IMET hosted the Korea-Maryland Bio Expo’s session on Bioenergy and Sustainable Aquaculture on November 4, 2011. Talks were given by IMET faculty members Drs. Russell Hill, Feng Chen, Yonathan Zohar, Sook Chung, Allen Place and Frank Robb, as well as by Dr. Deuk San Jeo from the Gyeongbuk Institute for Marine Bio-Industry.

A ceremony was held at the end of the session for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for research cooperation between IMET and the Marine Biotechnology Research Center of the Korea Ocean Research and Development Center (KORDI). The MOU was signed by Dr. Hyung-Soon Yim (KORDI) and Dr. Russell Hill (IMET).

Fish farming already produces half the word's marketable fish. But is it environmentally friendly? Aaron Watson and Steve Rogers at Baltimore's Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology explain why plant based fish feed and recirculated aquaculture may be the future for farmed fish.

Watch the video here.

When: December 7, 2011, Multi-purpose Rm, 3:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Robert Sabatini, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
Host: Dr. Allen Place

When: November 30th, 2011, Multi-purpose Rm, 3:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Anton F. Post, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole)
Host: Dr. Yonathan Zohar

When: November 15, 2011, Multi-purpose Rm, 3:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Pei-San Tsai, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado
Host: Dr. Sook Chung