During the past ten years, researchers in South China Sea Institute of Oceanology(SCSIO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, have collected numerous culturable actinomycetes from deep sea samples obtained from open voyages to the South China Sea and Indian Ocean supported by Nationa...
08 18, 2014
A new book “Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management”, edited by Dr. TANG Danling (South China Sea Institute of oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and SUI Guangjun (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) is recently published by Springer, the world’s largest publisher i...
07 15, 2014
Mesoscale eddies, on scales of 50 ~ 500 km, time scale of 10 ~ 100 days and with advection speed of several kilometers per day, are one of the most striking phenomenon in the world oceans. Eddy-induced mass and heat transport or other eddy-related dynamic processes are all sup...
07 08, 2014
The 2nd Mini-Symposium on Microbial Natural Products organizied by CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology (LMB) was successfully held on June 25th in Guangzhou. Invited by Prof. ZHANG Si, the director of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO)...
06 30, 2014
Chromone derivatives are naturally occurring compounds widely found in plants and fungi, exhibiting potential therapeutic indication. However, few natural dihydrothiophene-condensed chromones were reported. Researchers of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology and Guangzhou I...
06 27, 2014
Toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread in bacteria and archaea, and play prominent roles in cell physiology including altruistic behavior such as phage inhibition, global gene regulation, and tolerance to antibiotics. The cellular targets of these toxins are quite diverse...
06 17, 2014
