Biotechnology World Convention August 15-17, 2016 Sao Paulo, Brazil

Juliana Santana graduated in Biotechnology at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, in which she did two scientific initiations. From scientific initiations she had published two scientific papers. Her master in Bioprocesses and Biotechnology Engineering was iniciated in the year of 2015 at Univesidade Federal de Paraná.

Biotechnology,Bioprocesses Engineering.

Heinz Roland Jakobi was born in Natural Curitiba - Parana, graduated from the Federal University of Parana, postgraduate Student of the Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Sao Paulo [ICB/USP], in the Human Brucellosis research line. Doctor of Health Sciences at UNB. Professor of Saint Luke School. Former President of the National Association of Occupational Medicine Sectional Rondonia. Founding President of the Association of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Rondonia, the Spiritist Medical Association of Rondonia, Founding Member of Rondoniense Academy of Letters. Former Treasurer of Rondonia Regional Medical Council. Member of the Academy of Medicine of Rondonia and Rondonia Academy of Letters.

Epidemiologic Studies, Epidemiological Analysis, Medical Statistics, Epidemiological Statistics, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Cohort Studies Clinical Epidemiology, Case-Control Studies Statistical Analysis, Observational Studies.

Tran Van Lang was born in Quang Tri, at Central of Vietnam. He received his BSc in mathematics (1982) and his PhD (1996) in applied mathematics from the HCMCity University of Natural Science. He holds a position as an Associate Professor at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology in Computer Science, and is the leader of a research group on bioinformatics and distributed computing at the Institute of Applied Mechanics and Informatics. He lectured bioinformatics, parallel and distributed computing and various subjects in computer science. His scientific interests include bioinformatics, high performance parallel and distributed computing, scientific computation, fuzzy computing methods for engineering applications. He also work at Lac Hong University (Vietnam) as dean of Faculty for Information Technology, and he also vice president of Council for Science and Education at Nguyen Tat Thanh University (VietNam)

Bioinformatics, High performance parallel and distributed computing, Scientific computation, fuzzy computing methods for engineering applications

Sonia Malik is working as a Professor at the Federal University of Maranhao, Department of Biology, São Luis, MA, Brazil. She won many awards and recognitions for her work. Her international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. Her research interests reflect in her wide range of publications in various national and international journals. She is the Editorial Board Member and reviewer of scientific journals.

Plant Secondary Metabolites, Genetic modification, Plant Cell Culture, Metabolic engineering, Up-scaling of cell suspension cultures using Bioreactors, Hairy root culture, In vitro production of anti-cancer compounds and How to regulate their production in plants.

Dr. Carlos Prudencio has completed his PhD from Federal University of Uberlândia and postdoctoral studies from University of São Paulo and Universidad Castilla-la Mancha (Spain). He is the coordinator of Immunotechnology Lab of the Center of Immunology at Adolfo Lutz Institute, Secretary of Health of São Paulo State, a Public Health institute with mission focused in research, epidemiological, sanitary and environmental surveillance in São Paulo State. Member of the Post-graduation program (CAPES) devoted to Applied Health Sciences. He has published papers in reputed journals and also has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. He is inventor holding eight patents related to the field of biotechnology of vaccines and diagnosis with expertise in innovation management and technological transfer focused in Health. His research is focused in high-throughput approaches based in phage display technology applied to study host-pathogen interactions and the discovery of targets to develop new diagnosis, drugs and vaccines of interest to Public Health.

Genetics, Biotechnology

Glaucia Pereira is a Principal Investigator in machine learning and bioinformatics at the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines. She is a former member of Imperial College London and a past researcher visitor at the University of Cambridge, where she worked with microfluidics and computational bio-fluid mechanics applied to cardiovascular inflammation. Glaucia Pereira also worked for both the Spanish and the Brazilian government, as a researcher. She is currently applying knowledge from biomedical engineering, mathematics, and computational systems engineering, while leading projects in the field of biotechnology, aiming at advancing knowledge in basic sciences and translational biomedicine.

Computational systems engineering, Biomedical engineering

Professor Christopher Franco's research career combines both the industrial and academic spheres. For 10 years he lead a successful drug discovery and development group in an International biopharmaceutical company and holds patents for 11 compound families. In 1993, he joined the School of Medicine, as a founding academic in the Biotechnology Program. Now Head, Medical Biotechnology, he manages the Biotechnology teaching and research programs. He is Australia's leading actinobacteriologist and continues to discover novel actinobacteria and new bioactives from algae, plant cell culture, mammalian cells and marine organisms. He pioneered the isolation and application of actinobacterial endopytes for sustainable crop production and leads GRDC's multi-insitutional Benficial Microbes Project. He has extensive international experience, workng in the UK, Germany, India, Indonesia, Singapore and China. As International Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and School of Medicine, he manages the Faculty's international collaborations. He collaborates with researchers in Asia, Europe and N. America.

Agricultural biotechnology Biochemistry and cell biology Industrial biotechnology Environmental biotechnology Medical biotechnology Microbiology

Nikolai Zhelev is professor of medical biotechnology and director of CMCBR atAbertay University, Dundee, Scotland. He is also honorary professor in eight universities in UK, China and Bulgaria. Prof.Zhelev has been involved in founding four start-up biotech companies and has worked as head of the departments of Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Proteomics in Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc. Professor Zhelev has published three books in the field of systems biology, cancer research and treatment, DNA damage and repair as well as papers in high impact journals, including Nature Medicine, with more than 1000 citations.

Biotechnology, Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Genomics

ANA CLARA GUERRINI SCHENBERG completed her PhD in Biological Sciences at the Université de Paris-Sud, France; Postdoctoral Fellow (Biotechnology), University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK; Postdoctoral Fellow (Molecular Genetics), Australian National University/Research School of Biological Sciences, Canberra, Australia. Presently, she is Senior Professor of the Microbiology Department of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She conducts biotechnology research on yeast and bacteria, with a view to generating improved strains for various applications, including biomedical products, alcohol production, production of biodegradable plastics, and bioremediation of toxic metals from effluents. She has published 38 papers in reputed journals.

1. Genetic Engineering of Yeast. 2. Biotechnology.

Abdelaziz Tlili is currently working in Department of Applied Biology/Biotechnology Program College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. His research interests reflect a wide range of publications in various national and international journals. Skills: Gene localization and identification, cDNA cloning and protein tagging, genetic Linkage, Cell culture, Cell Transfection, protein extraction, Familial genealogy for disease tracing and gene localization, confocal microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, PCR, Sequencing.

Health Biotechnology, Genetic of monogenic diseases, genetic biomarkers, Bioinformatics, Hereditary Hearing Loss diseases, Pyridoxine-dependant epilepsies, Human molecular genetics, Molecular diagnostics.

Professor Alexander A. Kamnev is a Leading Scientist at the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saratov, Russia). His current research has been focused on the application of spectroscopic techniques in studying biomolecules, biocomplexes, supramolecular structures and microbial cells; spectroscopic detection of biospecific interactions using functionalized plasmonic nanoparticles; bioanalytical applications of vibrational (FTIR, Raman) and Mössbauer (nuclear gamma-resonance) spectroscopies. Professor Kamnev has published over a hundred papers in peer-refereed international journals and has been regularly involved in refereeing manuscripts for many scientific journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, RSC, ACS, etc.

Development and applications of novel spectroscopic and nuclearchemistry approaches in biochemical and microbiological research.

Candidate of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor, Marina Vladimirovna FRONTASYEVA is a graduate of the Department of theoretical and experimental nuclear physics, physical faculty, Saratov State University. Since 1970 she has been working at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, first in the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems and since 1977 in the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics in the field of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). M.V. Frontasyeva is one of the founders of the radioanalytical complex REGATA at the reactor IBR-2 designed for studies in the Life Sciences and Material Science. Since 1997 she is the Head of the Department of NAA at FLNP JINR combining her activities with lecturing on nuclear methods for studying the environment at the Department of Chemistry of the International University of Nature, Society and Man of Dubna. She is leader of numerous international projects co-ordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna) and by the European Union Frame Programmes. She is a holder of several grants for environmental studies from the JINR member-states mostly connected with studies on biomonitoring trace element deposition based on moss analysis. The results of these investigations in Central Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, as well as in Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia, Croatia, Turkey (European Thrace Region) are presented in the Atlas on Heavy Metal Atmospheric Deposition in Europe edited under the auspices of the United Nations. Since 1994 M.V. Frontasyeva is a Scientific Secretary of the Scientific Council on Applied Nuclear Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1997 she was elected to the International Committee on Activation Analysis (ICAA). M.V. Frontasyeva is the author and co-author of more than 300 scientific publications in refereed journals, two books and two patents of Russian Federation.

Nanobiotechnology, Nanotechnology

Dr. Sharma has obtained his PhD thesis in July 2007 from H. P. University, Shimla India. After spending several years of research/academic positions in Brazil, France, Czech Republic, India, Mexico working in the area of nanomagnetism and functional nanomaterials, he has joined as a Professor in Physics at Department of Physics, Federal University of Maranhão in 2014. At present he is an active member of Post-graduate research program at UFMA and actively involved in research, teaching and supervising research students at UG/PG levels. He has been awarded as FAPEMA Senior Researcher grants in August 2015. To date, Dr. Sharma has published more than 54 research articles in reputed journals, 1 book as a single author, 1 book chapter and 4 articles in national proceedings. Additionally, he has attended 28 International and 11 National level conferences.

synthesis of functional nanomaterials and magnetic nano hybrids for magnetic & biomedical applications.

Miao Xiaoling obtained her BS degree in Biology from East China Normal University in July 1984, and Ph.D. degree in Biology from Tsinghua University in January 2005. She worked as a visiting scientist in the University of Wales Swansea, U.K. during 1996-1997. She joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University in October 2005, and now is a professor of the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and the School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology. Her research interests mainly focused on biofixation of carbaon dioxide and biofuels production with microalgae. She is on the editorial board of BioMed Research International and Scientific Reports.

Bioactive compounds from microalgae Molecular biology of microalgae

Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar, PhD recently joined the Department of Biotechnology as Professor of Biotechnology and Chairman of the Department. Prior to his arrival at AURAK he was serving as Vice Chancellor/Professor of three Universities in Pakistan concomitantly a unique honor for any academic leader. He received his Master and M.Phil in the field of Biochemistry from Pakistan and PhD in biosciences from the Drexel University of Philadelphia, USA. He served at various academic/administrative positions in the USA on an outstanding scientist (O-1) visa. Professor Mukhtar laboratory developed an in-vitro model of human blood-brain barrier to study viral neuropathogenesis, and with Dr. Mukhtar as Principal or Co-Investigator, has received several awards from organizations including American Diabetes Association, American Society for Microbiology, Diabetes Trust Foundation, US National Institutes of Health, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. Furthermore, human blood brain barrier developed in his laboratory is extensively used to understand ferrying of viruses into the brain and finding cures for neurological ailments.

Bioinformatics,Public Health.

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Animal biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

George Guo-Qiang CHEN received his BSc and PhD from South China University of Technology in 1985 and Graz University of Technology (Austria) in 1989, he also conducted research in 1990-1994 as a postdoc at University of Nottingham in UK and University of Alberta in Canada, respectively. He has been focusing his research on microbial metabolic engineering and biomaterials since 1986. After joining Tsinghua University in 1994, he has been actively promoting the microbial Bio- and Material Industries in China. Professor Chen has more than 25 years of R&D experiences on microbial physiology, microbial production and applications, has published over 160 international peer reviewed papers with over 3500 citations (H-Index 30) in areas of microbial biotechnology and biomaterials. With over 23 issued patents and 29 pending patents, Prof. Chen’s technologies have been provided to several companies that succeed in mass production of microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). ations.

Microbial physiology
Microbial production and applications
Application of PHA as tissue engineering materials
Applications of PHA as biodegradable materials and as biofuels

Prof. Dr. Mohamed F. R. Hassanien is currently working as a Professor of Biochemistry at Zagazig University (Egypt). Prof. Hassanien obtained his Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Food Chemistry from Berlin University of Technology (Germany, 2004). As post-doctoral researcher, Prof. Hassanien continued his research in ranked universities in different countries such University of Helsinki (Finland), Max-Rubner Institute (Germany), Berlin University of Technology (Germany), and University of Maryland (USA). In 2010, he was invited to be visiting Professor (100% research) at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. In 2012, he was invited to be visiting Professor (100% teaching) in School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russian Federation. Prof. Hassanien published more than 120 papers, reviews in international peer-reviewed journals with high impact factor as well as some books and book chapters (recent h-index is 24). He was participated and invited speaker in several international conferences. Since 2003, Prof. Hassanien is a reviewer and editor in many highly-cited international journals. Prof. Hassanien received Abdul Hamid Shoman Prize for Young Arab Researcher in Agricultural Sciences (2006), Egyptian State Prize for Encouragement in Agricultural Sciences (2009), European Young Lipid Scientist Award (2009), AU-TWAS Young Scientist National Awards (Egypt) in Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (2013), and Atta-ur- Rahman Prize in Chemistry (2014). Prof. Hassanien’s current research interests are chemistry of bioactive compounds and impact of processing on functionality and properties of food components.

Biochemistry, Plant Biochemistry, Food Chemistry, Antioxidants, Nutrition, Lipids chemistry, Functional foods.

Dr. Hedi Ben Mansour, professor at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology Tunis and Sidi Thabet al researcher at Faculty of Pharmacy of Monastir, a PhD in Agricultural Science and Biotechnology Agribusiness at the University of Caen Lower Normandy France and a PhD in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Monastir Tunisia. Currently, it is responsible for the Tunisian master "Industrial Development of Health Products" and president of the Tunisian Association of Cosmetology At age, 32, just registered in the Guinness Book as the youngest coordinator a third cycle in the world ... well that's not all Ben Mansour filed, too, his candidacy for the prize of the President of the Republic in the biotechnology sector particularly relating to health, environment and industry.

Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology.