Recent Advances in Marine Microbial Biotechnology and Bioproducts

Microorganisms from marine and coastal environments represent a vastly undervalorized resource for biotechnological applications. These unique habitats harbor extraordinary microbial diversity and metabolic capabilities that have increasingly attracted scientific attention, initiating many novel discoveries. Their products have an immense potential in many biotechnological applications. These are largely covered within the field of marine microbial biotechnology, a field with high potential to contribute to wellbeing, health and prosperity of this and future generations.
This Research Topic aims to highlight recent advances in marine and coastal microbial biotechnology by collecting a wide array of contributions that focus either on the initial stages of biodiscovery, to laboratory scale research, up to upscaled and commercially ready products.
We welcome contributions that target:
- Bioprospecting of undervalorized marine and coastal environments, in line with the UN Decade of the ocean to foster scientific and technological innovation.
- Advanced omics techniques applied to marine and coastal microbial communities
- Novel cultivation and extraction methodologies optimized for marine and coastal microorganisms
- Applications in various biotechnological sectors: agri-food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, energy, environmental, industrial
- Sustainability, addressing environmental impacts, economic viability and social impacts
Other relevant innovations are also welcome.

As a target, advances in the last 5-10 years are most welcome, aiming at identifying the current state of the art, potential applications, but also bottlenecks in the development pipeline and key scientific and innovation players in this exciting field.

Topic Editor Ana Rotter is a founder of Ocean4Biotech. The other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regard to the Research Topic subject.