🔬 "It's like a game. You start to play with your toys and you never know what will be the end of this. This is the beauty in science." 💙. 📹 Check out this episode of our #VoicesOfBLUES series, with Prof. Buki Rinkevich from the Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research:

We're happy to announce that we will take part in the World Sponge Conference #WSC2025 in Portugal, in Sept! 🇵🇹. We'll conduct several oral and poster presentations at this amazing event reuniting experts from natural sciences working to protect this remarkable species!

#MeetTheResearcher 👋 Lara Chrystina Malta Neri of @MatisIceland ! . With a multidisciplinary approach, and diverse experience across countries, Lara is working on enzyme characterisation, seaweed bioprocessing, eDNA analysis, and sea cucumber cell cultures. 👩‍🔬

✍️ New blog post alert! Check out our latest article on the exciting trip our colleagues at Matís Iceland conducted to obtain. 6 live sea cucumbers, who were then sheltered in the company's "Barbie incubator".

A walk down memory lane, as we are reminiscing our days spent in Genoa in February for our 3rd project meeting, discussing, sharing updates and ideas, advising each other, and ultimately strengthening our bond as a team! 💙. All about it on our blog:.🔗

Happy #WorldWaterDay! 💧. Our planet is interconnected - the melting of glaciers leads to floods, landslides, & droughts. 🌍. It is only with joint efforts and adopting sustainable practices that we'll be able to change that. 🌊. See how we contribute:.

Curious to find out more about our project, its methodology, the partners who make up the team, the species we work with, and more importantly - how does our work impact society in the long-run? 🤔. Then you have to check our website! 💻.👉

Time flies when you're having fun! And work. and lots of focaccia! 😊. On the 2nd part of our meeting in Genoa, we. ☑️Discussed our progress, lessons & mistakes.📝Learned about financial & scientific reporting.🧪Checked out the cells in the bioreactors we tried to innoculate

We kicked off our project meeting in rainy Genoa this morning! 💙. We. ➡️had a quick recap of our last meeting.➡️had a guest presentation by the coordinator of our sister project COMBO.➡️did our first lab activity .➡️had a lovely walking tour. Stay tuned for Day 2 updates! 👀

We're meeting in Genoa next week! 🇮🇹 . We'll go over. ☑️Past months' progress .☑️Lessons learned .☑️Dissemination and communication tips.☑️Financial reporting guidelines. & we'll demonstrate our partner's CELLEX bioreactors! 🔬. Stay tuned for updates 👀

Knowledge exchange and cooperation across countries, cultures & languages - one of the biggest gains of #HorizonEurope, in our honest opinion. We recently joined the meeting of our sister project COMBO to discuss future collaborations! . All about it:.🔗

On 18 Dec, we joined our sister project COMBO on a meeting to explore the connections between our work and discuss potential future collaborations. 🤝. Our coordinator René H. Wijffels of @WUR presented our mission & what we've been working on so far. Stay tuned for more updates!

It has been a year since we started our journey and #BLUES remains committed to fostering a circular economy while keeping the planet at the heart of everything we do. 🌍👩‍🔬. Thank you for being part of the #BLUES pathway. Wishing you all a fantastic New Year! 🎉

The holiday season is around the corner & we hope your time with loved ones is filled with meaningful conversations, also on how a more sustainable future could look like.💙. We're certain our partners at the dinner table have plenty of #BLUES stories to share!. Happy Holidays!⭐️

There's progress on our path to unlocking the potential of marine invertebrates 🔬. Our latest blog post gives you a glimpse into the work done at @WUR for scalable, sustainable production of sponge-derived compounds. ⬇️.

#MeetTheResearchers making magic happen in #BLUES 💫 . Dr. Atanassova .🔵leads the research team of our partner Møreforsking 🇳🇴.🔵conducted postodc research in 3 countries .🔵works on the functional properties & value chain development of new marine resources 👩‍🔬

One month ago, the #BLUES team was reuniting in Reykjavik 🇮🇸 to get to know each other better, assess the progress we've made towards our objectives, and strategise for the upcoming months. Today we reflect on how our meeting went in our news piece: 👇.

NEW BLOG POST by Alexandra Vallianou, MSc Student in #Biotechnology & part of the team at @WUR ✍️. In her piece, she explains how the sponge hybridoma technology can revolutionise production of bioactive compounds.🔬. Check it out:.

We took part in this year's #EuropeanResearchersNight! 🎉. Our colleagues at Møreforsking joined the event in Ålesund 🇳🇴 on behalf of our project and talked about #marine research & the BLUES objectives with youngsters - more than 550 people were present!

And we are on with our 2️⃣nd day of the BLUES project meeting! 🇮🇸❤️. Our partners are summarising yesterday's discussions & highlighting priorities for the next months!. 📷 In the photo, Tiago Silva from @udominho