TENTATIVE PROGRAM

 

DAY 1: Monday, February 18, 2013

2nd Biotechnology World Congress

February 18–21, 2013, Dubai Women’s College, Dubai, UAE

www.biotechworldcongress.com

 

                INAUGURAL CEREMONY 10:00 a.m. TO 11:00 a.m.

COFFEE BREAK: 11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

JOINT PLENARY SESSION

Time

Chairman: F. Murad

Co-Chairman: R.L. Atkinson

Speaker

Title

11:45

12:30 p.m.

Location: Auditorium

Hartmut Michel

(Nobel Laureate)

PL

Membrane Proteins: Importance, Structures, Functions

12:30

1:00

p.m.

Location: Auditorium

Talal Al Zaher

JL

Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar) from Pharmaceutics to Biopharmaceutics

LUNCH BREAK: 1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Location

Lecture Hall 1

Meeting Room: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 2

 Learning Zone A: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 3

 Learning Zone B: Top Floor in Library

Tracks

Regenerative Medicine

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

 

Other Areas / Medical Biotechnology

 

Chairman: J.M. Schwenk

Co-Chairman: Y.-Z. Li

Chairman: G. Striedner

Co-Chairman: A.M.T. Gregio

Chairman: P.H. Daniel

Co-Chairman: S. Tessmer

1:45

2:15

p.m.

Cinzia Marchese

IL

(Regenerative Medicine: Cell Based Therapy)

KGF Rescues Mice From Vaginal Atrophy and Contributes to Non-genomic ERα Pathway

1:45

2:15

p.m.

Alexander Sirotkin

IL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Biopharmaceuticals Discovery)

New Regulators of Reproductive Functions

 

1:45

2:15

p.m.

William J. Rowe

IL

(Other Areas: Systems Biology)

Life Expectancy Studies in Space: Correction of Magnesium Deficits

 

2:15

2:45

p.m.

Alain Chapel

IL

(Regenerative Medicine: Cell Based Therapy)

Treatment with Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC) of Lesions Induced by Accidental Irradiation and Radiotherapy.  Fifteen Years of Preclinical and Clinical Experiences

2:15

2:45

p.m.

John SantaLucia

IL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Protein Engineering)

Counting PCR: Absolute DNA Copy Number Without Standards

2:15

2:35

 p.m.

Lijuan Long

SL

(Other Areas:Marine)

Biodiversity of Marine Bacteria in Deep Sediment Environment of Indian Ocean

2:45

3:15

p.m.

Khalil N. Bitar

IL

(Regenerative Medicine: Tissue Engineering)

Regenerative Medicine Approaches to
Neurodegenerative Diseases of the Gut: Bioengineered Internal Anal Sphincter: A Biologic Plausibility

 

 

2:45

3:05

p.m.

Yu Can

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Protein Engineering)

Comparative Analysis of the Effects of IGF-1 and its Splicing Variant (MGF) on Human Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (hBMSCs) in vitro

2:35

2:55

p.m.

Yuke He

SL

(Other Areas)

High-resolution Linkage Mapping for Heat Tolerance by Whole-genome Resequencing in Chinese Cabbage

3:15

3:45

p.m.

Xin-Yuan Liu

IL

(Regenerative Medicine)

Possibility to Partly Win the War Against Cancer

 

3:05

3:35

p.m.

John Carvell

IL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Biopharmaceutical Discovery)

Insights into Monitoring Changes in the Viable Cell Density and Cell Physiology Using Scanning, Multi-frequency Dielectric Spectroscopy

 

2:55

3:15

p.m.

Guang-Ce Wang

SL

(Other Areas: Marine)

The Economic Seaweed Aquaculture in China

 

3:45

4:05

p.m.

Mehrdad Rafat

SL

(Regenerative Medicine: Tissue Engineering)

Development of a Highly Elastic Bioengineered Cornea: From Research to Commercialization

 

3:35

4:05

p.m.

Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary

IL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology)

Creating Novel Chemical Space from Existing One-biotransformation for New Pharmacophores

3:15

3:35

p.m.

Hilde-Gunn O. Hoen-Sorteberg

SL

(Other Areas)

All from Stem Cell Identity to Growth Laid Down by Cell Wall Control

 

4:05

4:25

p.m.

Khalil N. Bitar

SL

(Regenerative Medicine)

Neo-innervation of Bioengineered Colonic Smooth Muscle Constructs

 

 

4:05

4:35

p.m.

William George Whitford

IL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Antibodies)

Single-use Systems Support Continuous Processing in Bioproduction

3:35

3:55

p.m.

Mohamed Abd-Elaziz

SL

(Other Areas: Clinical Research)

Amelioration of Doxorubicin-induced Genotoxicity in Isolated Cultured Human Lymphocytes by Thymoquinone, Curcumin and L-carnosine

 

4:25

4:45

p.m.

Ekaterina Igorevna Shishatskaya

SL

(Regenerative Medicine)

Devices for Biomedicine, Produced by Natural Biodegradable Polymers

 

3:55

4:15

p.m.

Gong Min

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Diagnostics)

Several Novel Long-acting GLP-1 Analogs Exhibited Improved Physiological Activities in Pre-clinical Development

 

Social Mixer: 4:55 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

The buses will leave for hotels at 6:05 p.m.
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DAY 2: Tuesday, February 19, 2013

JOINT PLENARY SESSION

Time

Chairman: H. Michel

Co-Chairman: Atta-ur-Rahman

Speaker

Title

9:00

9:45

a.m.

Location: Auditorium

Ferid Murad

(Nobel Laureate)

PL

Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP Cell Signaling and Their Role in Drug Development

 

9:45

10:30

a.m.

Location: Auditorium

Jean-Marie Lehn

(Nobel Laureate)

PL

From Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Adaptive Chemistry Bioorganic and Drug Discovery Aspects

COFFEE BREAK: 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Location

Lecture Hall 1

Meeting Room: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 2

 Learning Zone A: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 3

 Learning Zone B: Top Floor in Library

Tracks

Plant & Environment

Business Development / Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Industrial & Manufacturing

 

Chairman: X.-Y. Liu

Co-Chairman: H.Khoudi

Chairman: A. Chapel

Co-Chairman: M. Rafat

Chairman: G. Schneider

Co-Chairman: J.P. Clarys

11:00

11:30

a.m.

Udo Seiffert

IL

(Plant & Environment: Biomonitoring)

Comprehensive, Non-invasive, and Quantitative Monitoring of the Health and Nutrition State of Crop Plants by Means of Hyperspectral Imaging and Computational Intelligence Based Analysis

11:00

11:30

a.m.

Mingde Xia

IL

(Business Development: Partnering Trends)

Open Innovation in Translational Medicine and Diversified Healthcare Business

 

11:00

11:30

a.m.

Hartmut Grammel

IL

(Industrial and Manufacturing: Bioprocess Engineering & Optimization)

Perspectives of Applied Microbiology with Purple Bacteria Driven by Systems Biology

11:30

12:00

noon

Hilde-Gunn O. Hoen-Sorteberg

IL

(Plant & Environment: Transgenic Plants & Crops)

Unraveling Development; Basic Control of Body Patterns and Growth in Plants

 

 

11:30

12:00

noon

 

George Sakellaris

IL

(Business Development: Partnering Trends)

Bioenonomy: From Theory to Practice

 

11:30

11:50

a.m.

 

S. Sivakami

SL

(Industrial and Manufacturing: Industrial Enzymes)

Biochemical Study of a Neutral Alpha Amylase Purified from the Sonicates of the Cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis

 

12:00

12:20

p.m.

Maiza-Benabdesselam Fadila

SL

(Plant & Environment: Transgenic Plants & Crops)

Analysis of Organogenetic Aptitude of Citrus Varieties Following an In Vitro Multiplication of the Rejections of Old Plants of Ten Years

12:00

12:20

p.m.

John Cadwell

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Protein Engineering)

Novel Large Scale Bioreactor Supports Continuous Manufacturing

 

11:50

12:10

p.m.

Alexander Borisov Ratkov

SL

(Industrial and Manufacturing: Bioprocess Engineering and Optimization)

Microbial Production of Amino Acids, Developments and Achievements at the Institute of Microbiology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

 

12:20

12:40

p.m.

Wenzhou Xiang

SL

(Plant & Environment)

CO2 Sequestration Coupled with Large-scale Spirulina (Arthrospira) Cultivation in Full Seawater-based Medium

 

 

12:20

12:40

p.m

Kisung Ko

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Anti-Bodies)

Expression and Glycomodification of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies in Transgenic Plant

12:10

12:30

p.m

Dan Nilsson

SL

(Industrial and Manufacturing: Bio-fuels)

Cost Efficient Low GHG Emission Biofuel Production

12:40

1:00

p.m.

R.P. Dhanya

SL

(Plant & Environment: Biomonitoring)

Studies on the Biocontrol of Phytopathogens of Vigna radiate Using Pseudomonas fluorescens in Sustainable Agriculture

 

12:40

1:00

p.m

Nesrine Salah El Dine El Sayed

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Protein Engineering)

Promising Therapy of Alzheimer’s Disease Targeting Angiotensin–Converting Enzyme and the Cyclooxgenase–2 Isoform

12:30

12:50

p.m

Felix Lenk

SL

(Industrial and Manufacturing: Bioprocess Engineering & Optimization)

Hairy Roots as an Innovative Production System for Plant Cell Derived Active Agents – Current Challenges and Solutions

 

 

12:50

1:10

p.m

Munazzah Meraj

SL

(Industrial and Manufacturing: Bioprocess Engineering & Optimization)

Enhanced Production and Purification of Uricase by Bacillus subtilis BSM-2 Mutant Strain

LUNCH BREAK: 1:10 – 2:00 p.m.

Location

Lecture Hall 1

Meeting Room: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 2

 Learning Zone A: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 3

 Learning Zone B: Top Floor in Library

Tracks

Plant & Environment

Medical Biotechnology

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

 

Chairman: U. Seiffert

Co-Chairman: H-G.O. Hoen-Sorteberg

Chairman: P. Nilsson

Co-Chairman: J.P. Clarys

Chairman: W. Whitford

Co-Chairman: J. Cadwell

2:00

2:20

p.m.

Yi Sun

SL

(Plant & Environment)

Studies on Non-tissue-culture Plants Genetic Transformation

2:00

2:30

p.m.

Andrew Macnab

IL

(Medical Biotechnology: Diagnostics)

Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Bladder: New Parameters for Diagnosing Voiding Dysfunction

 

2:00

2:30

p.m.

Gerald Striedner

IL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Protein Engineering)

Advanced Bioprocess Monitoring Key to Process and Systems Understanding

 

2:20

2:40

p.m.

Habib Khoudi

SL

(Plant & Environment: Transgenic Plant & Crop)

Co-expression of a Vacuolar Na+/H+antiporter and an H+-Pyrophosphatase with an IRES-mediated Dicistronic Vector Improves Salinity Tolerance in Tomato

 

2:30

3:00

p.m.

Subodh Verma

IL

(Medical Biotechnology: Biomarkers)

DNA Damage Repair Genes and Heart Failure: Focus on BRCA1 and BRCA2

 

 

2:30

3:00

p.m.

Ana Maria Trindade Gregio

IL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Biopharmaceutical Discovery)

Bixin Action in Mouth Wound Healing Process

 

2:40

3:00

p.m.

You-Zhi Li

SL

(Plant & Environment)

The Challenges and Direction of Research on Maize Tolerance to the Abiotic Stresses

3:00

3:20

p.m.

Gyorgy Schneider

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Diagnostics)

Concept of Microbial Fuel Cell Based Antibiotic Resistance Determination

 

 

3:00

3:20

p.m.

Sadia Javed

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Biopharmaceutical Discovery)

Screening of Indigenously Isolated Fungi for the Production and Optimization of Cholesterol Lowering Drug Lovastatin and its In Vivo Evaluation

 

3:00

3:20

p.m.

Jinzhong Jiang

SL

(Plant & Environment)

‘Fetus Tea’ and Selection of its Cultivation Program

3:20

3:40

p.m.

Stuart Tessmer

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Imaging)

Applying Scanning Probe Microscopy to Image Electronic Structure at the Nanoscale

 

 

3:20

3:40

p.m.

Lidija Urbas

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Vaccines)

Monolithic Columns for the Downstream Processing and In-process Control of Large Biomolecules

 

3:20

3:40

p.m.

Yasmina El Bahloul

SL

(Plant & Environment: Transgenic Plants & Crops)

Use of Biotechnology in Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels Diversity Assessment

3:40

4:00

p.m.

Xiao-ping Lu

SL

(Medical Biotechnology)

Prediction Model of Hybrid Performance Using Molecular Marker Based on Additive – Dominant effect

 

3:40

4:00

p.m.

Christopher Didigwu Nwani

SL

(Plant & Environment: Biodiversity)

DNA Barcoding: An Essential Tool for Biodiversity Conservation in the Context of Climate Change in Africa

 

Coffee Break / Posters Session: 4:00 – 4:50 p.m.

Shopping Visit: The buses will leave at 5:00 p.m.
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DAY 3: Wednesday, February 20, 2013

JOINT PLENARY SESSION

Time

Chairman: M.I. Choudhary

Co-Chairman: D.K. Lahiri

Speaker

Title

 9:00

9:45

a.m.

Location: Auditorium

Richard L. Atkinson

PL

Role of Adenovirus 36 in Obesity, Diabetes, and Breast Cancer: Potential Treatment and Prevention Options

 9:45

10:30

a.m.

Location: Auditorium

Goverdhan Mehta

PL

Revisiting Natural Products Chemistry: Synergy with Synthesis to Enhance Nature for Human Health and Wellbeing

COFFEE BREAK: 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Location

Lecture Hall 1

Meeting Room: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 3

 Learning Zone B: Top Floor in Library

Tracks

Plant and Environment / Regenerative Medicine / Other Areas

 Medical Biotechnology

 

Chairman: R. Ahmad

Co-Chairman: K. Bitar

Chairman: A. Macnab

Co-Chairman: S. Verma

11:00

11:20

a.m.

Chandraja Rathish

SL

(Plant & Environment: Bioremediation)

A Study on Petroleum Degrading Gordonia GPCVC1 Isolated from Pondicherry Coast

11:00

11:30

a.m.

Peter Nilsson

IL

(Medical Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology)

Proteomic Profiling of Plasma and CSF from Neurodegenerative Diseases Utilizing Antigen and Antibody Microarrays

 

 

 

11:20

11:40

a.m.

Renata Andrzejewska

SL

(Plant & Environment: Transgenic plant & Crops

Induction of Glutathione S-transferase and Glutathione Content by Herbicide and Safener Treatment in Barley (Hordeum marianum L.) Cells in Culture

 

11:30

12:00

noon

Jochen M. Schwenk

IL

(Medical Biotechnology: Biomarkers

Affinity-based Discovery of Plasma Protein Profiling in Disease Biobanks

 

 

11:40

12:00

noon

Silvana Pompeia Val-Moraes

SL

(Other Areas)

A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of the Lipoxygenases Superfamily in Shewanella Woody Strain (Strain ATCC 51908 / MS32)

12:00

12:20

p.m.

Mahmoud Ibrahim

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Diagnostics)

Risks of Biological Oxidative Stress and the Role of Antioxidants

12:00

12:20

p.m.

Tatiana Grigorievna Volova

SL

(Other Areas)

Biotechnology – The Way to the Future

 

12:20

12:40

p.m.

Jan Pieter Clarys

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Imaging)

Data Acquisition with Medical Low Radiation Scanners: The Manufacturers’ Reliability Versus Clinical Application Reliability

12:20

12:40

p.m.

Mohamed Al-Olama

SL

(Other Areas: Clinical Research)

A Method for Continuous Intracranial Pressure Registration in the Freely Moving Rat

 

12:40

1:00

p.m.

Claire L. Chen

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Diagnostics)

Identifying Rare Cancer Cells in Blood Using World’s Fastest Real-Time Camera

12:40

1:00

p.m.

William J. Rowe

SL

(Regenerative Medicine: Gene Therapy)

Long Space Missions and Gene Therapy

 

 

1:00

1:20

p.m.

Ibrahim O. Abugassa

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Diagnostics)

Preliminary Study on Elemental Distribution of Sepia Officinalis Bones Using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis

 

POSTER SESSION: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

LUNCH BREAK: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Poster Session: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break: 2:00 – 3:00

Poster Session: 3:00 – 4:25 p.m.

Departure for Gala Dinner at 4:30 p.m.

The buses will leave for hotels at 9:30 p.m.
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DAY 4: Thursday, February 21, 2013

JOINT PLENARY SESSION

Time

Chairman:  Taleb-Al-Tel

Co-Chairman: R. Kumar

Speaker

Title

9:00

9:45

a.m.

Location: Auditorium

Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary

PL

Discovery of Anti-Infective and Multi-drug Resistance Reversal Agents

9:45

10:30

a.m.

Location: Auditorium

Debomoy K. Lahiri

PL

MicroRNA to Study Physiological Regulation of Gene Products Implicated in CNS Disorders: Discovery of Novel APP and BACE-specific MicroRNAs Important for Alzheimer’s Disease

Location

Lecture Hall 1

Meeting Room: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 3

 Learning Zone B: Top Floor in Library

Tracks

Plant & Environment

Medical Biotechnology

 

Chairman: H.-G.O. Hoen-Sorteberg

Co-Chairman: P. Nilsson

Chairman: J.M. Schwenk

Co-Chairman: F. Lenk

10:35

10:55

a.m.

Rafia Azmat

SL

(Plant & Environment: Photosynthetic Microorganisms)

An Important Role of Carotenoids in Protection of Photosynthetic Apparatus under VAM Inoculation on Momordica Charantia

10:35

10:55

a.m.

Rehan Ahmad

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Biomarkers)

MUC1-C Oncoprotein Activates the ZEB1/miR-200c Regulatory Loop and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

10:55

11:15

a.m.

Sadia Javed

SL

(Plant & Environment: Biomonitoring)

Salinity and Drought Induced Antioxidant Responses in Different Cultivards of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L)

 

10:55

11:15

a.m.

Andrew Macnab

SL

(Medical Biotechnology: Diagnostics)

The Evolution of Wireless Continuous Wave Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Devices for Biomedical Applications

 

11:15

11:35

a.m.

A.F. Ogundola

SL

(Plant & Environment: Bioremediation)

Efficacy of Different Agricultural Wastes (Biostimulants) on Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbon in Crude Oil Polluted Soil in Nigeria and Its Residual Effect on Plant Growth

11:15

11:35

a.m.

Laura Ingram

SL

(Business Development)

The AGBL Group of Companies : Largest Biomedical Gateway to the Emerging Markets of Middle East, Africa and Asia

 

COFFEE BREAK: 11:30 – 12:00 noon

Location

Lecture Hall 1

Meeting Room: Top Floor in Library

 Lecture Hall 3

 Learning Zone B: Top Floor in Library

Tracks

Other Areas

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

 

 

Chairman: M. Abd-elaziz

Co-Chairman: W.J. Rowe

Chairman: S. Javed

Co-Chairman: J. SantaLucia

12:00

12:30

p.m.

Emil Omurzak

IL

(Other Areas: Nanobiotechnology)

Synthesis of Biocompatible Nanomaterials by the Pulsed Plasma in Liquid

12:00

12:30

p.m.

Takeshi Imai

IL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Biopharmaceuticals Discovery)

New Drug Target Discovery with Magnetic Nanobeads Technology-High Performances Affinity Purification for Identification of 15-deoxy-∆ 12,14-PGJ2 Interacting Factors using Magnetic Nanobeads

12:30

1:00

p.m.

Stuart Tessmer

IL

(Other Areas: Nanobiotechnology)

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Conducting Protein Nanowires

 

12:30

12:50

p.m.

John Bonham-Carter

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Antibodies)

Implementing Continuous Processing in a Single Use Facility of the Future

 

1:00

1:30

p.m.

Philippe Hubert Daniel

IL

(Other Areas: Systems Biology)

Raman Spectroscopy Applied to Detection of Pathogenic Micro-organisms: An Alternative Type of Biosensor

12:50

1:10

p.m.

Alain Chapel

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology)

mi-RNA-150 and 7 Regulators of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Action on Colon Cancer Inflammatory Tumor Microenvironment

 

 

1:10

1:30

p.m.

Kayode Isreal Olayemi

SL

(Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Antibodies)

Larvicidal and Developmental Regulatory Activities of Methanolic Leaf-extract of Carica Papaya (Caricaceae) Against Culex Pipiens Pipiens Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

 

LUNCH BREAK:  2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS:  3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

CASH PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THREE BEST POSTERS: 4:00 p.m.

POSTER PRESENTER’S PRESENCE IS ESSENTIAL TO RECEIVE THE CASH AWARD AND CERTIFICATE OF MERIT

 

Departure for City Tour at 4:15 p.m.

 

IMPORTANT: The buses will leave daily from all Hotels at 8:15 a.m. for the conference venue. 

 

PL: Plenary Lecture

JL: Julphar Lecture

IL: Invited Lecture

SL: Session Lecture
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