The track category is the heading under which your abstract will be reviewed and later published in the conference printed matters if accepted. During the submission process, you will be asked to select one track category for your abstract.
Industrial biotechnology includes modern application of biotechnology for sustainable processing and production of chemical products, materials and fuels. Biotechnological processing uses enzymes and microorganisms to produce products that are useful to a broad range of industrial sectors, including chemical and pharmaceutical, human and animal nutrition, pulp and paper, textiles, energy, materials and polymers, using renewable raw materials.
Use of biotechnology to substitute existing processes makes many of these industries more efficient and environmentally friendly, contributing to industrial sustainability in various ways. This paradigm change involves various areas, ranging from the most known ones, such as pharmaceutical and agricultural, to production of materials such as biopolymers and bioplastics. With the adoption of industrial processes based on biotechnology, metabolic engineering has become an increasingly important subject. The goal of metabolic engineering is to maximize the production of compounds that are of industrial interest in microorganisms that act within this context as cell factories through their genetic manipulation
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary topic that provides insight into the process of biopharmaceutical drug discovery and its impact on the practice of medicine. It focusses on the widespread dispersal of recent developments in biotechnological tools and techniques and evolution of novel pharmaceutical drugs.
Pharmaceutical biotechnological research includes studies on the application of recombinant DNA technology, microbiology, genomics, proteomics and industrial biotechnology. Pharmacogenomics is the study of the role of the genome in drug response.. Pharmacogenomics analyses how the genetic makeup of an individual affects his/her response to drugs. It deals with the influence of acquired and inherited genetic variation on drug response in patients by correlating gene expression or single-nucleotide polymorphisms with pharmacokinetics (drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination) and pharmacodynamics (effects mediated through a drug's biological targets).
Nano biotechnology is an enabling Technology that deals with Nano sized materials in which tools from nanotechnology are developed and applied to study biological phenomena. It is expected that nanotechnology will be developed at several levels: materials, devices and systems. It focus on the developmental research such as synthesis of nanostructure, novel characterisation of nanomaterial’s , biosensors and biomaterials in delivery system , Nano crystallisation etc.
New Nano-devices are frequently made by refining the utilization of the Nano-apparatuses that are as of now being utilized. The imaging of local biomolecules, natural films, and tissues is additionally a noteworthy point for the Nano-science scientists. Different subjects concerning Nanoscience incorporate the utilization of cantilever exhibit sensors and the use of Nano-photonics for controlling sub-atomic procedures in living cells.
Marine biotechnology is an innovative field of science Research and technology concerning the support of living organisms with marine products and tools. It is an innovative way to produce genetically modified drugs, food and energy to overcome global demand. The Exploitation of Biotechnology for drug discovery including enzymes, antibiotics, biopolymers and chemical compounds from marine sources.
Bioinformatics is an adaptable field that develops ways and means and programming devices for liberal natal information. As a communitarian field of bioinformatics, science consolidates Computer Science, Mathematics, Biology and Engineering to investigate and deduce natural information.
Bioinformatics is commonly an aegis term for the assemblage of natural preparing that normal PC programming as a piece of their association, well beyond an implication to an unambiguous investigation "pipelines" that are on numerous occasions utilized, prevalently in the field of genomics. Conjoint traditions of bioinformatics grasp the qualifications of hopeful qualities and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Now and then, such accreditations are finished with the expectation of better liberal the hereditary base of sickness, one of a kind modified duplicate, foreseen properties, or transforms flanked by the people. In a diminished measure of stylized way, bioinformatics in like manner cuts to grasp the authoritative teachings in the inside nucleic corrosive and protein classifications, entitled proteomics.
Medical Biotechnology is the field of science that encompasses over the range of areas that target towards various diseases and solutions to those diseases that increase human morbidity and mortality. Biomedical Engineering is an emerging and exciting field that mainly concerned with the development of manufacturing biomedical equipment’s, biopharmaceutical drugs, clinical Researches on drugs and Tissue Engineering to improve the quality of human life. Medical biotechnology is defined as the usage of living cells and cell materials to research and produce pharmaceutical and diagnostic products that help to treat and prevent human diseases. Medical Biotechnology is the application of exciting advances in molecular and cell biology to medicine only.
The research in the areas of food and nutrition is expanding rapidly with new knowledge to develop diet–based strategies and policies to address the problems of malnutrition including undernutrition as well as overnutrition, to design diets and therapeutic functional food- based formulations for better health care and wholesomeness and understanding the molecular aspect of interaction between human-food using multiple “omics” technologies. Major strategy to make diets nutritionally more rewarding is through improved food processing, technology-oriented high-end research on mechanisms related to health benefits of food, and appropriate evidence-based fortification.
Agricultural biotechnology is an area of agricultural Science associated with the involvement of scientific tools and techniques such as agronomy, crop science and protection, entomology, agriculture machinery used to modify and improve living organisms
Agricultural biotechnology is the application of processes for the protection and restoration of the quality of the environment. The aim of environmental biotechnology is to prevent, arrest and reverse environmental degradation through the appropriate use of biotechnology in combination with other technologies such as Bioremediation .environmental biotechnology can make a significant contribution to sustainable development where the wastes can be minimized & modified, either by recycling to make new products, or by purifying so that the end product is less harmful to the environment. Replacing chemical materials and processes with biological technologies can reduce environmental damage.
Biochemistry is the branch of science that explores the chemical processes within and related to living organisms. It is a laboratory-based science that brings together biology and chemistry. By using chemical knowledge and techniques, biochemists can understand and solve biological problems.
Biochemistry focuses on processes happening at a molecular level. It focuses on what’s happening inside our cells, studying components like proteins, lipids and organelles. It also looks at how cells communicate with each other, for example during growth or fighting illness. Biochemists need to understand how the structure of a molecule relates to its function, allowing them to predict how molecules will interact.
Molecular modelling has become a valuable and essential tool to medicinal chemists in the drug design process. Molecular modelling designates the generation, manipulation or representation of three-dimensional structures of molecules and associated physico-chemical properties. The aim of this review is to give an outline of studies in the field of medicinal chemistry in which molecular modelling has helped in the discovery process of new drugs.
The traditional way of drug discovery is the experimental screening of large collections of chemicals against a biological target (high-throughput screening or HTS) for identifying new lead compounds. The application of rational, structure-based drug design is proven to be more capable than the traditional way of drug discovery since it aims to understand the molecular basis of a disease and utilizes the knowledge of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the biological target in the process. State of the art structure-based drug design methods include virtual screening and de novo drug design; these serve as an efficient, alternative approach to HTS.
Genetic engineering is the artificial process of genetic modification, manipulation, and recombination of DNA or other nucleic acid molecules in order to enhance or modify the characteristics of an individual organism. Genetic engineering can be applied to the study of diseases in humans and collection of human genetic sequences that could provide a complete record for inheritance of healthy individuals. Genetically modified bacteria are frequently used for generating industrial chemicals. A large multitude of organic chemicals are being synthesised at large scales with the help of genetically engineered microorganisms. An important application of genetic engineering is to modify the genotype of crop plants to make them more nutritious, productive, protein rich, disease and abiotic stress resistant, and less fertilizer consuming. Genetic engineering and plant tissue culture techniques are used to produce high yielding cereals, pulses and vegetable crops.
Synthetic Biotechnology is a relatively new field in biomedical research. It focuses on engineering new or modified signalling proteins to create desired signalling pathways in the cell. Every living cell is an extremely complex machine expressing thousands of different proteins. Due to superb regulation, many cells, such as photoreceptors and other neurons in vertebrates, can live for decades. Cells can also self-reproduce by division, where both daughter cells are perfectly viable. Natural selection (the “blind watchmaker”, to use Dawkins’ expression) spent hundreds of millions of years to achieve this perfection. Due to elucidation of the intricacies of cellular regulatory mechanisms we can now play evolution on our time scale: re-design proteins and signalling pathways to achieve our ends.
Synthetic Biology is a novel field that finds its origin at the intersection of biology and engineering. It involves designing and construction of biological systems or devices that can be applied in varied domains to get specified results. It’s a multidisciplinary effort made by scientists to understand the functioning of biological organisms, cells & genes and implementation of artificial genetic processes to give specific characteristics to an organism. It can even be used to develop a completely new biological system.
Biotechnology has been applied as a valuable tool to produce useful bio-based products from non-petrochemical renewable resources. Biologically produced polymers present advantages related with the biodegradability, performance, cheapness of substrate and defined structural variability. Advances in protein engineering technology and the environmental and economic requirements contribute for the continuous search of acceptable biotechnological solutions for these areas, including, polymer and textile, medical, pharmaceutical, among others. New trends and strategies have been highlighted in recent studies leading to significant advances in enzyme biocatalysis.
Forest genomics and biotechnology, disciplines that study the genetic composition of trees and the methods required to modify them, began over a quarter of a century ago with the development of the first genetic maps and establishment of early methods of genetic transformation. Genome analyses of tree populations have uncovered genes involved in adaptation and response to biotic and abiotic stress. Genes that regulate growth and development have been identified, and in many cases their mechanisms of action have been described. Genetic transformation is now widely used to understand the roles of genes and to develop germplasm that is more suitable for commercial tree plantations.
DNA polymerases are core tools for molecular biology including PCR, whole genome amplification, DNA sequencing and genotyping. Research has focused on discovery of novel DNA polymerases, characterization of DNA polymerase biochemistry and development of new replication assays. These studies have accelerated DNA polymerase engineering for biotechnology. For example, DNA polymerases have been engineered for increased speed and fidelity in PCR while lowering amplification sequence bias. Inhibitor resistant DNA polymerase variants enable PCR directly from tissue (i.e. blood). The Frontiers in Microbiology Research Topic on DNA polymerases in Biotechnology aims to capture current research on DNA polymerases and their use in emerging technologies.
Microalgae are photosynthetic unicellular microorganisms that have colonized a wide range of freshwater and marine ecosystems. All algae species can potentially accumulate energy-rich molecules such as oils and polysaccharides, besides having the capacity to produce protein-rich biomass, depending on the species and environmental conditions. Microalgae have attracted high interest for their potential to be cultivated as energy feedstock even in non-arable land. Metabolically engineered microalgae have already been used to synthesize high value products. Studies focus on recent findings on biotechnological applications of microalgae in order to overcome limitations to produce high value products and biofuels.
Epigenetics is a new field that explains gene expression at the chromatin structure and organization level. Three principal epigenetic mechanisms are known and hundreds of combinations among them can develop different phenotypic characteristics. DNA methylation, histone modifications and small RNAs have been identified, and their functions are being studied in order to understand the mechanisms of interaction and regulation among the different biological processes in plants.
Epigenetic mechanisms are about plant gene regulation and phenotype are modified, is a major topic to develop in the near future in order to increase crop productivity. Thus, the importance of epigenetics in improving crop productivity is undoubtedly growing.
Environmental pollution including CO2 emission is already a major global issue mainly due to increasing population, rapid industrialization, urbanization and fast exploitation of natural resources including minerals and petroleum. Pollutants in any physical, chemical and biological forms are detrimental to ecosystems at different functional levels. The present remediation technologies are not efficient enough to treat the pollutants to acceptable level. Thus, various researchers are working on advanced bioremediation approaches as an emerging technology for the treatment of contamination in various ecosystems.
Other emerging bioremediation methods include electro bioremediation, microbe-assisted phytoremediation, genetic recombinant technologies in enhancing plants in accumulation of inorganic metals and metalloids as well as degradation of organic pollutants, protein-metabolic engineering to enhance bioremediation efficiency, nanobiotechnology, system biology to bioremediation and so on.
The application of biotechnology in waste management is very important in views of its economic and environment benefits. Using microorganism in the treatment of industrial, mining and mineral water etc. Biotechnology often gets a bad reputation as most of us have linked it with the use in agriculture and genetically modified crops, also known as agritech. But there is much more to biotechnology – it has applications in environmental management and medicine, among others.
One of the most promising uses of biotechnology is waste management. biotechnology involves “the integration of natural sciences and engineering in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services.
Copyright © All Rights Reserved