Istituto per le Risorse Biologiche e le Biotecnologie Marine (headquarter)
CNR-IRBIM
Type of Research Institution
 Intergovernmental  Academic
 Governmental, national  Private
 Governmental, local  Charity / Foundation
Address : Spianata San Raineri 86
98122 Messina ITALY
Phone :
Director : Dr Gian Marco Luna
Contact person :
Mikhail Yakimov
Number of permanent staff
 Scientists (with doctorate/ PhD) : 19  others : 9
Type of Activities
 Pure research  Academic
 Applied research  Education / Outreach
 Long-term monitoring  Policy / Planning / Consultancy
 Technology for environmental applications  Conservation & Protection
Main fields of research (at present - 6 max)
population dynamics and stock assessment of fisheries resources including spatial distribution analyses; fishing technology for sustainable fisheries; biology and ecology of marine organisms, included alien species; marine microbial ecology and biotechnology, bio-prospecting; integrated Multi Trophic Aquaculture – IMTA; sustainable Aquaculture; systems for Marine Monitoring and advanced technology devices
Main research collaborations at international level (at present)
* ICES Working Group “Comparative Analyses between European Atlantic and Mediterranean Marine
* SAC/GFCM Working Groups on Stock Assessment
Ongoing long-term monitoring programs
* European Data Collection Fframework (Regulation (EU) 2017/1004): under the “Programma Nazionale Raccolta Dati alieutici ”: IInternational Bottom Trawl Survey in the Mediterranean (MEDITS), Monitoring of commercial catch (CAMPBIOL)
* Interreg V-A Italy-Croatia CBC Programme 2014-2020 - SOUNDSCAPE
* CIRCLES - Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems
* PRIN 2017-201728ZA49-001-(IAKIMOV Mikhail)
* “FIFAFeed Insects For Aquaculture– PO FEAMP 2014-2020
* PON -THALASSA
* PNRA16_00075 - B – NANOPANTA
* PNRA16-00020 "Poriferi antartici: Hot-spots di diversità Procariotica e Potenzialità biotecnologiche”
* PNRA16-00105 "Colonizzazione microbica di ambienti bentonici in Antartide (ANT-Biofilm)”
* PNRA 16_00121 - A1 - ENIGMA
* PNRA16_00089 – A1 –SIMPLY
* PNRA 16_00207 CELEBER
* PNRA18_00041 - B2 - Study of Bacteria resistant to Antibiotics and heavy Metals (water, sediment and Trematomus bernacchii) and detection of Heavy metals (SBAM)
* SANi – Salute e Ambiente – Fattori di rischio da contaminanti nei disordini del Neurosviluppo
* ENI-SYNDIAL
* RED TIDES Monitoring and Analysis - Partnership Agreement between IHB-CAS and IRBIM-CNR
* Bando: CNR/ASRT -2018-2019
* ITEM (CTN02_00059_9948371)
Total area dedicated to research (m2)
2000
Conference room
 no yes (number of seats : 40 )
Research vessel(s)
 less than 12 m in length; number of vessels : 1
  more than 12 m in length;
Other major research facilities and equipment
* Experimental Aquaculture Facility ( authorized by Ministry of Health (d. lgs 26/2014)
*  Microcosms and Mesocosms Facilities
*  Fishing gear and technologies facility
Ecosystem types available nearby
 Direct access to sea No direct access to brackish / estuarine waters
Areas of taxonomic expertise
 fish, crustaceans, cephopods, megabenthos of trawlable bottoms, phytoplankton, zooplankton
Specimen collections
 yes no
Hosting facilities for visiting scientists
 yes no
Training courses
 yes no
Capacity and brief description of library
 library of about 2000 volumes complete with important publications of notable scientific and historic importance on the principal oceanographic expeditions carried out from the last century onward

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Last update : 22/05/2020