28^th European Biotechnology Congress

Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology

Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology are part of the core industrial sectors, that drives the transition of the most body of manufacturing sectors like IT, pharmaceutical, chemical, automotive, textile, food/feed, agriculture and many more towards more sustainable and greener economic and environmental models. The contamination of the environment by herbicides, pesticides, solvents, various industrial byproducts (including toxic metals, radio nucleotides and metalloids) is of enormous economic and environmental significance. Biotechnology can be used to develop "green" or environmentally friendly solutions to these issues by harnessing the ability of bacteria to adapt metabolic pathways, or recruit new genes to metabolize harmful compounds into harmless byproducts. In addition to its role in cleaning-up the environment, biotechnology can be used for the production of novel compounds with each agricultural and industrial applications.