Marine diatoms are a rich source of bioactivity

• Main Author: Ingebrigtsen, Richard Andre
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Norske havforeres forening 2014
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497; Barents Sea; Norway; Tromsø; Tive; Northern Norway; University of Tromsø
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8927

As part of the MabCent-SFI drug-discovery initiative organized by the University of Tromsø, the coastal areas of northern Norway and the Barents Sea have been investigated (2006-2014). We saw that bioac- tive compounds from diatoms are very rarely reported (1-4). There- fore we desided that during the initial MabCent research cruises, di- atom strains should be isolated and kept in a culture collection and subsequently mass-cultivated in order to investigate their bioactivity by screening the diatom extracts using the Marbio (UiT) assay line.