Bernard Kloareg: unlocking marine genomics’ potential

Bernard Kloareg is the director of the Station biologique de Roscoff, a major science facility for marine research located in the Brittany region of France. He is the coordinator of an EU-funded knowledge transfer project called Marine Genomics for Users (MG4U), designed to make the tools used in marine genomics available to the wider research and industry community. Ultimately, the future European marine biological resource centre (EMBRC), an infrastructure gathering major European marine research centres, will continue to carry out knowledge transfer of marine genomic research. Kloareg tells youris.com about the potential of this field, based on high-throughput genome sequencing for food and pharmaceutical applications and for environmental monitoring.

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