Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Professor Thomaz - Soccol is Research Fellow of CNPq - Level 1A in the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. She graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal University of Paraná (1978), Master of Science (Biochemistry) from the Federal University of Paraná (1981) and Ph.D. in Parasitologie Faculte de Medecine - Universite Montpellier I - France (1993) and Post Doctorate in Parasitologie moleculaire the Institut de Recherche pour le Development, France, 1998. Professor Thomaz-Soccol is senior professor and heads the Centre for Molecular Biology from PhD program of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology at Universidade Federal do Paraná. She has experience in the area of Parasitology and Biotechnology. She has supervised more than 100 masters and doctors, created the MSc and PhD in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology at the UFPR, Curitiba and Industrial Biotechnology at the Positive University, Curitiba. Her main focus is the area of the development of biotechnological inputs for human and veterinary immunodiagnostic and vaccine compositions, and related to infectious parasitic diseases. She has 492 publications/communications, which include 10 patents and design copyrights, 04 books, 31 book chapters, and 240 original and review papers, with h index of 28 and > 5422 citation (Google Scholar). Professor Ashok Pandey is currently Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow. He is HSBS National Innovation Chair (Biotechnology) and is/has been Visiting/Distinguished Professor in many countries. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth & energy, etc. Prof Rodrigo R Resende graduated in Pharmacy, Biochemistry (2002) and Biological Sciences (2003) from the Federal University of Alfenas, Ph.D. (Biochemistry) from the University of São Paulo (2007) and Post-Doctorate in Biophysics (2008) and in Physics of Nanomaterials (2009). Head of the Cell Signaling and Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, Adjunct Professor Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Federal University of Minas Gerais. Founding President of Brazilian Society for Cell Signaling and Founding President of Nanocell Institute, a non-profit organization for researches development, sciences and education promotion in Brazil (www.institutonanocell.org.br), also he was the founder and creator of the popular science journal Nanocell News (www.nanocellnews.com.br). He created the MSc in Biotechnology at UFSJ, Minas Gerais. His research expertise is in the areas of biochemical technology, nanobiotechnology, cell signaling, stem cells differentiation, direct reprogramming somatic cells and tissue engineering. He has published over than 75 papers, six books, 23 book chapters and has nine patents. He has supervised 14 master, doctors and pos-doctors.

Section A: Immunotechnology 1. Cytokines 2. Monoclonal antibodies 3. Interferons 4. Gene therapies 5. An 'omics approach towards CHO cell engineering.

Section B: Vaccines and Vaccinology 6. Progress in vaccinology 7. Viral recombinant vaccines 8. Bacterial recombinant vaccines 9. Rickettsial recombinant vaccines 10. Parasites recombinant vaccines 11. Vector-borne vaccines 12. Vaccines for the neglected diseases 13. Virus-like particles produced in plants as potential vaccines 14. Veterinary vaccines 15. New adjuvant in vaccinology

Section C: Combinatorial Libraries 16. SELEX 17. Synthetic Peptide Libraries 18. Phage display: concept, innovations, applications and future.

Section D: Gene and Cell Therapy 19. Human adult stem cells from diverse origins: an overview from multiparametric immunophenotyping to clinical applications 20. Efficient Generation of Human iPSCs by a Synthetic Self-Replicative RNA 21. Expression of functional human hormones in a gene therapy model 22. Synthetic-biology on engineering bacteria to produce drugs 23. Non-Coding RNAs: Multi-Tasking Molecules in the Cell.

Section E: Tissue Engineering 24. Reprogramming of mesenchymal stem cells derived from iPSCs seeded on biofunctionalized scaffold for tissue engineering. 25. Scale/topography of Substrates Surface Resembling Extracellular Matrix for Tissue Engineering 26. Regeneration and bioengineering of transplantable abdominal organs: current status and future challenges.

Section F: Infectious and Parasitic Diseases 27. Biotechnology applied to parasitizes diseases diagnosis: an overview 28. Biotechnology applied to infectious diseases diagnosis: an overview 29. Biopharmaceuticals and biosimilars.