Marine compounds and their nutritional and health effects

Møreforsking is a research institute located in Ålesund, Norway with a strong focus on marine sciences. The institute has for more than 40 years contributed to sustainable marine resource management, innovation and value creation from marine biomass through research in collaboration with industrial clusters, public sector, as well as national and international research institutions. The Institute performs interdisciplinary research on marine resources covering the full value chain from ocean to consumer. Important research areas include sustainable marine ecosystems, fisheries, aquaculture, marine biology, seafood quality, marine biotechnology and molecular cell biology with emphasis on sustainable utilization of marine resources, applications, and consumer behavior.

Møreforsking has laboratory infrastructure for chemical and molecular analysis, a facility for live marine organisms and a process laboratory. We have analytical capability for quality analysis, physical characterization and proximate chemical composition of marine materials. Our lab has instrumentation for protein/peptide profiling by UPLC and fractionation by FPLC, for purification of bioactive proteins, peptides or carbohydrates. It also includes equipment for molecular biology including DNA sequencing (Oxford Nanopore Technologies). We make use of relevant cell culture models for the evaluation of bioactive effects in health and disease.