PLENARY SPEAKERS
Ferid Murad
(Nobel Laureate)
The Stanford VA Hospital, Palo Alto, CA,
USA
Stuart Schreiber
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University and Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA,
USA
Alexander D MacKerell, Jr.
University of Maryland Computer-Aided Drug Design Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Shuji Ogino
Chief, Division of MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital:
Professor of Pathology and Epidemiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA,
USA
Rudolf Jaenisch
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02124,
USA
Steven A. Carr
Senior Director of Proteomics
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Boston,
MA
United States
Vladimir Torchilin
University Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
United States
Kenneth C. Anderson
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215,
USA
Stephen J. Elledge
Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
MA
United States
D.K. Lahiri
Department of Psychiatry and of Medical & Molecular Genetics, IADC, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN,
USA
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
M. Amin Arnaout
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Boston,
United States
M. Iqbal Choudhary
H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270,
Pakistan
Food Biotechnology (Track)
SESSION SPEAKERS
Sujata Mohanty
Centre of Biotechnology, Siksha O Anusandhan University,
India
Industrial and Manufacturing (Track)
SESSION SPEAKERS
Klaus Opwis
Deutsches Textilforschungszentrum Nord-West gGmbH (DTNW), Adlerstr. 1, D-47798 Krefeld,
Germany
Muhammad Nauman Aftab
Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University, Lahore,
Pakistan
Weiwen Zhang
Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072,
P.R. China
Zayniddin Muhidinov
Chemistry Institute of the Tajikistan Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe,
Tajikistan
POSTER PRESENTERS
Gopinathan Chengalath
Department of Biotechnology, University of Calicut, Kerala,
India
Jinhee Kim
Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Wanju-Gun,
South Korea
Medical Biotechnology (Track)
INVITED SPEAKER
Ipsita Roy
Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster W1W 6UW,
United Kingdom
SESSION SPEAKERS
Serin M.S.
Mersin University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology,
Turkey
Thurai Moorthy
President/CEO MultiGEN Diagnostics, North Carolina,
USA
Abu Salim Mustafa
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University,
Kuwait
Zaira Martín-Moldes
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155,
USA
Katja Skorb
Biomaterials Department, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces,
Germany
Armin Eilaghi
Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Australian College of Kuwait, Kuwait city, Kuwait and Seaman Family MR Centre Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
POSTER PRESENTER
Yilkal Belay
School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala,
Uganda
Tayfun Vural
Chemistry Department, Hacettepe University, Ankara,
Turkey
Nano Biotechnology (Track)
SESSION SPEAKER
Shiwen Huang
China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI), Hangzhou 311401,
P.R. China
Lin Huang
School of Biomedical Engineering, Children’s Hospital of Shanghai, and Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030,
P.R. China
Wei Xu
School of Biomedical Engineering, Children’s Hospital of Shanghai, and Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030,
P.R. China
Ru Zhang
School of Biomedical Engineering and Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030,
China
POSTER PRESENTER
Carlos Negro
Chemical Engineering Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid,
Spain
Sun Chul Kang
Department of Biotechnology, Daegu University, Kyungsan,
South Korea
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Track)
INVITED SPEAKERS
Achilleas Gravanis
Dept. of Pharmacology, Medical School University of Crete, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation of Research & Technology-Hellas, Heraklion 71110,
Greece
SESSION SPEAKERS
Johan Nilvebrant
Department of Protein Technology, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, 160 College Street, Room 816, Toronto, M5S 3E1, Ontario,
Canada
L. Rodríguez Vera
Department of Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy and Foods, University of Havana,
Cuba
Sergey Suchkov
I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and A.I.Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia and Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow,
Russia
Walter Schubert
M.D. ToposNomos Ltd, Human Toponome Project, Munic,
Germany
Evan B. Siegel
Regulatory Department, Ground Zero Pharmaceuticals,
USA
POSTER PRESENTER
Swami Shraddhamayananda
Monk in Charge of Medical Unit at Belur Math, Ramakrishna Mission, Charitable Dispensary, Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal,
India
Yanchuan Guo
Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Functional Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
People’s Republic of China
Liying Zhang
Key Lab of Biotechnology and Biosource Utilization, Ministry of Education, Dalian Minzu University, Dalian, 116600,
China
Baoquan Liu
Key Lab of Biotechnology and Biosource Utilization, Ministry of Education, Dalian Minzu University, Dalian, 116600,
China
Zarmina Muhammad
Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad,
Pakistan
K. Skorb
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, "Potsdam-Golm Science Park, Am Mühlenberg 1, OT Golm 14476 Potsdam, P. O. Box: 14424 “Potsdam 14476,
Germany
Kagramanova Janna
FSAEI of Higher Education, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow,
Russia
Plant and Environment (Track)
TRACK CHAIRS
Masaru Ohme-Takagi
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama 388-8570,
Japan
Hong-Qing Ling
The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 West Beichen Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101,
China
SESSION SPEAKERS
Ling Yuan
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506,
USA
Masami Yokota Hirai
Metabolic System Research Team, Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), RIKEN, Tokyo,
Japan
Tomokazu Kawashima
Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, 1405 Veterans Dr., 321 Plant Science Building, Lexington, KY 40546-0312,
USA
Brian Vande Berg
Director of Pest Control Traits, Bayer CropScience, Crop Science Division, Research & Development (Trait Research), 3500 Paramount Parkway, Morrisville, NC 27560,
USA
Qian-Hua Shen
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
China
Robert Bensen
Genetics Group, Syngenta Seeds Research, 317 Hwy 19 Blvd, Stanton, MN,
USA
Junhua Peng
College of Agriculture, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong 524088, China and The State Key Lab of Crop Breeding Technology Innovation & Integration, China National Seed Group Co., Ltd., Wuhan, Hubei 430206,
China
Huixia Shou
State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058,
China
Zhaohua Peng
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi,
USA
POSTER PRESENTER
Estelvina Rodríguez Portillo
Science and Technology School, National University of Itapúa, María Auxiliadora,
Paraguay
Kai-Chee Loh
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Yashmika Jeon
Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Kwa Zulu Natal, Durban,
South Africa
Regenerative Medicine (Track)
TRACK SECRETARY
Michele Goodhardt
Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
INSERM UMRS 1126
Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie
Hôpital Saint-Louis
1, Av. Claude Vellefaux
75010 Paris,
France
SESSION SPEAKERS
Bruno Delorme
R&D Director of Macopharma Corp.,
France
Hae Lin Jang
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
USA
Metiner Tosun
Faculty of Medicine, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir,
Turkey
Jung Park
Division of Molecular Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen,
Germany
POSTER PRESENTER
Jei Ha Lee
Department of Radiation Biology, Environmental Radiation Research Group & Radiation Biotechnology and Applied Radioisotope Korea University of Science and Technology(UST), Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon,
South Korea
Michael R. Doane
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts – Lowell, 220 Pawtucket St., Lowell, MA 01854,
USA
Stefanie Thoms
Institute of Technical Chemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover,
Germany
OTHERS (Track)
POSTER PRESENTERS
Chanikarn Srinark
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Silpakorn University, Nakorn Pathom,
Thailand
Natthason Buranathanasin
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Silpakorn University, Nakorn Pathom,
Thailand
