The First International Symposium on Marine Natural Products (MaNaPro) took place in 1975 in Aberdeen, Scotland. The First European Conference on Marine Natural Products (ECMNP) was celebrated in 1997 in Athens, Greece. MaNaPro and ECMNP have triennial and biennial frequencies, respectively. The first MaNaPro & ECMNP joint meeting occurred in 2013 in Galicia, Spain. After 6 years, a second joint meeting took place in Peniche, Portugal, on 1-5 September 2019. Ten years after the first joint meeting, MaNaPro and ECMNP will celebrate again a joint meeting in 2023 in Granada, with a primary focus on different aspects of marine natural products research, including ecology, isolation and structural elucidation, synthesis, drug discovery and development, structural methods, chemical biology and biotechnology, genomic tools, metabolomics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Over the past 48 years there have been 17 editions of MaNaPro and 13 editions of ECMNP held in several countries:
MANAPRO
1975 – I International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 8-11 September, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, organized by Ronald H. Thomson
1978 – II International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 12-15 September, Sorrento, Italy, organized by M. Piattelli
1980 – III International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 16-19 September, Brussels, Belgium, organized by B. Tursch and J.C. Braekman
1982 – IV International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 26-30 July, Tenerife, Spain, organized by A.G. Gonzáles and J. D. Martín
1985 – V International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 2-6 September, Paris, France, organized by Y. Kashman and R. H. Dodd
1989 – VI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 3-7 July, Dakar, Senegal, organized by Jean-Michel Kornprobst
1992 – VII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 5-10 July, Capri, Italy, organized by L. Minale
1995 – VIII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 10-15 September, Tenerife, Spain, organized by J. D. Martin
1998 – IX International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 5-10 July, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, organized by Bruce F. Bowden
2001 – X International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 24-29 June, Okinawa, Japan, organized by Tatsuo Higa
2004 – XI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 4-9 September, Sorrento, Italy, organized by Ernesto Fattorusso, Guido Cimino, and Raffaele Riccio
2007 – XII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 4-9 February Queenstown, New Zealand, organized by John Blunt and Murray Munro
2010 – XIII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 17-22 October, Phuket, Thailand, organized by Khanit Suwanborirux
2013 – XIV International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 15-20 September, Galicia, Spain, organized by Carmen Cuevas
2016 – XV International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 29 August-2 September, Fortaleza, Brazil, organized by Leticia V. Costa-Lotufo
2019-XVI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, 1-5 September, Peniche, Portugal, Organized by Rui Pedrosa, Susana Gaudencio, and Vitor Vasconcelos
ECMNP
1997 – I European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 2-6 November, Athens, Greece, organized by Vassilios Roussis
1999 – II European Conference on Marine Natural Products, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, organized by Ricardo Riguera
2002 – III European Conference on Marine Natural Products 15-20 September, Elmau, Munich, Germany, organized by Thomas Lindel and Mattias Köck
2005 – IV European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 12-16 September, Paris, France, organized by Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki and Ali Al-Mourabit
2007 – V European Conference on Marine Natural Products 16-21 September, Ischia, Naples, Italy, organized by Angelo Fontana
2009 – VI European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 19-23 July, Porto, Portugal, organized by Anake Kijjoa
2011 – VII European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 14-18 August, Strömstad, Sweden, organized by Lars Bohlin
2013 – VIII European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 15-20 September, Galicia, Spain, organized by Carmen Cuevas
2015 – IX European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 24-29 August, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, organized by Ruangelie Edrada-Ebel
2017 – X European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 3-7 September, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, organized by Efstathia Ioannou and Vassilios Roussis
2019-XI European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 1-5 September, Peniche, Portugal, Organized by Rui Pedrosa, Susana Gaudencio, and Vitor Vasconcelos
2021-XII European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 31 August-2 September, Galway, Ireland, Organized by Olivier Thomas.