Philippine Mollusk Symbiont International Cooperative Biodiversity Group PDF Print E-mail

The scope of the Philippine Mollusk Symbiont International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (PMS-ICBG) includes biodiversity, drug discovery, biofuels and basic research. The focus is on bacteria associated with mollusks in one of the world's hotspots of diversity, the Philippines. The project aims to enhance conservation, research capability and economic development in the Philippines, while providing pharmaceutical and energy-related discoveries of worldwide value.
 
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Listen to an interview with Margo Haygood about the PMS-ICBG project at:

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UP MSI wins major environmental award PDF Print E-mail

The University of the Philippines, Diliman, Marine Science Institute (Philippine home of PMS-ICBG) wins prestigious international prize.

The Marine Science Institute of the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UP MSI) has been awarded, ex-aequo with the Global Footprint Network from the US, the Calouste Gulbenkian International Prize 2008 for its “thoughts or actions that have made a decisive contribution to and have significant impact on understanding, defending or fostering the universal values of the human condition, with particular reference to respect for biodiversity and defence of the environment in man’s relationship with nature” 
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Philippines Research Revival PDF Print E-mail

Science 5 December 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5907, p. 1459
DOI: 10.1126/science.322.5907.1459

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SCIENCE POLICY:
Philippines Plans Research Revival

Dennis Normile

The Philippines government is hoping to reinvigorate its science base by improving science education, expanding scholarship programs, and raising research spending. But will it be enough to lure back expatriate scientists?

 

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April 27, 2009

PMS ICBG participant  Baldomero "Toto" Olivera was elected to the prestigious United States National Academy of Sciences.

University of Utah press release
 

March 5, 2009

Beautiful bacterial colonies are emerging on the agar plates from the February 2009 PMS-ICBG collecting expedition. See photos from the expedition.