10^th Asia-PacificBiotech Congress July 25-27, 2016 Bangkok, Thailand

Shri Mohan Jain, Plant biotechnologist, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. He received M. Phil, 1973 and Ph.D., 1978, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was postdoctoral fellow in Israel, and USA; visiting Professor in Japan and Ital; Technical Officer, Plant Breeding and Genetics, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, 1999-2005. He is a member on editorial Board member of Euphytica, In Vitro, Propagation of Ornamental Plants, Emirates J. Food and Agriculture,; reviewer in Plant Cell Reports, Mutation Research, and Plant Cell Tissue Organ Culture. His publications are 130 in peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and edited 41books; invited speaker and acted as a Chair person in several international conferences worldwide. He was awarded Nobel Peace Prize, 2005 in commemoration the awarding to IAEA of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005; also a consultant to IAEA, European Union, and the Egyptian Government.

Plant /agricultural biotechnology

Wynand Jacobus Van der Walt is a seventh generation South African-born citizen. He obtained his BSc.Agric and MSc.Agric in genetics and plant breeding at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; PhD genetics at the University of Wisconsin, USA; and MBL in business at the University of South Africa. He started his career working in government, joined the Asgrow Seed Company (South Africa) in 1967 as director for research and plant breeding. Van der Walt founded the South African National Seed Organization as non-profit company and Secretariat for the national seed industry in 1989, and as designated authority to manage official seed certification schemes on behalf of government, and served as general manager until 2000. He retired in 2002 to continue his private practice as independent consultant on biotechnology, seed industry and IPR/PVP matters. He was also a co-founding director of AfricaBio biotechnology stakeholders’ organization in 1999. He continues to serve on advisory committees for the South African oilseeds and grain industries, and is member of the Agricultural Writers Association and of the Executive Committee of the SA National Consumer Union. His primary focus is on developments in plant breeding (22 years with Asgrow, now breeding indigenous Clivia flowers as hobby); crop biotechnology communication (12 years of writing a weekly column on biotech for an ag-magazine), and 10 years of comprehensive annual research project on GM maize for the national Maize Trust and national GM crop status for ISAAA; media liaison; interacts with patent lawyers on PVP/PBR/plant patents, biosafety frameworks; seed industry issues (a co-founding director of the African Seed Trade Association in 2000, now honorary life member), wrote article for Prophyta Annual 2015 on African seed law harmonization and rendered services on seed issues for 10 years as resource person to FANRPAN. Van der Walt is also member of some 12 scientific and industry associations and a recipient of seven awards. He has been registered with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions since 1983.

Genetic Engineering
Agriculture

Ulrich Stottmeister was born in 1939. He got his Degree in chemistry(1964) and Ph.d in 1968. Currently he is President, ISEB International of Environmental Biotechnology

Waste water treatment, Phytoremediation, Natural attenuation. Unconventional feedstock for biopolymers and functionalized organic acids, Bio-building blocks for chemical synthesis. Renewable feedstock application: Chances and reality

She heads the Philippine National Collection of Microorganisms (PNCM), the position she holds since 2001. She is the chair of the Task Force on Human Resource Development (TF-HRD) of the Asian Consortium for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Microbial Resources (ACM). A fellow and former chair of the Council of Regents of the Philippine Academy of Microbiology (PAM), and former president of the Philippine Society for Microbiology, Inc. (PSM), Philippine Network of Microbial Culture Collections, Inc. (PNMCC) and Mycological Society of the Philippines, Inc. (MSP). She was the recipient of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) award on Biological Sciences in 2013 and the University of the Philippines Alumni Association Distinguished Award for Science and Technology this year. She holds a PhD in Microbiology, MS in Forest Biological Science, and BS in Agriculture major in Soil Science from the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

Bacterial systematics
culture collection
biofertilizers

Prem joined Valagro in the role of Chief Business Development Officer in July 2013 and was since then appointed as the Chief Operating Officer in December 2013 and as the Global Sales Manager in September 2014. He has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Valagro since July 2012. In his current role, he manages the global operations of the R&D, Marketing, Business development and Sales teams, working closely with the CEO on key strategic initiatives of the company. Prior to joining Valagro, he was a Senior Regional Advisor on the Agricultural Development team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle advancing the foundation’s partnerships in South Asia. He concurrently served as a Senior Program Officer and the Team Leader for the Postharvest & Markets group at the Gates foundation. While at the Foundation, he managed a portfolio of grants in the crop management area including biological nitrogen fixation, integrated pest management, evaluation of crop protection products including seed treatment products, as well as managing a group of postharvest & markets in the Access & Markets team. Prior to joining the foundation, Prem was in an executive leadership role managing technology and directing global programs in agricultural research, formulations, and technology assessments at Abbott Laboratories and Valent BioSciences Corporation. Prem has a PhD in Plant pathology/Nematology and an MBA in general business. He has published more than 70 scientific peer-reviewed publications, has over 30 patents issued and more than 50 patents pending and has been associated with the discovery and development of several agricultural products including insecticide, nematicide and plant growth regulators

Agriculture Biotechnology

CHUA Hong is Dean for Faculty of Science and Technology, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong from 2011. He is also Director, PolyU-HIT Joint Research Centre for Water and Wastewater Technology from 2003. He has attended several international conferences and published many articles in reputed Journals

Wastewater Treatment Technology

Alexander A. Kamnev is a Leading Scientist at the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saratov, Russia). He graduated from Saratov State University with a MSc degree in chemistry (1980); received his Cand. Sci. (PhD equivalent; 1992) and DSc (2002) in physical chemistry from the same University. His scientific background included physical chemistry and electrochemistry of transition metal hydroxides. Since mid-90s, his research has been focused on the application of spectroscopic techniques in studying biomolecules, biocomplexes, supramolecular structures, microbial cells; physicochemical aspects of plant-microbe interactions, microbial metabolic responses to stresses and external agents; spectroscopic detection of biospecific interactions using biofunctionalized noble-metal plasmonic nanoparticles; bioanalytical applications of vibrational (FTIR, Raman) and Mössbauer (nuclear gamma-resonance) spectroscopies. Professor Kamnev has been the leader or coordinator of a number of international research projects supported by various grants. He is the main author of over a hundred papers in peer-refereed international journals and several invited review chapters in monographs. Professor Kamnev has been an invited/plenary lecturer and a member of Organizing Committees or Advisory Boards of a number of large international scientific meetings. He has been regularly involved in refereeing international research proposals and manuscripts for many high-rank scientific journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, American Chemical Society, etc., and is an Editorial/Advisory Board member of several international scientific journals.

Application of spectroscopic techniques in studying biomolecules, biocomplexes, supramolecular structures, microbial cells; physicochemical aspects of plant-microbe interactions, microbial metabolic responses to stresses and external agents; spectroscopic detection of biospecific interactions using biofunctionalized noble-metal plasmonic nanoparticles; bioanalytical applications of vibrational (FTIR, Raman) and Mössbauer (nuclear gamma-resonance) spectroscopies

Kampon is an internationally recognized pioneer of Stem Cell therapy who received M.D. degree and Ph.D. degree from Mahidol University where he had an academic career for more than 35 years. He also received training in Clinical Pharmacology from University of Leicester, U.K. and University of Rochester, N.Y., USA. His present academic position is Advisor of Alternative Medicine, Mae Fah Luang University Hospital. He is a member of Thailand’s Medical Association, the Pharmacological and Therapeutic Society and the Toxicological Society. He was the Founder of the Thai Society of Cellular Therapy (TSCT) and is now its Executive Secretary. He is also member of the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT).
Apart from publishing more than 40 publications in international journals, Kampon has spearheaded a number of important research and development activities related to Stem Cell Technology in Thailand, including setting up of Cord Blood and Tooth cell banking.

Stem Cell Technology
Setting up of Cord Blood and Tooth cell banking.

Hedreyda completed her BS Biology and MS Genetics from the University of the Philippines Los Baños and obtained her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Georgia, Athens GA, USA. She was former Director of NIMBB UPD (2003-2012) and is the Head of the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory of the institute. Dr. Hedreyda is a Fellow of the Philippine Academy of Microbiology and recipient of an Outstanding Microbiologist Award from the Philippine Society for Microbiology, Inc as well as an Achievement Award in Biological Sciences from the National Research Council of the Philippines. In addition to teaching and research mentoring in Molecular Microbiology, Dr. Hedreyda is actively involved in nationwide projects to promote and enhance Biotechnology Education in the Philippines . She has Chaired a project aimed at instituting a General Education course in Biotechnology in colleges and universities and has spearheaded the annual conduct of NBECT, National Biotechnology Education Conference for Teachers and the National Biotechnology Quiz Contest for high School.

Molecular microbiology
Industrial biotechnology

Preecha P. Yupapin received his B.Ed. in Physics, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Srinakarinwirote University, Mahidol University and City University of London, in 1981, 1983 and 1993, respectively. He was a post-doctor research fellowship in 1994 under the European Community research project. He has been working with Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand since 1985. He has been a visiting professor with Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia since 2007. He has authored/co-authored more than 850 research papers in Google Scholar database, 565 papers in Research Gate, 435 papers in Scopus database, 45 papers in Pubmed, and 45 chapters and books. He has supervised 101 graduate students and candidates in both local and international universities. He has been appointed as an Editorial Board Member and Editor-in-Chief of 25 international journals. His research interests are in multi-physics, spintronics, nano-science and engineering, nano-medicine and beauty, neuro-philosophy, metaphysics and Buddhism studies. Dr. Yupapin is a member of Thai Institute Physics (TIP), South East Asia Theoretical Physics Association (SEATPA) committee, South East Asian Collaboration for Ocean Renewable Energy (SEAcORE) committee, Optical Society of America (OSA), OSA nano-photonic technology technical group advisor. He got several outstanding works, where one of them has the opportunity to win the Nobel Prize Awards in 2012 on “Stopping Light” concept in IEEE-Photonics Technology in 2009. He has also been a candidate for Eni Awards 2013(Nobel Prize in Energy) on “New Type Solar Cells Device” in OPTICS EXPRESS 2012. Dr. Yupapin is now currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics and Interdisciplinary Research Center at Kasetsart and Kasem Bundit Universities, Thailand, respectively.

Multi-physics
Spintronics
Nano-science and Engineering
Nano-medicine and Beauty
Neuro-Philosophy
Metaphysics
Buddhism studies.

Riad Sedki Riad El-Mohamedy , Prof .of fungal plant diseases , Plant Pathology Department , Agricultural and Biology Research Division , National Research Center , Dokki, Cairo , Egypt. Dr . Riad obtained his B.Sc. (plant pathology) Faculty of Agriculture, Assuit University (1984) Egypt and M.Sc.(plant pathology) Faculty of Agriculture , Ain Shamis University (1993) and Ph.D . (plant pathology) Faculty of Agriculture , Ain Shamis University (1998) Egypt .His Current research includes using fungicides alternatives such as soil amendments –biofumigations –safe chemicals –natural products - extracts and essential oils of plants –soil solarization – biological control – chemical plant resistance inducers for controlling plant pathogens in clean cultivations (organic farming). Isolation and Identification of Plant Pathogenic Fungi and Bio-control agents. Dr . Riad published more than 70 papers in international specialized journal and Professional membership in 7 scientific association committee and editorial board membership in 9 scientific international journal. He is also principle investigator of two international projects and member in 25 scientific projects .Currently involved in research projects and supervising M.Sc and Ph.D. students.

using fungicides alternatives such as soil amendments –biofumigations –safe chemicals –natural products - extracts and essential oils of plants –soil solarization – biological control – chemical plant resistance inducers for controlling plant pathogens in clean cultivations (organic farming).

Sudhir. U. Meshram, was selected and appointed as the fifth Vice Chancellor of the North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon on 5th Sept. 2011 and joined on 8th Sept. 2011. He got his Ph.D in Microbiology from I.A.R.I., New Delhi.

Biological ‘N’ fixation
Biological control of insects
vectors and pathogens
Genetic Engineering and Use of waste products / barren wasteland
Sustainable Biotechnological application in Environmental, Agricultural & Medical Sciences

Yunfeng Zhou is a professor of Radiation Oncology, and he was the Dean of Medical School and the President of Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University. From 1986 to 1991,He studied for his Oncology Diploma（DIS） in Lyon,France. He has been working at the Department of Radiation Oncology and Medical Oncology as a director of Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center , Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behaviors and Hubei Radiotherapeutic Quality Control Center. His main research fields including radiation biology which focuses on the radiosensitivity modified by telomere/telomerase and radiation-guided gene therapy of cancer. Prof. Zhou has published more than 100 papers in international and national journals. Due to his outstanding contributions for Sino-France medical education exchange,the French government awarded him French knight badge(2006) and National Order of the Legion of Honour(2009).

Radiation biology
Radiosensitivity modified by Telomere/Telomerase
Radiation-guided gene therapy of cancer.

Anil Prakash is Professor and Chairman Board of Studies Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, Barkatullah University Bhopal India. He has conducted Post Doctoral research at Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan. He has published more than 60 research papers and 5 research articles in national and international journals. He has edited 4 books, 2 books were published by Springer. He has three decades of research and teaching experience in the field of Microbiology, plant - microbes’ interaction, PGPR, mushroom, mycorrhizal technology and Endophytic fungi from Medicinal plants. He has completed an international collaborating project with Indo- Swiss. Under his guidance about twenty students have completed their doctorate degree.

Microbiology
Plant-Microbes Interaction
Mycorrhizal Technology

Huon Thavrak is Dean of the Graduate School, Royal University of Agriculture. He got his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.

Agriculture Biotechnology

Mohd Basyaruddin Abdul Rahman is currently the Professor of Chemistry at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He received his Ph.D in Catalysis Chemistry in 1999 at the University of Southampton, England. He developed skills in catalysis at synchrotron radiation in Daresbury and Grenoble, protein engineering at Osaka University and structural biology at the University of Edinburgh. His research areas include biocatalysis, protein chemistry, nanobiotechnology and computational chemistry. Professor Mohd Basyaruddin Abdul Rahman is among the pioneer chemists in this country to synergise experimental results with theoretical insights. He has published more than 170 cited papers and 300 proceedings in the wide field of biocatalysis. To date, more than 20 patent applications have been filed in Malaysia and 10 internationally. He has supervised and co-supervised more than 30 PhD and 35 MSc postgraduate students. He won Young Scientist recognition from various bodies including ACS, IUPAC and IAP. He is currently the Founding Chairman of the Young Scientists Network and also being elected as the Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.

Biocatalysis
Protein Chemistry
Nanobiotechnology
Computational chemistry

Nebi Bilir is currently working as Professor in Faculty of Forestry at Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey. Bilir has 28 national and 69 international published papers.

Plant Biotechnology

Arun Sidram Kharat is Director of Academic Staff College, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. He got his Ph.D. in Molecular and Microbial Genetics from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Genetic Engineering
Microbiology

Jolanta Prywer, solid state physicist, Institute of Physics, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland. She received M.Sc., 1989 and Ph.D., 1998 in Solid State Physics from Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland and from University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland, respectively. Since 2011 she is a member of Advisory Board of the journal Crystal Research and Technology – Journal of Experimental and Industrial Crystallography (Wiley). She is a reviewer in many journals, for example in Journal of Crystal Growth, Crystal Growth and Design, Crystal Research and Technology, Water Research, Journal of Materials Research. She was an invited speaker and acted as a member of programme committee in several international conferences worldwide, for example: 2014 – International programme committee for the Collaborative Conference on Crystal Growth (3CG), Phuket, Thailand; 2013 – Programme committee with Profs. Helmut Colfen and Abel Moreno Carcamo for session Biological and Biogenic Crystallization, 17th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ICCGE-17), Warsaw, Poland; 2013 – Member of the ICBEB Reviewers' team and the Technical Program Committee (TPC) - The 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (iCBEB 2013); Wuhan, China, 2013. She is also chairman of Biocrystallization Division of Polish Society for Crystal Growth (PSCG) and a member of the Board of Łódź Branch of Polish Physical Society (PPS). Her publications are 70 in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Elementary processes of crystal growth
Equilibrium and growth morphology of crystals, biomineralization
Crystals induced to grow by bacteria
Biogenic crystals.

Neera Bhalla Sarin has been associated with the School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University as a faculty member since 1986. She has four decades of research and three decades of teaching experience in the fields of Plant Developmental Biology, Plant Biotechnology, Tissue culture and Genetic Manipulation of Plants for Stress Alleviation and Value Addition. She has established clonal propagation of many recalcitrant plants on a mass scale. This includes horticultural plants, oil seed crops and legumes. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed national and international journals. She has successfully completed many national and international projects funded by different funding agencies, like UGC, CSIR, DBT and DST etc. Her recent work focuses on developing drought and salinity tolerant plants. Work in her laboratory is also going on to produce compounds of medicinal value from plants by using innovative approaches.
Neera Bhalla Sarin served as the Dean, School of Life Sciences and is a member of several boards of study and other important Committees. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and has been decorated with several awards, e.g Cochran Award in Biotechnology by the U.S.D.A, U.S.A, George Weston Award by the Association of Common Wealth Universities etc. More recently she was nominated by Indian National Science Academy and South African Academy under the bilateral exchange programme to visit South Africa for starting collaboration between the two countries. Apart from India-EU project, she has successfully completed India-USA and India-Swiss projects. Her students have also been awarded, prestigious awards for their excellent work on value addition in plants by International Society.

Genetic manipulation of plants for stress alleviation
Value addition and developmental studies

P.H.Ramanjini Gowda is Professor and Coordinator Department of Plant Biotechnology, University of Agricultural Sciences, G.K.V.K., Bangalore, INDIA, Received his Ph.D. in Horticulture in 1985 from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and another Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Kuvempu University, Shimoga, 2007. He has conducted post doctoral research at Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA .Under National Science Academy Fellowship he did research on tissue culture of Horticulture crops at Wye college London and Horticulture International,Welsbourne,U.K. Undergone several training programmes in Horticulture and molecular biology at U.S.A., U.K.,Italy, Israel including specialized training on vegetable crops at Netherlands. He possesses an Indian process patent for production of rabies glycoprotein in Muskmelon. He has guided 42 M.Sc. students and 8 Ph.D students. He has been awarded Sir. C.V. Raman Award for young scientists in the year 1997 instituted by the Karnataka State Government for the outstanding Agriculture scientists and also recipient of “Best Research worker award” from the Tuskegee University, USA. He has received Nagamma Dattatreya Rao Desai Award in 2013 for his outstanding contribution to Agriculture. He has collaborations with several international institutes. He has published more than 75 Research papers and 33 research articles in national and international journals. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in edible vaccine production in Plants.

Transgenic Plants for Vaccine production
Disease resistant plants
Innovative research in Molecular Biology

Yung-Chih Kuo is a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University. His research interests are focused on biomaterials, drug delivery system, tissue engineering, blood–brain barrier, stem cell differentiation, nerve regeneration, cancer therapy, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease treatment, biophysics, and colloid and interface science. In these fields, he has authored or coauthored over 130 SCI journal papers. He is an honor member of Phi Tau Phi Society, a life member in various academic Societies including American Nano Society, European Atherosclerosis Society, Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Society, Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Asian Biotechnology Directory, Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Institute of Engineers, Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Biochemical Engineering Society of Taiwan, and Taiwan Biomaterials and Controlled Release Society. He won Young Scholar Award in 2003 and Distinguished Research Award in 2013. He is also an associate editor of J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Engrs. (Impact factor 3.000) and an editorial board member in 6 international journals, and has been invited as a manuscript reviewer for over 50 journals (top reviewer of the Journal of Physical Chemistry (American Chemical Society)), an external reviewer for European research proposals, academic awards, research grants, faculty recruitments and promotions, and financial support of hosting international symposiums, and an advisory board committeeman of international conferences and symposiums.

Biomaterials
Drug delivery system
Tissue engineering
Bood–brain barrier
Stem cell differentiation
Nerve regeneration
Cancer therapy
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease treatment
Biophysics
Colloid and interface science.

He is Secretary of the Secretariat, National Steering Committee for Biosafety, National Focal Point of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Member of Cambodia’s Fulbright Association and Cambodia’s Public Policy Association

Mashitah Mat Don is Professor in School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Fermentation and Process(Biochemical Engineering)

Result oriented with 20 years of experience as a researcher, scientist and extension worker in areas of aquatic animal health especially in areas of aquatic animal health in finfish and shellfish. My core competence helped me in development of different immunodiagnostic kits which helped in easier diagnosis of shrimp diaseses. I had the opportunity to work as a National Consultant for an FAO, Rome and Dept. of Fisheries, Government of Andhra Pradesh project. I am well versed with all the shrimp disease diagnosis which is evident from the publications.

Areas of aquatic animal health especially in areas of aquatic animal health in finfish and shellfish

Digambar V. Gokhale is Emeritus Scientist & Emeritus Professor in NCIM Resource Center, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory. He has 71 publications total of 11 patents

Strain Improvement
Biomass conversion
Microbial diversity and their applications
Enzyme technology, their purification and characterization

Anil Kumar is presently working as Staff Scientist in the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Kumar is a prolific inventor with a research background for developing biotech-based technologies for industrial and societal benefits. As an inventor, he credits 59 patents (granted) for developing product & processes useful in different industries. Dr. Kumar had participated in the development of BOD biosensor which has recently been transferred to industry. Dr. Kumar has also conceptualized five internet-based databases for free dissemination of knowledge pertaining to Environmental Biotechnology. Recently one of his patents has been selected for CSIR Technology Award 2012 and other US patent won Merck Millipore India Innovation Award 2012. He obtained his M.Sc (Biotechnology) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India and Ph.D from Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), New Delhi, India.

biotech-based technologies for industrial and societal benefits

Michael Anjello Jothi Rajan is Director, Bio-Nano Research Laboratory and Dean of Research in Arul Anandar College (Autonomous), Karumathur – 625514, India. He also heads the Department of Foundation Courses as an honorary member. He started his career as a higher secondary School Teacher. The laboratory which had been set up in his institute is one of the best and rarest laboratories in Rural India. His team works seriously on Cancer cells. This lab is short of many good instrumentation but his well wishers in many countries had come forward to help his team. He and his team (8 Research Scholars) are open for any type of collaboration with teams of similar missions. Currently he is a member of the following associations: Life member of Acoustical Society of India, Life member of Geological Society of India, Life Member of All India Bioethics Association, Member of Asian Bioethics Commission (http://www.eubios.info/abamem.htm), Member of Eubios Ethics Institute’s Bioethics Education Project, Regional Co-ordinator of Bioethics educational project in India for Eubios Ethics Institute, Bangkok, Japan, New Zealand , Member in International Association of Bioethics (IAB), Member – Coordinator for Understanding Planet Earth (UPE) programme for Tamil Nadu state, India, Member of the Working Group of Ethics of Climate Change in the Asia Pacific (ECCAP) Project of UNESCO, Bangkok (Co-chair for Working Group 3), Vice-president for India of the Biocosmological Association, Member, Commission on Education and Communication, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Volunteer for popularizing VIPNET science clubs in rural south Tamil Nadu , Member, American Chemical Society, USA. (# 11640), Member, United Nation’s on-line-volunteering Services , Life member of the Ultrasonics Society of India, Member of Board of Directors of Association of Mind Studies and Biocosmology, Chung Ang University, Seoul, South Korea.

Cancer cells
Nano-Science

Dr. Pornkamol Unrean received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota, USA.

Bioprocess Engineering: bioprocess design, optimization and scale-up, bioprocess modelling, fermentation and downstream bioprocess development Biology and Engineering: metabolic engineering, metabolic modeling, pathway analysis, genetic engineering

Rosma bt Ahmad is Associate Professor in Bioprocess Technology Division, School of Industrial Technology.

Fermentation technology of indigenous food
Oligosaccharides and resistant starch as prebiotic, Microbial
Plant enzyme technology

Zurina received her BEng(Hons) in Chemical Engineering from Loughborough University (UK) in 1997, Master (Biotechnology) at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST, UK) and Ph.D. in 2006 from University of Manchester (UK) in Biochemical Engineering. Initially she developed her career as a process engineer in Elektrisola (M) Sdn Bhd in 1998. In 1999, she joined Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) as a Tutor and currently a senior lecturer in Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. She is also an associate researcher for the Biosensor Groups at the Institute of Advance Technology, UPM and currently a member of several international and national professional bodies such as AIChE and Institut of Engineers Malaysia. Her research areas focus on biochemical engineering application on bioseparation using electrokinetics/Microarray Technology, Extraction of bioproducts membrane filtration, Biosensor and also wastewater treatment. She has successfully supervised many postgraduate in similar disciplines and also published many articles in relation to biochemical engineering area.

Biochemical engineering application on bioseparation using electrokinetics/Microarray Technology
Extraction of bioproducts membrane filtration
Biosensor
wastewater treatment.

Prapassorn Bussaman is now a Assiatant Professor at the department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand. The areas of her expertise are Biocontrol science, Mushroom Mite, Industrial Microtechnology, Fermentation Technology, Molecular Genetics, and Tissue Culture. Besides her teaching duty, she is also appointed to be the head of Mahasarakham University biological control research unit which mainly focuses on controlling the agricultural insect pests and mites. Moreover, she greatly served with honour to the community in the position of researcher and the expert in the field of biological product development. Her studies got published internationally and nationally over 35 papers both in conferences and journals.

Biocontrol science
Mushroom Mite
Industrial Microtechnology
Fermentation Technology
Molecular Genetics
Tissue Culture

Yiu Fai Tsang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Environmental Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). Dr. Tsang received his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He further worked as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Prior to joining HKIEd, he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at PolyU. In addition, he is the Programme Leader of Master of Social Sciences in Community Education for Environmental Management, and the organizing committee member of International Conference on Biological-waste as resource, with a Focus on Food Waste, 2014; International Conference on Biodiversity and Conservation of Wetland in South China - From Preservation to Green Development, 2014; and 1st International Conference on Beneficial Uses of Algal Biomass, 2013.

Water and Wastewater Treatment
Environmental Biotechnology for CO2 Fixation and Bioenergy Production
Resource Recovery from Waste and Wastewater
Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering
Odour and Air Pollution Control

Abu Zahrim Yaser is a senior lecturer at Chemical Engineering Programme, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). He obtained his PhD from Swansea University (UK), MSc from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia) and BEng from University of Malaya (Malaysia). Dr. Zahrim’s research mainly focuses on the integrated wastewater treatment and composting and has been leading several projects since 2006. To date, Dr. Zahrim has published 3 book chapters, 18 journals and 40++ other publications. His paper entitled “Modelling and optimisation of coagulation of highly concentrated industrial grade leather dye by response surface methodology” was awarded the Chemical Engineering Journal Top Cited Papers for 2011 and 2012 (Elsevier). In addition, his group won Best Poster (2nd Place) for a study entitled “Macromolecular flocculation of lignin particles” at Third International Conference on Recycling and Reuse of Materials (ICRM 2014), India. Besides that, he is actively involved as a reviewer for several journals. The Elsevier (UK) has recognised him as among the Top Reviewers for Desalination Journal (2010) and Outstanding Reviewer for Industrial Crops and Products (2015). Presently, he is the Editor (Chemical and Environmental Engineering) for the International Journal of Advanced Research in Science and Technology. He was the secretary for the 4th International Conference on Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering (ICCBPE 2012) and the Workshop on Progress in Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology (PWTRT-2013). Dr. Zahrim is a member of Institutions of Chemical Engineers (United Kingdom), Board of Engineers, Malaysia and Malaysia Water Association.

Integrated wastewater treatment and Composting

Teow Chong Teoh is currently a Senior Lecturer at Bioinformatics program, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Biochemistry and PhD degree in Computational Chemistry from University of Malaya. He has 10 years of research experience in molecular modelling and simulation for chemical and biological systems. He has published numerous ISI/WOS journals, has presented research papers in conferences and is holding the Chinese and US patents and has reviewed a number of research manuscripts. He has received research Grants from University of Malaya and Malaysian Government for his research projects. He is also the Secretary of Malaysian Society of Marine Sciences

Bioinformatics

Sarabjeet Singh Ahluwalia is presently working as an Assistant Professor at Department of Biotechnology, at General Shivdev Singh Dewan Gurbachan Singh Khalsa College, Patiala, Punjab (India). He did his M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab (India) and Ph.D. from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (presently Known as Thapar University) Patiala, Punjab (India). He has 20 years of research experience including eight years of teaching microbiology, environmental Biotechnology for graduate students. Dr. Ahluwalia has published 21 research papers in peer reviewed international and national journals in addition, he has presented 30 research papers in conferences and symposia along with three patent in his credit. Dr. Ahluwalia has reviewed a number of research papers/manuscripts. Dr. Ahluwalia has received the Grants from UGC, Govt. Of India, New Delhi and CSIR, New Delhi for research projects. Further, he had developed the technology for the removal of Cr (VI) from chrome effluent. Besides that, he is a fellow Member of Research Journal of Chemistry & Environment as well as a life member of Biotechnology Research Society of India, Association of Microbiologist of India, and Punjabi Academy of Sciences.

Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, Environmental monitoring