Porifarma B.V. intends to be the leading sponge marine biotechnology company: producing, extracting, and supplying sponges and natural products derived from sponges in a sustainable manner.

NEWS:

   26 - 28 May 2011 - 2nd EU SPECIAL Meeting in Bodrum, Turkey, hosted by Porifarma

   April 2011 - Porifarma is searching for possibilities to acquire a Scientific Class ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle), capable of sampling up to 1000 ft (335 m) water depth

   March 2011 - Start pre-trials for intergrated aquaculture in Bodrum, Turkey for EU project SPECIAL

   January 16^th - March 26^th 2011 - First expedition for EU project SPECIAL to Curacao

   1^st December 2010 - Porifarma started EU project:

   4^th October 2010 - Job opening CLOSED. Porifarma received more than 70 applications for the available Junior Researcher position! Thank you for all the interest and motivation. This week we will peronally notify every candidate if they are among the 5 selected candidates for a second round of interviews.

  18^th September 2010 - Porifarma interview and company profile in Bionieuws: A two-weekly Dutch magazine for biologists with (inter)national news, pictures, illustrations, interviews, opinion- and background articles.

    9^th September 2010 - Job opening:   Junior Researcher   with the opportunity to do a PhD-research at the University of Amsterdam

Are you interested in innovative and cutting-edge research?

Are you: Either male or female, independent, flexible, broadly interested in science, hard working, well-trained in laboratory and fieldwork techniques (preferably MSc in aquatic/marine ecology, biotechnology and/or cell biology), technically skilled, interested in traveling and diving, licensed to drive a car?

contact us and we are happy to provide you with more information

   1^st of August 2010 - Porifarma's CEO and CSO attending 8^th International Sponge Conference

Porifarma's CEO (Jasper de Goeij) and CSO (Ronald Osinga) are both attending the 8^th International Sponge Conference to be held from 20-24 September 2010 in Girona, Spain. They will both give a lecture on the ongoing and future work of Porifarma.

Porifarma’s CEO Dr. Ir. Jasper de Goeij and a team of colleagues have discovered how a reef-dwelling species of sponge can take up enormous amounts of carbon without growing in size. The sponge Halisarca caerulea has an extremely fast turnover of filter cells. The cell division is extremely fast and the sponge expels ‘old’ cells.

Sponges are the ultimate recyclers of the coral reef and explain why the most productive ecosystem on earth, the coral reef, can thrive in the nutrient-poor tropical waters, the marine equivalent of a desert.

 

Nature (Vol 462, page 255) highlights this study, a longer story by Matt Kaplan is published on the Nature News site:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The paper is published by The Journal of Experimental Biology and featured by Kathryn Knight in the Inside JEB section:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cell kinetics of the marine sponge Halisarca caerulea reveal rapid cell turnover and shedding (2009) J. M. De Goeij, A. De Kluijver, F. C. Van Duyl, J. Vacelet, R. H. Wijffels, A. F. P. M. De Goeij, J. P. M. Cleutjens, and B. Schutte. J Exp Biol 212: pp 3892-3900.