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Presentation Title: Challenges on seaweed cultivation and breeding in Korea Fisheries Seed and Breeding Research Institute, National Institute of Fisheries Science Eun Kyoung Hwang is a Senior Researcher at the Fisheries Seed and Breeding Research Institute, National Institute of Fisheries Science, Korea. She received a PhD degree at Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Marine Lab., Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. She is currently involved in research on seaweed cultivation and breeding. Works mainly include; Ecological & aquacultural aspects of seaweeds, mass production of brown alga (Sargassum, Ecklonia, Undariopsis and Silvetia) and green alga (Codium, Capsosiphone and Ulva), hybridization of kelp species for strain improvement and elongation of culture period, and strain improvement of Saccharina. |