Why?
18 October – Products unique to algae: new frontiers: Webinar
Algae are photosynthetic micro-organisms with a diverse morphology and a wide range of applications due to their ability to produced versatile metabolites. A few algal species, for example Spirulina, Chlorella , Haematococcus or Dunaliella produce a wide range of secondary metabolites for the development of healthier food products. These compounds such as alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides, terpenoids and phenazines are being used in various sectors such as food, feed aquaculture, biomedicine, veterinary medicine, cosmetic industries and healthcare. In addition to these molecules algae also contain proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, polysaccharides and phycobiliproteins. Generally unbalanced growth conditions such as light regime and nutrient deprivations are the main environmental conditions affecting the content of these compounds. However some of these ingredients occur and are produced also by other organisms; plants, fungi, microbes. Thus we intend in this webinar to discuss mainly molecules or cell constituents which typically are found mainly in algae, such as phycobiliproteins (phycocyanin; phycoerythrin) specific polysaccharides (sulfated ones) and some antiviral compounds (i.e.Griffithsin) or antibiotic one (i.e. chlorellin). We do hope that the know-how discussed and presented in this webinar will increase the demand for these special molecules derived from algae and will further boost their integration into our daily life consumption.
Programme
Chair: Sammy Boussiba
14.00 – 17.45 hrs CET
14.00 Welcome and EABA Presentation, Why this technical webinar? Jean-Paul Cadoret – EABA President
14.10 Why algae? What is unique about algae? Discussion about opportunities. Sammy Boussiba
14.45 Who are you? Presentations 1 minute each. all participants. The objective is that all the participants know who are the others and what they do, so that they understand their questions.
15.30 ABOUT COMPOUNDS UNIQUE TO ALGAE – microalgae
Phycoerytrin purification and in vivo functionalities, Carlos Unamunzaga, Fitoplancton Marino, Spain
Fucoxanthin, Pierre Albina, Microphyt, France
16.00 BREAK
16.15 ABOUT COMPOUNDS UNIQUE TO ALGAE – macroalgae
Fucoidan, Ahmed Zayed, University of Kaiserslautern, Egypt
Agar-Agar and Carragenan, Jacques Mazoyer, Principal Scientist. Cargill, France
Laminarin, Gaurav Rajauria, University College Dublin, Ireland
17.00 COMPOUNDS WITH UNIQUE ACCUMULATION IN ALGAE
What else beyond beta-carotene can we expect from Dunaliela? Uri Pick, Prof. of Biochemistry, Israel
ARA from algae for baby milk supplementation, Inna Khozin-Goldberg, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
17.30 ROUND TABLE AND DEBATE
17.45 Closure and end of the webinar
Marine Drugs is the leading, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the research, development, and production of biologically and therapeutically active compounds from the sea.
Marine Drugs is a Q1 journal in JCR (Web of Sciences) Categories “Chemistry, Medicinal” and “Pharmacology & Pharmacy” with a latest Impact Factor of 6.085, and also a Q1 journal in Scopus and Scimgao with a newest CiteScore of 8.1. With a nearly 20-year publication history, Marine Drugs provides the authors with thorough also efficient peer-review and publication services. As a fully Open Access journal, all publications are visible to global readers immediately upon publication, and the copyright of the papers belongs to the authors.
Eight Sections of Marine Drugs are open for submissions:
- Biomaterials of Marine Origin
- Marine Biotechnology Related to Drug Discovery or Production
- Marine Chemoecology for Drug Discovery
- Marine-Derived Ingredients for Drugs, Cosmeceuticals, and Nutraceuticals
- Marine Pharmacology
- Marine Toxins
- Structural Studies on Marine Natural Products
- Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry of Marine Natural Products
Fees:
€ 195 regular
€ 150 for EABA members
The fees will be increased 50% five days prior to the webinar.
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