Studying compounds with biotechnological potential produced by marine organisms.

Program areas:

---- Isolation of novel marine microbes for natural products screening (Robb, Hill, Chen)
---- Microbial-sponge co-culture (Hill)
---- Marine Nutriceuticals (Place)
---- Industrially important enzymes from marine organisms, including hyperthermophilic Archaea (Robb, Belas, Schreier, DasSarma)
---- Production of compounds by symbiotic microbes (Schreier, Chen, Hill)
---- Protein biophysics, structure (Belas, Vasta , Maeder, Robb)
---- Lectins (Vasta)
---- Compounds that prevent biofouling (Chen)
---- Bioprocess scale-up of proteins from extremophiles (Sowers)