbe, Thomas Brück, Catherine A. Lynch

      Pages 555-578

   6. Utilisation of Marine Genetic Resources (GRs): The Access and Benefit-Sharing Legal Framework

      • Arianna Broggiato, Laura E. Lallier, Aysegül Sirakaya, Thomas Vanagt

      Pages 579-599

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This book serves as essential reading for research scientists and biotechnologists from both academia and industry working in marine biotechnology and related disciplines. The book discusses recent advances and challenges in terms of science, technology, innovation, and policy for the development of the field; and how marine biotechnology may provide new solutions to some of the grand challenges faced by our society. Written in an accessible language, the book is also recommended as a reference text for decision-makers in government and non-governmental organizations in their efforts to foster the development of a global blue economy.

 With less than 5 % of the vast and rich marine environment explored, our seas and oceans represent a virtually unexplored resource for the discovery of novel product, processes, and development of bio-inspired synthetic drugs with biotechnological potential. As such, the marine environment has been considered Earth's last frontier of exploration. Recent advances in molecular techniques are providing the necessary tools to access on a larger scale the still-untapped ocean resources and, consequently, unveil the promise of the blue biotechnology. Governments are recognizing the potential of marine biotechnology to provide solutions to some of the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century such as sustainable energy and food sources, identification of novel drugs for improved health treatments, and providing new industrial materials and processes. For this reason, advances in marine biotechnology may foster the much-needed source of innovation and economic growth in many countries, and pave the way towards the development of a global blue economy, i.e. a new economic model based on the sustainable exploration of our ocean ecosystems.

• blue biotechnology
• bioactive molecules
• sustainable energy source
• marine microorganisms
• ecological monitoring

• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

  Pabulo H. Rampelotto

• Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy

  Antonio Trincone

Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Book Series “Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology”. He is also Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Senior Editor, Guest Editor and member of the editorial board of several scientific journals on the field of Life Sciences and Biotechnology. Furthermore, Pabulo is member of four Scientific Advisory Boards of Lifeboat Foundation, alongside several Nobel Laureates and other distinguished scientists, philosophers, educators, engineers and economists. Most of his recent work has been dedicated to the editorial process of several scientific journals in life science and biotechnology, as well as on the organization of special issues and books in his fields of expertise. In his special issues and books, some of the most distinguished team leaders in the field have published their work, ideas and findings, including Nobel Laureates and several of the highly cited scientists according to the ISI Institute. 

 

Antonio Trincone is author of more than 140 scientific publications (articles, reviews, book contributions) appeared in international leading scientific journals. Currently he is a Senior Researcher working since 1983 in Naples at the Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare belonging to Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy. He has been Professor of Organic Chemistry in charge for several years at University of Salerno, Italy. Antonio has been the editor of different scientific books and special issues dedicated to marine biotechnology. He is Specialty Chief Editor of Marine Biotechnology (Frontiers in Marine Science), editing different research topics for this journal.

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