Department of Marine Biotechnology

The Department was established in 2001, with the aim of cultivating professionals needed by marine biotechnology related industries. Because of the rapid development in biotechnology, the applications cover a broad spectrum of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, food processing, environmental protection and marine industries, etc. Biotechnology is acknowledged as having the most developing potential in the 21st century.

Taiwan is surrounded by ocean, with abundant resources and well developed fishery related industries, but due to the lack of advanced techniques, the progress in the exploitation of marine resources is limited. It is essential to introduce and apply modern molecular biotechnology to fully explore marine resources.

Southern Taiwan not only has well developed agriculture and farming, but fishery industry is also an important special regional industry. The university has the most comprehensive fishery-based departments. In order to cultivate specialists for developing marine science, the university established Institute of Marine Biotechnology in 2007. The master program has marine biotechnology as the educational goal and offers advanced biotechnology training to improve the technical performance of the traditional fishery industry.

The research focus on the marine biology, applied genetic engineering, fermentation, immunology, cell biology, microbiology, molecular biology, and other techniques to explore the frontiers of the marine biotechnology.  The teaching and research are mainly for the nurturing of practical biotechnology professionals, specializing in marine organism genetic transfer, marine molecular diagnosis, marine natural product discovery, fermentation technology and applications, cell culture technique, pharmaceutical protein development, etc.

In addition to the practical courses, opportunities of practical training outside the campus are also provided to cultivate students becoming practical technologists.