The ANZMBS has 199 members listed from 6 nations and including 64 institutions or bodies, many dating back to our incorporation in 2014. There have been boosts to membership at each of our conferences, which are held every couple of years. We have recently improved our membership database and management with an aim to improving communication with our members, keeping current addresses of members and improved the ease of maintaining an active membership (including renewal notifications).

If your membership is out of date, you can update it here (join us), and if you’d prefer us to be using a newer email address you can let us know here.

We’d love to hear about your work in marine biotechnology and if possible, help to promote it via our website and society social media feeds. If you have anything you’d like us to share please email us.

The Society held our 4th conference as a joint virtual meeting together with the international Physiomar meeting on September 7-9, 2021.  

A truly international forum was held, especially trans-Tasman, despite COVID barriers with:
 

• 166 conference attendees, 62 of these were part of the ANZMBS stream.
• Joint and separate sessions were held and ANZMBS and Physiomar attendees were able to connect and share their work.
• The conference also included an industry session highlighting several Australian and NZ marine biotechnology companies.

The recorded video presentations from this conference are now available to ANZMBS members.
More details on how to view this content are later in this email - as an exclusive member's only benefit.
 

We were very pleased to award the best student biotechnology talk at the New Zealand Marine Science Society conference in July 2021 to University of Waikato PhD candidate Vanessa Taikato for her presentation entitled
“Exploring traditional practices of bivalve translocation: a multidisciplinary approach.”
Vanessa then gave an invited speaker talk at our December 2021 conference on the topic that can be viewed in the newly created "Members Only" section of our website.

Following our last virtual meeting - we have opened up a section of our website for our members.
This includes exclusive content from our last meeting, and handy access to our newsletters. 

You can click the link below and create an account using the "Sign Up" button.
 

We remind members that the Society is proudly affiliated with the following journals offering discounts on subscriptions and publishing:

Details can be obtained at our website here.

Additionally, the journal Sustainability (MDPI) has a current call for papers that might be of interest for a special issue themed “Marine Biotechnology for Sustainability of Ecologically Significant Resources”.

We are scoping on how the Society might support internships at academic institutes or industry. Please watch this space for more upcoming information.

The date for our next conference to be held in Adelaide has been set as October 2-6 2023.
As the international organising committee is being established, we will be updating our website as additional details become available.

Please continue to check our upcoming newsletters for more info.

A high-level report on the biotechnology in New Zealand “Innovating for a Sustainable Future" was published by BiotecNZ in 2020 that can be found here. The Society will be partnering with BiotechNZ to have a deeper dive in to the marine biotechnology sector.

Australia New Zealand Marine Biotechnology Society
anzmarinebiotechnology@gmail.com
https://anzmbs.asn.au/