Conference Recording & Presentations

The GENIALG Final Conference took place virtually on 30 November 2020. This recording of the event held over Zoom, contains all conference presentations. The conference can be viewed in full by clicking the link above, or alternatively you can click the links below to access the recording at specific sessions and presentations. Some presentations below are also available to download in PDF format.

00:00 Welcome Address from GENIALG Conference Coordination Team

16:17 Session 1: Ulva spp. Seaweed Value Chain

16:42 Ulva Biobanking, Phenotyping and Genotyping: The Path Towards Breeding (Ronan Sulpice, Antoine Fort, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) / Download presentation

42:03 Video break: Insight into European Seaweed Companies – ALGAplus (Portugal) 49:03 Ulva spp. Land-based Cultivation Demonstrator (Helena Abreu, ALGAplus, Portugal)

1:25:04 Ulva spp. Seaweed Composition and Processing (Rosario Domingues, University of Aveiro, Portugal)

1:39:11 Enzymatic Deconstruction of Ulva Seaweed Biomass (Rachael Hallam, University of York, UK) / Download presentation

1:50:30 Video break: Insight into European Seaweed Companies – Olmix Group (France)

1:52:53 Ulva spp. Seaweed Pilot Scale Fractionation of Ulva biomass (Joe Bennett, Biorenewables Development Centre, UK)

2:03:02 Ulva spp. Seaweed Biorefining (Maria Matard-Mann, Olmix Group, France)

2:19:35 Ulva spp. Seaweed Value Chain (Patent and Life Cycle Assessment). (Sander van den Burg, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands; Ana Daniel and Ana Dias, University of Aveiro, Portugal)

2:46:52 Philippe Potin Overview of Session 1

3:58:40 Session 2: Saccharina latissima Value Chain

3:59:00 Saccharina latissima Seaweed Biobanking, Genotyping and Phenotyping (Claire Gachon, Scottish Association of Marine Science, UK)

4:17:57 Saccharina latissima Seaweed Offshore Cultivation (Frank Neumann, Seaweed Solutions, Norway) / Download presentation

4:49:35 Video break: Insight into European Seaweed Companies – Seaweed Solutions (Norway) and C-Weed Aquaculture (France)

4:55:18 Saccharina latissima Seaweed Composition and Processing (Leonardo Gomez, University of York, UK) / Download presentation

5:07:18 Enzymes for Processing Saccharina latissima Seaweed Biomass (Diane Jouanneau, CNRS, France) / Download presentation

5:21:07 Saccharina latissima Seaweed’s Fucoxanthin in a Pharmaceutical Application (David Bailey, IOTA Pharmaceuticals, UK)

5:38:58 Video break: Insight into European Seaweed Companies – Algaia (France)

5:44:42 Saccharina latissima Seaweed Biorefining (Benoit Queguineur, Algaia, France)

5:59:57 Fractionation of Saccharina latissima Seaweed Biomass at Pilot Scale (Joe Bennett, Biorenewables Development Centre, UK)

6:10:20 Saccharina latissima Seaweed Value Chain (Patent and Life Cycle Assessment). (Sander van den Burg and Maggie Skirtun, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands; Ana Daniel, University of Aveiro, Portugal)

6:31:18 Seaweed Cookery Demonstration with Prannie Rhatigan, Irish Seaweed Kitchen, Ireland

6:50:46 Ecological Impact of Seaweed Cultivation (Jose Maria Farinas-Franco, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland) / Download presentation

7:18:21 Social Licensing at Seaweed Farm Sites (Suzi Billing, Scottish Association of Marine Science, UK) / Download presentation

7:37:00 Ecosystem Services Assessment for Seaweed Farms (Sebastian Villasante, CIIMAR, Portugal)

7:55:17 Final Round Table Discussion: Future Vision for the European Seaweed Sector. Moderator: Philippe Potin, CNRS. Guest panellists: Isabel Sousa Pinto, CIIMAR; Pi Nyvall Collen, Olmix Group; Adrien Vincent, Seaweed For Europe & Systemiq; Vincent Doumeizel, Lloyd’s Register Foundation & UN Global Compact.