Dr Monia EL Bour is PhD in Aquatic Microbiology (Molecular Biology and Genetics) and expert on “Aquatic Biotechnology, Microbiology, Bio monitoring and Bioremediation and bio-valorization of aquatic micro-organisms. Chairwoman in the CIESM of Marine Microbiology and Biotechnology Committee C4/(www.ciesm.org). She’s Member of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC) The main activities are aquatic microbial systematic and studies and cytological and molecular screening and extraction of natural products project studies in regional Mediterranean area. She still concerned in continental and marine benthic communities assessment and fish diseases and bioremediation. Ongoing specific projects include bio monitoring for different marine ecosystems: microbial communities and their potential biotechnological applications for (i) biodegradation (bioremediation) or (ii) antifouling. Author and co-author of more than 200 international and national publications and director and participant in more than 23 projects aimed in health, bio-monitoring and bioremediation of aquatic organisms since 1994. Director of more than fifty masters and twenty thesis documents in aquatic sciences research, biotechnology microbiology and environment. Lecturer in several hundred conferences and communications in national and international scientific meetings and courses and reviewer of 30 international journals focusing in aquatic sciences research, biotechnology microbiology and environment. Member of five Non-Governmental Associations in Marine Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology and two international Associations of Microbiology (SFM) and and Marine Mediterranean Commission of Marine Sciences (CIESM)