Fuad Fares has completed his D.Sc studies at the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and postdoctoral studiesat the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis Missouri. He is the director of the Department of Molecular Genetics at Carmel Medical Center and associated professor at the Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa. He has published more than 75 papers in reputed journals and serving as a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education. He is the inventor of designing long-acting recombinant proteins and the initiator of PROLOR Biotech company

Molecular Endocrinology Molecular Genetics Apoptosis cancer

Dr. Alahari obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Master of Science in Human Genetics from India in 1983 and 1986 respectively. His Ph.D. in Molecular Biology was awarded by Drexel University, Philadelphia in the year 1994. From 1994 to 1998, Dr. Alahari did a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1998, he has been a faculty member at the University of North Carolina and in 2004 joined the LSUHSC as Associate Professor of the Department of Biochemistry. During his tenure at the University of North Carolina, he discovered a novel protein that he termed, Nischarin. Dr. Alahari has published several papers describing the function of Nischarin. He has served on editorial review boards and study sections. In addition he availed visiting professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Rockefeller University, New York.

Biochemistry of cell adhesion The mechanism of action of Nischarin in tumor cell migration and invasion.

Wilker Ribeiro Filho is a Biologist, PhD in Medical Science, specialist in pharmaceutical technology and MBA in Business Management. He has experience in public policies for industrial development of the biotech industry, project’s management, businesses evaluation and management, innovation, building and managing triple helix teams with technical and C level participants. With the experience from lab tests to higher level management, he has interest in relearning things from bottom and up. Innovative, brings and forms new views and ideas when gathering old information with new ones, some yet to come, to improve competitiveness and results for partners, companies and other stake holders.

pharmaceutical technology

Liliana Rubio Chemical Engineer, Master in Project Management, MBA in Business Administration, MBA in Innovation Management, Specialist in polymer; over 18 years’ experience working on new business, R&D and marketing. Lecturer on innovation & sustainability at universities and the main trade fairs of polymer & Fashion Industry in Latin America, EUA and Asia. Author of several articles that have been publish in technology and business magazines.Founder of PMO Polymer Business Intelligence is a Project Management Office, located in Sao Paulo-Brazil, dedicated to project management consulting, mentoring, covering project planning, implementation and execution through a front-to-end creative quantification approach. Founder of SmartTex Hub ecosystem for the value chain of textile Industry and final applications.

Bio Composites,Nano Biotechnology

Laura de Oliveira Nascimento is a Pharmacist (USP-2007), Doctor of Science (USP-2011), with doctorate Sandwich at Boston University, MA, USA (2009). Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology of the University of Campinas (Unicamp - 2014). He is active in the area of ​​pharmaceutical technology, focusing on delivery of pharmaceutical active ingredients by nanostructured and lyophilized systems.

Pharmaceutical Technology

Alina Trejgell is currently working as the lecturer at Nicolaus Copernicus University at poland and have written many articles in various journals and has her expertize in Micro-propagation of species threatened with extinction and decorative species, The use of in vitro techniques for storing plant material.

Micro-propagation of species threatened with extinction and decorative species. The use of in vitro techniques for storing plant material

Dr Tom McKeon is a research chemist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Western Regional Research Center in Albany.He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.He is co-organizer of the 8th ISBAB Symposium to be held October 28-31, 2012, in the Sonoma Valley Wine Country of California.

His research area is the biochemistry of castor oil biosynthesis and involved in aspects of agronomy, toxin detection and chemurgy of castor to promote its reintroduction as a US crop.

Dr. Meghana Joshi is the Program Director for Biocon-KGI certificate programs based at Keck Graduate Institute, California, USA. Dr. Joshi received her PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago, followed by post-doctoral experience at M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas and Columbia University, New York. Thereafter, she completed the KGI PostDoctoral Professional Masters Degree, a program training PhD's to work in the Biotech industry. She teaches a course in Pharmaceutical Drug Development and works as a consultant to Life Science companies to help them conduct market research and to help in licensing products and forming collaborations, particularly in the area of Biosimilars.

Licensing Products and Biosimilars

Dr. Xiaohua He is a Research Molecular Biologist at the Western Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS. She completed her Ph.D. from UC Riverside, and had Post-doc experiences at Purdue and Cornell Universities. Dr. He received the 2015 USDA Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, Far West Region, Outstanding Technology Development Award for her contribution to the development of novel monoclonal antibodies against a broad range of Shiga toxins. She has served as academic editor and editorial board member of several leading journals and is an author/inventor of over 70 publications and patents, with 14 technologies licensed to industry.

Food Safety,Molecular Tools,Toxin Synthesis.

Dr. Leburton joined the University of Illinois in 1981 from Germany, where he worked as a research scientist with the Siemens A.G. Research Laboratory in Munich. In 1992, he held the Hitachi LTD Chair on Quantum Materials at the University of Tokyo, and was a Visiting Professor in the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2000. He is involved with research in nanostructures modeling and in quantum device simulation. His present research interest encompasses non-linear transport in quantum wires and carbon nanotubes, and molecular and bio-nanoelectronics He is author and co-author of more than 300 technical papers in international journals and books.

Carbon Nano tubes,Bio Nanotechnology

Dr. Yinghua Huang is a Research Geneticist for U.S. Department of Agriculture and serves as the Lead Scientist for the Plant Genetics Program. Before that, he served as faculty member for Oklahoma State University for ten years and now remains an Adj. Professor at the university. He is a member of editorial boards for several scientific journals. He earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Michigan Technological University. His scientific background is in plant genetics and molecular biology, and he has considerable research experience in plant biotechnology, genomics and crop improvement. During his early career, Dr. Huang made a breakthrough in developing a reliable system for producing transgenic larch plant, which represents the first record of genetically engineered conifer tree, carrying the important traits such as resistance to insects and herbicide. Another example of his recent research accomplishments is the systematic evaluation of the US sorghum germplasm collection (> 42,000 accessions), leading to the discovery of important new sources of resistance to greenbug and sugarcane aphids, the most important insects of field crops, including barley, sorghum and wheat, then incorporation of the new resistance into crop breeding programs. Furthermore, using the cutting-edge microarray, RNA-seq and the next-generation sequencing technologies, his lab has generated the differential expression profiles which resulted in the identification of the key genes and the networks that regulate the host defense against insect pests, crop yield traits, and bioenergy quality in sorghum. In summary, the overall goals of his research are to conduct basic studies to enhance our understanding of biological processes in plants, to apply newly developing genomics and biotechnologies to facilitate genetic improvement of crop plants, and finally to improve the production system for a better utilization of agricultural and natural resources.

Plant Genetics, Molecular biology and Microbiology

Liliana Rubio Chemical Engineer, Master in Project Management, MBA in Business Administration, MBA in Innovation Management, Specialist in polymer; over 18 years’ experience working on new business, R&D and marketing. Lecturer on innovation & sustainability at universities and the main trade fairs of polymer & Fashion Industry in Latin America, EUA and Asia. Author of several articles that have been publish in technology and business magazines.Founder of PMO Polymer Business Intelligence is a Project Management Office, located in Sao Paulo-Brazil, dedicated to project management consulting, mentoring, covering project planning, implementation and execution through a front-to-end creative quantification approach. Founder of SmartTex Hub ecosystem for the value chain of textile Industry and final applications.

Bio Composites,Nano Biotechnology

Dr. NSc. Eng. Luciano Pighinelli is currently associate professor of toxicology and genetics research program. Lutheran University of Brazil and Assistant Professor of research program in materials engineering at the same university. Doctorate in biomaterials area for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering at the University of Innsbruck -Austria, in cooperation with the institute of biopolymers and chemical fibers in Lodz, Poland, by Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions - Research Fellowship Programme. Has several papers and patents in the field of regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and radiotherapy. Currently developing research in biomaterials area and biodegradation of polymers used in regenerative medicine and drug-delivery.

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering,Bioactive ceramics,ceramics for orthopedics.

Vlasta Pilizota is a Professor at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, Croatia, since 1979. She teaches number of courses at undegraduate study, Master, Ph. D. and Professional studies, such as Fruits and vegetable processing and preservation, Food Chemistry, Minimally processed fruits and vegetables, and others. She was a lead scientist of many national and international scientific projects. Also, she has worked many times as a visiting scientist at USDA/ERRC/ARS.She is a member of many Croatian and international organizations (IFT - Certified Food Scientist since 2013).

Food Chemistry,Food Processing & Technology.

Fuad Fares has completed his D.Sc studies at the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and postdoctoral studiesat the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis Missouri. He is the director of the Department of Molecular Genetics at Carmel Medical Center and associated professor at the Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa. He has published more than 75 papers in reputed journals and serving as a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education. He is the inventor of designing long-acting recombinant proteins and the initiator of PROLOR Biotech company

Molecular Endocrinology,Molecular Genetics Apoptosis cancer

Satyawada Rama Rao has obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D. degree from University of Jodhpur and taught at the same institution for more than 20 years before joining North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong as Professor of Plant Biotechnology. He has published more than 55 papers in journals of International repute, and is presently a member of Research Policy Council of Indian Council of Forest Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun, India.

Plant Biotechnology,Cellular and Molecular Cytogenetics,Conservation Biology.

Dr. Dev Mani Pandey is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Bio-Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. He has completed his Ph. D. (Plant Physiology) from Chaudhary Charan Singh, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India. He was Consultant to Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, IRRI, Los Banos, Philippines. He has received Young Scientist Award in Indian Genetics Congress-2015.He has published several research papers in peer reviewed journals.

His research intrest mainly focuses on Molecular Plant Physiology, Plant Biotechnology, Functional Genomics, Bioinformatics.

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

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. 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.