A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, will sign an agreement on cooperation within the framework of the world-class Marine Scientific Center.
On June 3, in the hall of the board of the Federal Agency for Fishery, an organizational meeting of the World-class Marine Scientific Center (NCMU) took place. The event was attended by the heads of scientific and educational organizations of the Federal Agency for Fishery and the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as the technical partner of the NCMU - GC "Antey".
The establishment and activities of the Center are regulated by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. The project was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Breakthrough solutions for creating an advanced fishing industry can only be found through joint efforts of academic and applied science with the involvement of high-tech companies. The Marine Science Center will become an organizational form of this integration," said Ilya Shestakov, head of the Federal Agency for Fishery.
The NCMU is faced with the tasks of developing new promising technologies for the extraction and processing of Antarctic krill, fish and invertebrates, algae, technologies for industrial aqua and mariculture, technologies for the production of medicinal food products. A promising direction will be the decoding of the genomes of deep-sea organisms with a unique metabolism in order to be used for marine pharmacology, aquaculture and agriculture.
During the meeting, an agreement on cooperation will be signed between all participants of the NCMU:
- All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)
- Group of companies "Antey"
- Kaliningrad State Technical University
- P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
- National Scientific Center for Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
- Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry