The Ecological Security and Biodiversity Conservation Platform was established in November 2020 and is located on the seventh floor of the Guangzhou Marine Laboratory. It is one of the key large-scale scientific support platforms developed by the laboratory. The platform addresses major national needs in marine ecological civilization construction and biodiversity conservation, focusing on three key areas of research:
1.Marine Evolutionary Biology: This includes the study of marine organism evolutionary history, adaptive mechanisms, and the evolutionary developmental mechanisms of key traits.
2.Marine Conservation Biology: This involves the formation and evolutionary mechanisms of marine ecosystem biodiversity patterns, the endangerment mechanisms of marine mammals, marine biodiversity monitoring, marine protected areas, national park development, and international commitments.
3.Marine Biological Resource Utilization: This focuses on the use of marine biological and microbial resources, as well as the biomimetic utilization of marine organisms.
The platform currently houses four comprehensive laboratories and four research and analysis platforms, including laboratories in Molecular and Developmental Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Animal Physiology and Ecology. It also includes research platforms in Computational Biology, Zebrafish and Coral Aquatic Organism Cultivation, Micromanipulation, and Metabolomics. Additionally, the platform supports a Biological Resource Repository and Field Observation Stations.
The platform can meet the experimental and application needs of a wide range of marine biological systems, from invertebrates to vertebrates, including the study of evolutionary history, adaptive physiology, behavioral mechanisms, and the mining and utilization of key biological and microbial resources. It is at the forefront of both domestic and international research in marine evolutionary biology and conservation biology.
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