New Trends in Marine Biodiscovery
Seminar MNF-Bioc-274
Summer Semester 2023
Mondays 17:00-18:30
Interested? Registration is compulsory.
Workload: 2 ECTS, the examination will be based on an oral presentation (100%).
For registrations: Send e-mail to dtasdemir@geomar.de latest
by April 14th 2023
Venue: Düsternbrooker Weg 20,
Large Conference Room (LCR)
Start date: 17.4.2023, 17:00
Inhalt
Oceans cover over 70% of the earth surface and contain the worlds largest biological diversity. Marine organisms, such seaweeds, invertebrates and their microbiome, are prolific producer of vast variety of natural products with novel chemical structures. These molecules are produced for facilitating the adaptation of the organism in its eco-system or as chemical weapons against their predators. Such molecules that are designed for function by Nature have very high potential for possessing pharmacological or otherwise useful effects for human or animal diseases or may play a role in their welfare. Discovery and development of new medicines (as well as functional ingredients for food, cosmetics or other areas) represents one of the most promising and highly visible outcomes of marine biotechnology research. Marine biodiscovery is a very multidisciplinary discipline and include strong components of natural product-, analytical- and organic chemistry, metabolomics, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, and driven by the challenges to overcome issues of access, supply, or difficult organic chemistry questions.
In this seminar, we will give oral presentations on background, potential and methodology in marine natural product chemistry and biotechnology in combination with literature research and presentations given by the participating students.
The course is given by Prof. Dr. Deniz Tasdemir, her coworkers at RU Marine Natural Products Chemistry and prominent external speakers.