Environmental/biological specimen banking in Iran as a developing country

International Conference and Exhibition on Tissue Preservation & Bio-banking

July 20-22, 2015 Barcelona, Spain

Ahmad Mahdavi

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Tissue Sci Eng

Abstract :

Developing countries constitute most of the planet area and population. Most of these countries are situated in warmer areas of the planet and so with more diverse plants and animals. These countries are also more exposed to different types of pollution including toxic pollution as compared to developed world. Considering these facts, establishment of biological and environmental specimen banking are of most necessity in developing countries. Some global threats like climate change, pollution, already extinct plant and animal species, widespread ever increasing use of GMOs etc. makes the establishment of more biobanks a worldwide necessity. Iran as a very diverse country for every aspect of diversity is an important country to have environmental and biological biobanking system. This can help the whole Middle Eastern region to preserve both environmental and biological samples for future studies. Iran and its neighboring countries in West Asia constitute an important study region to help the World for these types of studies. To do this accomplished Iran surely need help from developed and developing countries that already have an established biobanking system. Posibility of specimen banking for marine life of the Persian Gulf (marine mammals) and my experience about the Caspian Sea (different fish species and crustaceans) as a source for monitoring and research, bioaccumulation, biomagnifications trends, temporal trends of organochlorine will be discussed. The importance of biobanking Iranian diverse flora as a source for medicins and pesticidal plants will be discussed.