Outstanding Marine Molecules

Stéphane La Barre is a senior research scientist at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He obtained his MSc. Degree from Auckland University, New Zealand, and his PhD at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, before entering CNRS in 1984. His multi-disciplinary career includes marine chemical ecology, natural products chemistry of terrestrial and marine organisms and polymer chemistry. Stéphane La Barre is currently the coordinator of the research cluster BioChiMar (Marine Biodiversity and Chemodiversity), and he is developing research on new analytical tools to evaluate and predict environmental changes on coral reefs diversity, both biological and chemical. Jean-Michel Kornprobst is emeritus professor at the University of Nantes, France. He is engineer in chemistry (Montpellier) and got his PhD at the University of Lyon in 1969. Assistant-professor at the University Paris 7 from 1970 to 1973, he became professor of organic chemistry at the University of Dakar, Senegal and worked on marine natural products from 1974 to 1990 and he created a scuba diving school at Dakar in 1984. He joined the University of Nantes in 1990 and became emeritus professor in 2003. He was responsible for two research programs on manapros at the University of Doha, Qatar, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He published more than 100 publications and 3 books. He has recently been an invited professor at the Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Campinas, Brazil, and Blida, Algeria and he is currently external member of the scientific advisory board of the marine Biotechnology Research Center (MRBC) of Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

PART 1. OUTSTANDING MARINE MOLECULES FROM A CHEMICAL POINT OF VIEW
Marine Cyanotoxins Potentially Harmful to Human Health (Mélanie Roué, Muriel Gugger, Stjepko Golubic, Zouher Amzil, Romulo Aráoz, Jean Turquet, Mireille Chinain, Dominique Laurent)
Marine Biotoxins: STX, TTX, CTX (Philippe Amade, Mohamed Mehiri, Richard J. Lewis)
Impact of Marine-Derived Penicillium Species in the Discovery of New Potential Antitumor Drugs (Yves-François Pouchus, Marieke Vansteelandt, Catherine Roullier, Elodie Blanchet, Yan Guitton)
Astonishing Fungal Diversity in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Ecosystems: An Untapped Resource of Biotechnological Potential? (Gaëtan Burgaud, Laurence Meslet-Cladière, Georges Barbier, Virginia. P. Edgcomb)
Glycolipids from Marine Invertebrates (Gilles Barnathan, Aurélie Couzinet-Mossion, Gaëtane Wielgosz-Collin, Nicolas Ruiz, Olivier Grovel)
Pigments of Living Fossil Crinoids (Jean-Michel Kornprobst, Cécile Debitus)
PART 2. OUTSTANDING MARINE MOLECULES FROM AN ECOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW
Bacterial Communication Systems (Tilmann Harder, Scott Rice, Sergey Dobretsov, Torsten Thomas, Alyssa Carré-Mlouka, Staffan Kjellberg, Peter Steinberg, Diane McDougald)
Domoic Acid (Stéphane La Barre, Stephen Bates, Michael Quilliam)
Algal Morphoinducers (Bénédicte Charrier, Zofia Nehr)
Halogenation and Vanadium Haloperoxidases (Catherine Leblanc, Jean-Baptiste Fournier)
PART 3. OUTSTANDING MARINE MOLECULES FOR THEIR BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES
New Promising Substances in Pharmacology (Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki, Jean-Michel Kornprobst)
Promises of the Unprecedented Aminosterol Squalamine (Jean-Michel Brunel, Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki)
Marine Peptide Secondary Metabolites (Bernard Banaigs, Isabelle Bonnard, Anne Witzak, Nicolas Inguimbert)
Conotoxins and other Conopeptides (David Craik, Quentin Kaas)
Mycosporin-Like Amino Acids (MAAs) in Biological Photosystems (Stéphane La Barre, Joël Boustie, Catherine Roulier)
The Extracellular Hemoglobins from Annelids and their Potentials used in Biotechnology (Franck Zal, Morgan Rousselot)
Lamellarins: A Tribu of Bioactive Marine Natural Products (Christian Bailly)
PART 4: NEW TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL METHODS
NMR to Elucidate Structure (Stéphane Cérantola, Gaëlle Simon, Nelly Kervarec)
General Introduction to Omics (Catherine Boyen, Jonas Collén)
Gene Mining for Environmental Studies and Applications: Examples from Marine Organisms (Thierry Tonon, Simon Dittami)
Proteomics and Metabolomics of Marine Organisms: Current Strategies and Knowledge (Philippe Potin, Funny Gaillard)
Genomics of the Biosynthesis of Natural Products: From Genes to Metabolites (Olivier Ploux, Annick Méjean)
High-Throughput Screening of Marine Resources (Stéphane Bach, Arnaud Hochard, Luc Reininger, Sandrine Ruchaud)