The 4th International Symposium on Health and the Sea took place on the 4th and the 5th October 2007. It was a flagship event of the year. Place of exchanges on the health applications of marine resources. It brought a shed light on the latest scientific discoveries and techniques of marine products and by-products.

In 2007, the 4th International Symposium on Health and the Sea offers:
- an international symposium
- a presentation of abstracts and award ceremony
- ‘Quebec style’ lunches
- stands offering free personalised meetings
- a market place

Posters list:

• Optimisation of chitosan transformation into oligomers using an unique three-step bipolar membrane Electrodialysis system
  Laurent Bazinet – Université Laval - Canada
  
  
• Fatty acid and sterol composition of the ascidian leptoclinides sp
  Gilles Bernathan; F. Dagorn; G. Wielgosz-Collin; J.F. Biard – Université de Nantes – France
  
  
• Arachidonic and docosapentaenoic acids, and ostreasterol, as major lipid components of the Cnidarian Palythoa variabilis.
  Gilles Bernathan; G. Wielgosz-Collin; V. Rabesaotra; M. Flores et J.M. Kornprobst – Université de Nantes – France
  J.M. Kornprobst – Université de Nantes – France
  
  
• Identification of a lipase encoding gene with a view to the production of DHA – rich lipid fractions in Isochrysis galbana
  Stéphanie Godet – Université de Laval – France
  
  
• Detection of antimicrobial activity in some marine bivalves and gasteropods species
  Diane Defer - Université de Bretagne Sud - France
  

Participants of the 4th International Symposium selected abstracts and awarded a prize for the best one. The prizewinner, M. Laurent Bazinet from Laval University in Quebec, was awarded during the official gala on the 4th October by the magazine “La recherche” and the representant of Marine Institute of Ireland.

The Scientific Committee

Download the posters