Marine Institute to host international seaweed research symposium

The aim is to gain an insight into international seaweed research involving bioactive discovery and to give Irish researchers an opportunity to share their experience and research with colleagues in other institutions and with the seaweed industry, and to give a briefing on the recently launched national industry-led research initiative “Bioactive Compounds from Seaweed” by Enterprise Ireland.   All Irish research groups and individual researchers with a background in seaweed and/or sciences that support the identification, analysis, extraction and processing of bioactive and other compounds from natural products are invited to make a short presentation which outlines their experience and current research.    International speakers have also been invited to present on key topics relating to research and industry. 

The symposium is open to all researchers working on seaweed, marine bioprospecting, natural products chemistry, biochemistry, process engineering and in related areas; to the seaweed industry and national agencies.