BlueRemediomics

📢 🎄 #BlueRemediomics 2024 recap! 2024 was a big year for the project. Coming up to Christmas, it's time to reflect on some of our greatest achievements and fun events throughout the year: ⛵ Our partners from EMBL and Fondation Tara Océan successfully completed the 18-month-long #TREC expedition in October this year, gathering 23,000 marine samples and 70,000 terrestrial samples across the entire European Coastline. For #BlueRemediomics, this provides an exciting opportunity to study human impact on coastal ecosystems in unprecedented detail. 🧬 The European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI and University of Aberdeen spearheaded conversations on plastic-eating bacteria to boost bioremediation (Nature Magazine Biotechnology) and rules for digital sequence information benefit-sharing across United Nations frameworks (Nature Magazine Communications). 👏 BlueRemediomics partners were busy organising and participating in several workshops this year, the latest one took place NORCE Norwegian Research Centre in Bergen on "doing no significant harm in Norwegian Aquaculture" in collab with University of Aberdeen. 🎙️ We launched the Blue Biome Boffins campaign earlier this year, interviewing different participants in the BlueRemediomics project, from Early Career Scientists to Senior Researchers, to learn more about their role and valuable work in making this project a success. Watch the latest video with Pietro Tedesco from Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn here: https://lnkd.in/dKfvSpWR The BlueRemediomics project feeds into the EDITO - European Digital Twin Ocean together with many other projects that we are in collaboration with, such as MARBLES EU Project, AtlantECO Project, Bluetools and BIOcean5D. Data products from the project are being made publicly available in #MGnify, and flow through established routes to the well-known open-access biodiversity platforms #OBIS and #GBIF. 💙 PS: we are now also on Bluesky - follow us @https://lnkd.in/eT9CzH8s May 2025 be equally as exciting and innovative! Wishing everyone a happy Christmas time 🎄

⛵ As part of the #TREC expedition, our partners from Fondation Tara Océan in collaboration with BIOcean5D facilitated an artist-in-residence program that aimed to harness the power of #art as a form of communication to develop citizen engagement. Now that the expedition has ended, it is time to highlight the outcomes and artistic achievements of the 8 artists on board #Tara, who conveyed the value of marine biodiversity and the fundamental importance of ocean conservation in different ways. 🎨Read more about the artists and their work on the BIOcean5D website here: https://lnkd.in/eEdpK48m Experience the artwork created by more than 40 Tara residency artists over the last 20 years first hand at 'La Grande Expédition' exhibition at CENTQUATRE-PARIS until the 2nd of 2025! 👉 More info on the exhibition here: https://lnkd.in/ecQ5ppBb

📢 🌊 For our "Blue Biome Boffins" Campaign, we sat down with Pietro Tedesco, a researcher with Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn who focuses on identifying #compounds and #enzymes with high potential for pharmaceutical or cosmeceutical applications. 🔬 In this interview, we discussed why biotechnology can be referred to as “biology out of context” and the creativity involved in biotechnology to find different and novel functionalities for already existing things. With the “Blue Biome Boffins” Campaign, we interview different participants in the #BlueRemediomics project, from Early Career Scientists to Senior Researchers, to learn more about their role and valuable work in making this project a success. 📹 Watch the video with Pietro below! 👉 Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/dKfvSpWR

📢 ⛵ NEW Press Kit available! On October 5th 2024, the Fondation Tara Océan schooner returned to its home port of Lorient, France, after 18 months of research as part of the #TREC expedition. 🌊 Covering the entire length of the European Coastline, the expedition gathered unprecedented data on marine microbial diversity, carbon sequestration processes, and how these ecosystems are being affected by human activity and environmental changes. Analysis of the data is already underway by many different researchers, groups and projects, including EMBL, Fondation Tara Océan, BlueRemediomics & BIOcean5D. In a combined effort, Fondation Tara Océan and EMBL have now published an in-depth press-kit, highlighting the expedition’s purpose, some initial findings and a future outlook. Access the press kit below for more information! 👇 More info here: https://lnkd.in/enJUU6Px

🌊For science to have an impact, it needs to be communicated. Our partners from ERINN Innovation spent the past 2 days at the #CommOCEAN conference in Malaga, Spain, highlighting some insights & experiences from the BlueRemediomics communication and outreach activities linked to the #TREC expedition organised by Fondation Tara Océan & EMBL. An important role in the BlueRemediomics project is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the ocean #microbiome, its key ecosystem functions, and its potential for novel sustainable products & processes. Building these bridges between science and the public outside the “science bubble” plays an integral role in achieving impact, especially when it comes to concepts that are hard to visualize & grasp such as the ocean microbiome. 🧬 #CommOCEAN2024 provided a unique platform to share experiences and learn about new, unique ways of communicating science. Thanks to the European Marine Board IVZW, Instituto Español de Oceanografía & CSIC for organising! 

🌊 The upcoming #CommOCEAN conference in Malaga at the Instituto Español de Oceanografía is dedicated to fostering effective communication in marine science, especially when it comes to bridging the gap between scientific research and public understanding. As part of this, our project partners from ERINN Innovation will highlight the Communication & Outreach efforts undertaken in the #BlueRemediomics project together with partners from Fondation Tara Océan and linked to the large-scale "TRaversing European Coastlines (#TREC)" sampling expedition. 📅 26-27 November 2024, Malaga, Spain Learn more about the conference programme here: https://lnkd.in/eRm449s7

🐟 📢 Some key insights from our recent workshop on "doing no significant harm" in Norwegian Aquaculture in Bergen! The workshop, held on October 15, 2024 and organised by our partners from NORCE Norwegian Research Centre in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen, gathered 46 stakeholders from local scientists, policymakers, students, industry, funders and not-for-profit organisations to explore sustainable practices under the "do no significant harm principle" while aiming for 50% of animal protein from farmed fish by 2050! Insights: - Need for considering circularity: Incl. waste management ♻️ - Novel feed ingredients: necessary to ensure the growth of the aquaculture 🐟   - Emphasizing quality over production scale - Public awareness: Improving consumer and community awareness around ethical practices in aquaculture is essential 👏 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eYgv7NTb

Climate change is accelerating the decline of global biodiversity, leading to the loss of species and increased prevalence of diseases. Researchers worldwide are trying to find solutions for these challenges but to do this, they need vast amounts of data and robust analysis tools. At EMBL-EBI we are supporting global biodiversity research by: 🌱 Making biological data openly available to the scientific community 🌐 Collaborating on global biodiversity initiatives such as the Earth BioGenome Project, Tara Ocean expeditions, BlueRemediomics and more  👩💻 Providing bioinformatics training and resources to support researchers worldwide Find out more about our ongoing projects, meet our experts, and access bioinformatics training on our new dedicated biodiversity landing page 👇 https://lnkd.in/e3_VkV4H #biodiversity #climate #bioinformatics 

📢 🧬 After 23 months of research, our BlueRemediomics project consortium came together virtually for our 4th consortium meeting today! Together, we discussed some of the project's main achievements and plans for the upcoming months. Thanks to all partners for the excellent work and ongoing efforts in making this project a success! In collaboration with EMBL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ifremer, EMBRC - European Marine Biological Resource Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, IOCB Prague - Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Leitat Technological Center, Fondation Tara Océan, University of the Western Cape, 3BIO, ERINN Innovation, ETH Zürich, UCL, University of Cambridge, University of Aberdeen Funded by the European Union (Horizon Europe) | EU Science, Research and Innovation

📢 In time for the UN Biodiversity COP 16 in Cali, Colombia next week, BlueRemediomics partners from the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with 3BIO, have published a policy brief on “Disclosing and Sharing Genetic Resources: Recommendations based on the WIPO Treaty and BBNJ Agreement”. The conference will among other tasks focus on access to genetic resources and the finalisation of a mechanism for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information. Against this backdrop, the new policy brief summarises the contexts of international negotiation developments regarding marine genetic resources, identifies key outcomes, and makes suggestions to EU and state policymakers, aiming to inform future choices regarding access and benefit sharing (ABS), intellectual property (IP), Digital Sequence Information (DSI) and their intersections. The policy brief was developed in the framework of EU-funded projects BlueRemediomics and MARBLES EU Project. 👉 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/dKmSKjGh