Grand Challenges in Marine Biotechnology (eBook)

Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Book Series “Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology”. He is also Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Senior Editor, Guest Editor and member of the editorial board of several scientific journals on the field of Life Sciences and Biotechnology. Furthermore, Pabulo is member of four Scientific Advisory Boards of Lifeboat Foundation, alongside several Nobel Laureates and other distinguished scientists, philosophers, educators, engineers and economists. Most of his recent work has been dedicated to the editorial process of several scientific journals in life science and biotechnology, as well as on the organization of special issues and books in his fields of expertise. In his special issues and books, some of the most distinguished team leaders in the field have published their work, ideas and findings, including Nobel Laureates and several of the highly cited scientists according to the ISI Institute.    Antonio Trincone is author of more than 140 scientific publications (articles, reviews, book contributions) appeared in international leading scientific journals. Currently he is a Senior Researcher working since 1983 in Naples at the Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare belonging to Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy. He has been Professor of Organic Chemistry in charge for several years at University of Salerno, Italy. Antonio has been the editor of different scientific books and special issues dedicated to marine biotechnology. He is Specialty Chief Editor of Marine Biotechnology (Frontiers in Marine Science), editing different research topics for this journal.

Section 1: The Promise of Marine BiotechnologyContains general chapters collected from authorities in the different fields, aimed at seeing marine biotechnology projected in the 21th century, compiled with a foresight perspective in mind. Capital topics are mentioned such as Health, Food, Energy and Environment as launching ramps of the science for the next section.Section 2: Latest Developments in Marine Biotechnology ResearchContains chapters from author's current research topics, organized in sub-sections each corresponding to the Capital topics of the previous part containing one or more chapters on current science in marine biotechnology field. These texts are intended to report about advances and challenges directly from the labs around the world framing the results in the wide context of marine biotechnology.Section 3: Economic Potential of Marine Biotechnology Includes material dedicated to social/political issues by scientific society representatives, single stakeholders from firms in the field, and other specific leading experts.Section 4: Key Tools and Technologies Dedicated to technologies such as marine -omics, metabolic engineering and other powerful hyphenated spectroscopy technologies (micro-NMR, mass spectrometry, etc.) for natural products identification in resource management and ecological monitoring.Section 5: Grand Projects in Marine Biotechnology Discusses the projects along with other issues including intellectual property rights and other aspects connected to the third section.