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marine drugs Conference Report XVI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products|XI European Conference on Marine Natural Products Rui Pedrosa 1, Susana P. Gaudêncio 2,* and Vitor Vasconcelos 3,4 1 MARE—Marine and Environmental Science Centre, Polytechnic of Leiria, 2520-630 Peniche, Portugal; [email protected] 2 UCIBIO—Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, Blue Biotechnology and Biomedicine Lab, Faculty for Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal 3 CIIMAR-Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal; [email protected] 4 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Porto University, 4069-007 Porto, Portugal * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 15 November 2019; Accepted: 23 November 2019; Published: 6 January 2020 Preface The International Symposium on Marine Natural Products (MaNaPro) happened for the first time in 1975 in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland, organized by Professor Ronald H. Thomson. The European Conference on Marine Natural Products (ECMNP) occurred for the first time in 1997 in Athens, Greece, organized by Professor Vassilios Roussis. The MaNaPro and ECMNP conferences have triennial and biennial frequencies, respectively. Since its first edition, the ECMNP has been set in the alternating years of the Gordon Conferences on Marine Natural Products. In 2019, it was the second time, in 44 years, that a joint organization of the MaNaPro and ECMNP meetings occurred. The first joint meeting of the MaNaPro and the ECMNP occurred in 2013 in Galicia, La Toja, Spain, organized by Dr. Carmen Cuevas from PharmaMar. Over the time, there have been 16 editions of the MaNaPro and 11 editions of the ECMNP held in several countries. The list of 16 editions of the MaNaPro is shown as following: I International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 8–11 September 1975, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, organized by Ronald H. Thomson; II International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 12–15 September 1978, Sorrento, Italy, organized by Mario Piattelli; III International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 16–19 September 1980, Brussels, Belgium, organized by Bernard Tursch and Jean-Claude Braekman; IV International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 26–30 July 1982, Tenerife, Spain, organized by Antonio G. Gonzáles and Julio D. Martín; V International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 2–6 September 1985, Paris, France, organized by Yoel Kashman and R obert H. Dodd; VI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 3–7 July 1989, Dakar, Senegal, organized by Jean-Michel Kornprobst; VII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 5–10 July 1992, Capri, Italy, organized by Luigi Minale; VIII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 10–15 September 1995, Tenerife, Spain, organized by Julio D. Martin; Mar. Drugs 2020, 18, 40; doi:10.3390/md18010040 www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs Mar. Drugs 2020, 18, 40 2 of 176 IX International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 5–10 July 1998, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, organized by Bruce F. Bowden; X International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 24–29 June 2001, Okinawa, Japan, organized by Tatsuo Higa; XI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 4–9 September 2004, Sorrento, Italy, organized by Ernesto Fattorusso, Guido Cimino and Raffaele Riccio; XII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 4–9 February 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand, organized by John Blunt and Murray Munro; XIII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 17–22 October 2010, Phuket, Thailand, organized by Khanit Suwanborirux; XIV International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 15–20 September 2013, La Toja, Spain, organized by Carmen Cuevas; XV International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 29 August–2 September 2016, Fortaleza, Brazil, organized by Leticia V. Costa-Lotufo; XVI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 1–5 September 2019, Peniche, Portugal, organized by Rui Pedrosa, Susana P. Gaudêncio, and Vitor Vasconcelos. The list of 11 editions of the ECMNP is shown as following: I European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 2–6 November 1997, Athens, Greece, organized by Vassilios Roussis; II European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 12–16 September 1999, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, organized by Ricardo Riguera; III European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 15–20 September 2002, Munich, Germany, organized by Thomas Lindel and Matthias Köck; IV European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 12–16 September 2005, Paris, France, organized by Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki and Ali Al-Mourabit; V European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 16–21 September 2007, Naples, Italy, organized by Angelo Fontana; VI European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 19–23 July 2009, Porto, Portugal, organized by Anake Kijjoa; VII European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 14–18 August 2011, Strömstad, Sweden, organized by Lars Bohlin; VIII European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 15–20 September 2013, La Toja, Spain, organized by Carmen Cuevas; IX European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 30 August–3 September 2015, Glasgow, UK, organized by Ruangelie Edrada-Ebel. X European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 3–7 September 2017, Crete, Greece, organized by Efstathia Ioannou and Vassilios Roussis. XI European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 1–5 September 2019, Peniche, Portugal, organized by Rui Pedrosa, Susana P. Gaudêncio, and Vitor Vasconcelos. The International Board of Directors for the MaNaPro meetings consists of Professor William Fenical from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), UCSD, USA, Professor Angelo Fontana from the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB), Italy, Dr. Carmen Cuevas from PharmaMar, Spain, Professor Jörn Piel from the Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zwitzerland, Professor John Blunt from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Professor Marcel Jaspars from the University of Aberdeen, UK, Professor Murray Munro from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Professor Ronald Quinn from the Eskitis Institute, Griffith University, Australia, Professor Shigeki Matsunaga from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Professor Tadeusz Molinski from the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSD, USA. As for the European counterpart, the European Board of Directors for the ECMNP meetings includes Professor Anake Kijoa Mar. Drugs 2020, 18, 40 3 of 176 from the University of Porto, Portugal, Professor Ali Al Mourabit from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, Professor Angelo Fontana from the Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry (ICB), Italy, Professor Efstathia Ioannou from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Professor Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki from the Centre National de la Recherche Mar. Drugs 2020, 18, x FOR PEER REVIEW 3 of 183 Scientifique (CNRS), France, Professor Matthias Köck from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, Professor Ruangelie Edrada-Ebel from the University of Strathclyde, UK, and Professor Vassilios Institute, Germany, Professor Ruangelie Edrada-Ebel from the University of Strathclyde, UK, and Roussis from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Professor Vassilios Roussis from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. The MaNaPro and ECMNP meetings have been very successful, with a primary focus on studies The MaNaPro and ECMNP meetings have been very successful, with a primary focus on studies related to marine chemistry. The MaNaPro symposia remain the world’s most noteworthy events in related to marine chemistry. The MaNaPro symposia remain the world’s most noteworthy events in this scientific field. The ECMNP arose from the acknowledgment that, mostly due to financial reasons, this scientific field. The ECMNP arose from the acknowledgment that, mostly due to financial young European scientists were not able to participate in major international conferences on marine reasons, young European scientists were not able to participate in major international conferences on natural products. It is the ECMNP’s main goal to encourage younger researchers’ awareness in the marine natural products. It is the ECMNP’s main goal to encourage younger researchers’ awareness fascinating interdisciplinary fields of marine natural products research and at the same time promote in the fascinating interdisciplinary fields of marine natural products research and at the same time collaborations around the world. Both the meetings are self-financed. The first three editions of the promote collaborations around the world. Both the meetings are self-financed. The first three editions ECMNP were supported by the 5th European Framework Program and the Training and Mobility of of the ECMNP were supported by the 5th European Framework Program and the Training and Researchers uniquely. In 2019, the joint XVI MaNaPro and XI ECMNP meeting held in Peniche on the Mobility of Researchers uniquely. In 2019, the joint XVI MaNaPro and XI ECMNP meeting held in 1st to the 5th of September was supported by the financial services of the Polytechnic of Leiria and the Peniche on the 1st to the 5th of September was supported by the financial services of the Polytechnic sponsorships of several companies. Visit Portugal and PharmaMar were diamond sponsors, and the of Leiria and the sponsorships of several companies. Visit Portugal and PharmaMar were diamond