Alta, Norway, Sept, 6th - 8th, 2010: The 7th Circumpolar

Presentation of ALGEBAKT project. Antibacterial effect of arctic macroalgae species DMV, PhD, Margarita Novoa-Garrido

Alta, Norway, Sept, 6th - 8th, 2010: The 7th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference "Circumpolar Agricultural and Land Use Resources - Prospects and Perspectives for Circumpolar Productions and Industries"

The MABIT-programme is an industrial R&D program for Northern Norway.

Bioforsk Nord Bodø. Bioproduction and ecosystems along the coast Coastal ecology - possibilities for commercial exploitation of coastal and marine resources without damaging ecosystems. Our main focus is the algae.

Background for the project • Antibiotics: therapy and growth promotion • Ab-resistance • Antibiotics banned in Europe as antibiotic growth promoters since 2006 It was on a short-cut through the hospital kitchens that Albert was first approched by a member of the Antibiotic Resistance.

Antibiotic resistance test of P. aeruginosa strain

Foto: Unni Lorentsen

A. nodosum

Pelvetia canaliculata

Palmaria palmata Alaria esculenta

ALGINATE Vegetables in seaweed project in Bioforsk Nord. Foto: I. Øvsthus

A. nodosum

L. hyperborea

SEAWEED MEAL

Sheep in seaweed meal project in Bioforsk Nord. Foto: H.J. Skulstad

Algae composition • • • • • • •

Dietary fibre (