^12th EuroBiotechnology Congress November 7-9, 2016 Alicante, Spain

Thomas McKeon has received his PhD in Biochemistry at UC Berkeley with Postdoctoral Research in Plant Biochemistry at UC Davis. He has over 100 publications, mostly in Plant Lipid Enzymology and Molecular Biology. He is an Editor and author for the book chapter “Industrial Oil Crops”. He is an Editor for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (BAB), a Board Member for American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) Biotechnology Division and International Society for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (ISBAB). He has organized conferences for ISBAB and for US-Japan Natural Resources (UJNR) Food and Agriculture Panel.

Biocatalysis, Plant Biochemistry , Agricultural Biotechnology , Industrial Oil Crops

Stefan Selbert achieved his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried and holds a certificate in business administration. He also functions as an evaluator in Brussels for EU-FP7-PEOPLE and EUREKA Eurostar programs and is your primary contact point for the initiation of co-operative projects.

ES-cell technology, in-vitro-differentiation, as well as in the generation, the analysis and the exploitation of animal models of human disease.

Prabir K. Mandal, Ph.D. (Genetics) is a full Professor at Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, FL. He joined EWC as an Associate Professor of Biology in 2008 and served as the Interim Chair of the Biology Department until 2010. Dr. Mandal initiated and made an articulation agreement between EWC-Life University and EWC-Palmer College of Chiropractic for a dual degree i.e. B.S. in Biology and Doctor of Chiropractic for EWC students majoring in biology. He serves an instrumental role in getting our students into the summer internship for Bioinformatics at Mississippi Valley State University and for the Florida Alliance for Health Professions Diversity. He serves as the Chair of the Institutional Review Board of EWC, executive members of the editorial board of a few peer reviewed journals of international repute. He has been awarded with the Distinguished Professor of the College during 2012-2013 and President’s Ideal Faculty in 2010 for excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, service, adhering to policy and for taking initiative to advance the college through program development.

Genetics

Seyed Ali Ravanfar obtained his PhD from the University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia under the Academic Grant Scholarship Award

Research interest in plant biotechnology focuses on in vitro technology, genetic transformation and genome editing. He is active in publishing his research findings in journals of international repute.

Jose M. Guisan is full Professor at Spanish Research Council (CSIC) since 2001. He obtained Ph. D. in Biochemistry from University Autónoma of Madrid in 1979. He has published more than 400 papers in books and Journals (in more than 90 % as corresponding author) , 25 patent applications, and 36 PhD Theses supervised, 200 foreign students supervised.

Enzyme Engineering
Engineering of Enzyme Biotransformations

Gassan Hodaifa Meri Food Engineer (Albaath University, Syria), Chemical Engineer (Granada University, Spain) and Dr. by University of Jaén (Spain) in the Doctoral Program: Biotechnology and Agricultural Engineering. His research began in the year 1997 with a Doctoral Scholarship to perform in Spain, has joined to the research group “Bioprocesses TEP-138” (Government of Andalusia) and he work in the investigation lines of Biotechnology of Microalgae, Industrial and Urban Wastewater Treatment, Chemical Oxidation, Membrane Technology, Adsorption processes, Pesticides Removal, and Biotechnology of Enzymes. Biotechnology of microalgae is of great interest to the industry as a source of food, biofuels, pharmaceutical production, application in bioremediation, CO2 sequestration (greenhouse effect) ... After the experimental part of his Doctoral Thesis (2002) he worked with the group “Chemical Processes and Agri-Food Technology TEP-807” (Government of Andalusia), to develop a new technology for olive oil mill wastewaters (from two-phase decanting process) treatment. Currently participates in developing a new line of research entitled “Nematode biomass production in bioreactors” in collaboration with the Genetics area of Pablo de Olavide University. Participated in 17 research projects (European, National, regional, and with companies), with which it has signed several contracts for research. As a result of this research activities has been published 40 articles in journals included in SCI, 1 patent, 2 books, 19 book chapters, and has participated in 73 Congress are most international first class in scope. He has designed, installed and automated Industrial Pilot Plant of Wastewater Treatment for olive-oil mill wastewaters from two phase decanting process with daily treated water capacity 3-5 m3/h. It has been repeatedly Associate Professor (University of Jaén), and Assistant Professor at the University of Jaén (05/06) and the Complutense University of Madrid (06/09). Now he works in Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain) in the Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering Department/Chemical Engineering Area as Lecturer.

Biotechnology of Microalgae
Industrial and Urban Wastewater Treatment
Chemical Oxidation
Biotechnology of Enzymes
Membrane Technology
Adsorption processes
Pesticides Removal
Biomass production
Bio Reactor design
Olive oils industry

Francisca Mulero Aniorte is Head at Molecular Imaging Unit at the CNIO, Spain. She obtained her MD Doctor in Medicine and Surgery from University of Alicante, Spain. She has been serving as head since 2007in Imaging unit and has many research articles published in repute journals

Molecular Imaging

Jan szopa-skorkowski is currently working as Professor in Department of Biochemistry Genetic, University of Wrocław, Poland. Jan szopa-skorkowski international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. His research interests reflect wide range of publications in various national and international journals.

Biochemistry, Genetics

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

Georgios Skretas graduated from the School of Chemical Engineering of the National technical University of Athens (Greece) in 1998 and received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University (USA) in 2006. He then moved on to the University of Texas at Austin (USA) to carry out post-doctoral research training under the guidance of Prof. George Georgiou. Since 2009, Dr. Skretas has been the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Enzyme & Synthetic Biotechnology at the Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry & Biotechnology of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Greece), where he currently holds the rank of Research Assistant Professor.

Protein misfolding and aggregation. Molecular evolution of compounds with potentially therapeutic effects against protein misfolding diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and certain forms of cancer. Development of novel protein-based tools for applications in synthetic biology. Production of hard-to-express recombinant proteins, such as human integral membrane proteins, in microbial cells. Discovery of thermostable hydrolytic enzymes of industrial interest using metagenomic approaches and directed protein evolution. Development of biosensors of protein conformations and dynamics.

Dr.D.H.Tejavathi, Professor(Retd.) is working as UGC BSR- FACULTY FELLOW in the Department of Botany, Bangalore University, India. She has published 80 research articles in various national and international journals and completed 8 research projects funded by DST, CSIR, BU-UGC and MoEF, India. She has successfully guided 22 research students for Ph.D degree and 15 students for M.Phil degree. She was conferred with an award ‘Merit of Excellence’ for outstanding contribution to the Medicinal plant research during the 4th international conference on Medicinal plants and herbal products held at John Hopkins University, Rockville, M.D, USA,2012

Biotechnology, botany, Medicinal Plants

Hanan I. Malkawi had her bachelor degree in Biological Sciences at Yarmouk University-Jordan, and then she was offered a scholarship from Yarmouk University to get her M.Sc in Bacteriology & Public and then doctorate degree in Microbiology & Molecular Biology both at Washington State University-USA, after which she returned to Jordan and appointed as professor at Yarmouk University. She has been heavily involved in research lines for more than 25 years in biotechnology and bio-nanotechnology and their applications in environment, health, agriculture, microbiology, food & industry. Also research interests in microbial diversity, and bioremediation. She has over 70 published papers in peer reviewed international scientific journals and outstanding teaching and supervision activities at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has been invited speaker and member of the organizing committees in numerous International Congresses, Symposia and Forums and participated and gave talks in more than 90 conferences and workshops world-wide. She received several awards and fellowships and is an active member in several national and international committees, associations & organizations.

Biotechnology
Bio-nanotechnology
Microbiology
Agriculture,