Natural Products Scotland Conference - 25 and 26 September 2013

Pre-conference workshops

Workshop 2 - MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY Streaming Marine Biotechnology through into business - overcoming bottlenecks and generating innovation
14:15	Registration
14:45	Welcome from Session Chair: Support and exploitation landscape and trends for Marine Biotechnology Meredith Lloyd-Evans, Managing Director, BioBridge Ltd
15:00	Title tbc Andrew Mearns Spragg, Chief Technology Officer & Founder, Aquapharm, PharmaSea Project
15:15	The role of IT and genomics innovation for industrial use of marine bioresources Renzo Kottman, Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, MicroB3 Project
15:30	Merging natural and synthetic biodiversity for viable manufacturing Dr Ian Fotheringham, President, Ingenza, SeaBioTech Project
15:45	Refreshment break
16:15	BlueGenics: Exploiting marine genomics for an innovative and sustainable European blue biotechnology industry Bruno Ferreira, CEO, Biotrend, BlueGenics Project
16:30	Title tbc Mike Cowling, Chief Scientist, The Crown Estate
16:45	Global and regional regimes for access to marine genetic resources and related benefit-sharing Thomas Greiber, Senior Legal Officer, International Union for Conservation of Nature
17:00	Q&A: Speaker Panel