13th IMBC Postponed to 2025

The board of International Marine Biotechnology Association has decided to postpone the conference originally scheduled for 2022. We anticipate that the 13th International Marine Biotechnology Conference will take place Monday 7th to Friday 11th July, 2025. It will be in Brest, France as originally planned.

APMBC 2023

The very successful 13th Asia Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference (APMBC) combined with the 5th Australia New Zealand Marine Biotechnology Society Conference (5th ANZMBS) was held in October 2023. For more information, click the button below.

APMBC Website

MBC2019-Special Issue of Marine Biotechnology

A special issue of Marine Biotechnology was released including papers from the 2019 Marine Biotechnology Conference.

Read the Special Issue

Thanks to all who attended IMBC 2019!

Hosted jointly by the International Marine Biotechnology Conference and the Asia Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference

9 September - 13 September

Shizuoka, Japan

Conference Website

This conference was a great success! There were more than 500 participants from 27 countries.

See photos here: 9th Sep, 10th Sep, 11th Sep, 12th Sep, 13th Sep

The next IMBC will be held in July, 2024 in Brest, France.

Our vision for the 21st century is that marine biotechnology will apply advanced knowledge and tools from marine sciences, engineering, molecular biology and information technology to the understanding of marine habitats and organisms representative of the total diversity of marine systems, in order to obtain scientific information on marine life processes and ecosystems, from the whole organisms to the molecular and genetic levels, that can be turned into new products and approaches for the benefit of a wide range of industries, marine macro- and microbiota and the sustainable wise use and management of the world’s oceans.