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BALTIC BLUE BIOTECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE

The Baltic Blue Biotechnology Alliancematches its users to the services,facilities and experts they need totake their product idea to the nextlevel

Blue biotechnology is a sector that has greatpotential as Europe moves towards a biobasedeconomy. It can be tapped for products such asnew drugs, biofuels, food and supplements. Italso promises to play a key role in thedevelopment of ecosystem services related toclean water. This potential is impressive but – todate – remains largely untapped, realisation isstill in its infancy.

The "Baltic Blue Biotechnology Alliance" projectis implemented within the EU INTERREGframework for the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). Theobjective of the project is to create acomprehensive offer of the BSR in the area ofblue biotechnology and to increase the numberof blue biotechnology enterprises.

FROM SCIENCE TO BUSINESS

One great difficulty in getting blue biotechproducts market ready is that not each andevery BSR country, considered by itself, canprovide all the resources and expertisenecessary to complete the journey from idea tofinished product. The Baltic Blue BiotechnologyAlliance aims to bridge this gap by developingand implementing optimal transnationalproduct development chains. These will enableefficient use of and comprehensive access tothe whole variety of facilities, (bio-)resourcesand expertises available within the region andbeyond, therefore pooling national capabilities.

The international conference represents a stepforward in the implementation of the BLUEGROWTH strategy of the European Union.Newest results in basic and applied science andsuccessful results of economic implementationwill be showcased.

Conference Topics

- Industrial application of marine organisms- Marine biomass production- Bioactive compounds- Marine alliances- Business development and legal aspects

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

CONFERENCE OPENING

14:00 – 17:30Arrival, mounting of postersWorkshops for the mentors

17:30 – 18:00Welcome receptionPoster session 1

EVENING LECTURE

18:00 – 19:00Donnie LygonisRoyal Institute of Technology in Stockholm“From great ideas to successful innovation in 45minutes” (an innovation crash course for theambitious)

Thursday, August 23, 2018

WELCOME ADDRESSES

09:00 – 09:15Michael LüdtkeHead of Communication, BioCon Valley® GmbHDeniz TasdemirGEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean ResearchAngela Schultz-ZehdenSUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIG

SESSION 1: The ALLIANCE and Blue Biotechnologyin the Baltic Sea Region

Chair: Deniz Tasdemir

09:20 – 09:40Angela Schultz-ZehdenSUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIGSUBMARINER and the ALLIANCE - effective ways tosupport the Blue Bioeconomy in the Baltic SeaRegion

09:40 – 10:00Fredrik GröndahlRoyal Institute of Technology in StockholmEcological and economical sustainability of largeseaweed cultitvation on the Swedish west coast

10:00 – 10:20Lars JørgensenDanish Technological InstituteBlue biomasses as future protein sources?

10:20 – 10:25Anne-Mari LuhtanenSYKE Finnish Environment InstituteA quick note about the information that will begathered during this conference

10:25 - 10:35 Joint discussion

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10:35 - 11:05 Coffee break & matchmaking

Thursday, August 23, 2018 (continued)

SESSION 2: Industrial application of marineorganisms

Chair: Rainer Cramm

11:05 – 11:25Jörg UllmannRoquette Klötze GmbH & Co. KGIndustrial microalgae production since year 2000:Potential and limitations

11:25 – 11:45Levent PikeroceanBASIS GmbHFrom science to the shelves - looking back to 20years of Marine Biotechnology, productdevelopment and marketing

11:45 – 11:50Janno JoosepFurcella OÜBerrichi - Natural cosmetics with componentsfrom red algae

11:50 – 12:00 Joint discussion

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break(Greifswald restaurants, on participant's own initiative)

Thursday, August 23, 2018 (continued)

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SESSION 3: Bioactive moleculesChair: Thomas Schweder

13:00 - 13:25Alexa Karina KlettnerUniversity Medical Center KielFucoidan in health and well-being

13:25 - 13:50Kaarina SivonenUniversity of HelsinkiGenome mining and bioactivity assays as tools todiscover cyanobacterial natural products

13:50 - 14:15Gurvan MichelStation Biologique de RoscoffDiscovery of enzymes from marine flavobacteriafor the valorization of macroalgae

14:15 - 14:40Deniz TasdemirGEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean ResearchMarine microbes in biodiscovery: challenges andopportunities

14:40 - 14:50Gerold LukowskiInstitute of Marine BiotechnologyCollagen wound dressing against the colonizationof multi-resistant pathogens on a base ofMaresome© from a micro algae of the Baltic Sea

Thursday, August 23, 2018 (continued)

14:50 - 15:20 Coffee break & Matchmaking

SESSION 4: Cultivation and exploitation of marinebiomass

Chair: Anne-Mari Luhtanen

15:20 – 15:45Rüdiger SchulzUniversity of KielNear-shore cultivation of marine micro- andmacroalgae in the Kiel fjord for biotechnologicalapplications

15:45 – 16:10Hendrik SchubertUniversity of RostockBeach wrack - burden or chance?

16:10 – 16:35Christian SchulzeUniversity of GreifswaldMicroalgae for biofuels - revolution or reverie?

16:35 – 16:45Colin InghamHoekmine BVBuilding colour

16:45 – 16:55Valmar KasukVetik OÜHidden treasures of a red seaweed

Thursday, August 23, 2018 (continued)

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16:55 - 17:25 Coffee break & matchmaking

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SESSION 5: Business development and legalaspects

Chair: Efthalia Arvaniti

17:25 – 17.45Sven ParkelTartu Biotechnology ParkTechnology evaluation

17:45 – 18.15Thomas GreiberGerman Federal Agency for Nature ConservationThe Nagoya Protocol and its implementation inthe EU - what does it mean for biodiscovery?

18:15 – 18.35Ben TolleyEuropean patent attorneyManaging your intellectual property

18:35 – 18:45 Joint discussion

18:45 – 19:20 Break, snacks, poster session 2

Joint walk to the restaurant Theatercafé Greifswald(10 min)

19:30 – 22:00 Conference dinner

Thursday, August 23, 2018 (continued)

Friday, August 24, 2018

SESSION 6: Marine alliances IChair: Hilary Jane Lewis Karlson

09:00 – 09:20Bjørn Tore ErdalNordic Council of MinistersNordic cooperation for blue growth

09:20 – 09:40Ilaria NardelloEMBRC-ERIC HeadquartersEMBRC-ERIC: Widening alliances for greatersustainability and societal impact

09:40 – 10:00Joana Moreira-SilvaBLUEBIO ALLIANCEBLUEBIO ALLIANCE - the Portuguese network formarine bioresources and blue biotechnology

10:00 – 10:10 Joint discussion

SESSION 7: Marine alliances IIChair: Angela Schultz-Zehden

10:40 – 10:50Anne-Mari LuhtanenSYKE Finnish Environment InstituteFuture challenges of blue biotechnology in theBaltic Sea Region

10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break & Matchmaking

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11.10 – 11.50 Marine alliances panel discussion

11:50 – 12:00 Conference closure and farewell

Friday, August 24, 2018 (continued)

10:50 – 11:00Martina BlümelGEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean ResearchThe ALLIANCE mentoring program

11:00 - 11:10Hilary Jane Lewis KarlsonDanish Technological InstituteThe ALLIANCE service offer

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEEProf. Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer

Institute of Biochemistry, University of GreifswaldDr. Anne-Mari Luhtanen

Finnish Environment Institute, HelsinkiMariann Nõlvak

Tartu Biotechnology ParkAngela Schultz-Zehden

SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIGProf. Dr. Thomas Schweder

Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology,University of GreifswaldProf. Dr. Deniz Tasdemir

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

CONFERENCE VENUEAlfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald

Martin-Luther-Straße 14, 17489 Greifswald

CONFERENCE OFFICEBioCon Valley® GmbH, Dr. Rainer Cramm

Markt 13, 17489 GreifswaldPhone: +49 3834 8719896

E-mail: rc@bcv.org