Applications for the 2025 Horizon Scholarship program are now open!
Applications are now open for the 2025 AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship Program! 🌟 Are you part of the next generation of leaders that will drive the future prosperity of Australian rural industries and communities? 🌏 The Horizon Scholarship is awarded to students studying an agriculture-related undergraduate degree or a Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths/Finance (STEM) degree with […]
Announcing MBCRC’s new Chief Commercial Officer!
Marine Bioproducts CRC (MBCRC) is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Chief Commercial Officer, Dr Anthony Dyer. Anthony has a PhD in marine biotechnology and a lifelong passion for marine issues. He also has a long and productive history in contributing to the CRC program including establishing several spin out organisations, new technologies […]
Meeting with Shandong business delegation
Wonderful to be hosted by MBCRC Core Partner Flinders University to meet a business delegation from Shandong Province, South Australia’s sister state! Shandong is the largest blue economy state in China, and we look forward to working further with the group to explore opportunities for marine bioproducts.
Congratulations to all winners – AusHealth CureCell Awards!
We are delighted to support these important Awards through the inaugural Marine Bioproducts CRC CureCell Award for Marine Medical Biotech. Well done to Maximilian Garwood (University of Queensland) on winning this category to support his PhD work on ‘Producing monoclonal antibodies in microalgae’. Read more about the CureCell Awards here.
Seagriculture Asia-Pacific 18-20 March 2025 in Adelaide
MBCRC is delighted to be a Silver Sponsor of the first in-person Seagriculture Asia-Pacific conference! Seagriculture Asia-Pacific 2025 speakers will share expertise on seaweed for feed, food, offshore cultivation, biorefinery of seaweed, and much more. Australia’s southern coast has around 1,500 species of seaweed, one of the highest numbers in the world, with private and […]
Celebrating connection to sea and country
MBCRC is delighted to sponsor this iconic cultural event which celebrates the Gynburra and Narungga Nation Aboriginal Community connection to sea and country. Find out more.
Farming microalgae
An interesting article on the potential of microalgae according to Jörg Ullmann, who is considered one of the world’s experts on algae biomass and microalgae cultivation on an industrial scale.
How brown seaweed became a blueprint for success
Twenty-one years ago, a start-up company bought a licence to harvest an invasive seaweed in Tasmania’s clean seas. Today Marinova is a world-leading producer of pure fucoidan – and winner of MBCRC’s inaugural Partner Excellence Award … Read the full story here.
Congratulations to our Excellence Awards winners!
Congratulations to all winners at the inaugural MBCRC Excellence Awards, presented at the Marine BioConnect 24 conference Gala Dinner last night! The Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the field of marine bioproducts and the greater marine community. MBCRC Partner Award – Marinova Pty Ltd (Accepted by Dr Corinna Dwan) 2024 MBCRC Research Award – Professor […]
World-first kelp restoration guidebook
A new kelp restoration guidebook launched this month shares lessons learned from projects in Tasmania and around the world. The vision: to cultivate a global alliance of restoration practitioners who will work together to ensure kelp forests flourish in our planet’s changing seas. Read more here. Image credit: Dr Cayne Layton