Margit received PhD at Institute for Organic Chemistry from TH Merseburg/Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 1990. Her scientific career starts as Researcher at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1986, Project leader at Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research Mainz 1994, Senior Lecturer at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm in 1996 and Head of Industrial Oils, Degussa/Evonik, Darmstadt during 1998-2000, since 2001 she holds Professorship (C3) for Organic Chemistry and Polymers at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University.Received Research Award of the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg together with Edda Tobiasch for “Optimaix Bone Regeneration”

Dr. Margit schulze research interest focuses on Utilization of Renewable resources, Stem Cells on Biomaterials for Synthetic Grafts to Promote Vascular Healing,Polymer Technology, tissue engineering, new therapies, Rigid rod polymers with regularly spaced silicon-centered phthalocyanine units in the backbone, Frontiers in Stem Cell Treatments and Bioactive papers for food.

Faiez has obtained his Ph.D from University of Strathclyde. He is Associate professor and Chair of Biotechnology at McMaster University. Faiez is serving as Editorial board member for The International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE) and member of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. Faiez has published more than 30 papers in world class journals.

Research Interest: Microbial Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology: Industrial Microbiology, Biochemical Engineering, Biosynthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles, Solid State Bioprocess, Optimization and scale-up of bioprocess, Molecular basis of mutation and application.

Patrick Fickers has completed a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from University of Liège (Belgium). After a postdoc at Polytech’Lille (France), he joined in 2005 the Centre of Protein Engineering (Liège, Belgium) as a FNRS fellow. Form 2009 until 2014, he was an Associated Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles and the head of the Biotechnology and Bioprocess Unit. Since 2015, he is a Professor at Gembloux Agro BioTech, University of Liege, in the Microbial Processes and Interactions.Adjunct Professor at Ton Duc Thang University (Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam).

He has published more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and 6 book chapters. His researches focus on the development of yeast and bacterial strains by metabolic engineering and on process development in bioreactor for the production of compounds of biotechnological interest.

Helena Nadais has both a MsC and a BsC in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon University and has a PhD in Sciences Applied to the Environment from the University of Aveiro. She also has a MsC in Specialized Translation from the University of Aveiro. Presently and since 2003, she is Assistant Professor in the Environment and Planning Department at the University of Aveiro. Throughout her academic career she has participated whether as team member or as main investigator in various scientific research projects in the subject of the valorization of wastewater and wastes, and she has recently submitted a patent application on a process for biological recovery of wastes. She is full member of the research center CESAM (www.cesam.pt). With a total of over 65 communications she has 25 papers published in international scientific magazines with peer review, 4 international book chapters and 32 communications in Portuguese and international meetings with peer review.

The research interests of Helena Nadais are centered on biological processes for the treatment and material/energetic valorization of wastewaters and wastes. She has done substantial work on the development of a novel strategy for the operation of biological systems towards the valorization of wastes allowing the raising by around 25% of the bioenergy (methane) production from industrial wastewaters in parallel with the monitoring of the key microbiological groups thriving in such optimized systems. Presently she is focused on microbial fuel cells for energy production from domestic wastewaters.

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.

osé Sánchez del Río Sáezhas been working in biotechnology with photonic biosensors for more than 4 years. He did his PhD in photonic bio-sensing and DNA mutations detection at Madrid Microelectronics Institute (IMM-CNM-CSIC). Then he worked in a private company as a patent researcher in Biometrics and novel sensors and after as a postdoc in the Face Recognition and Artificial Vision (FRAV) group of the Computer and Statistics department at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC). He has done 2 postdocs in the Nuclear Physics Department at the Matter Structure Institute (IEM-CSIC) and was specialized in high energy ions, protons and gamma radiation detection. Nowadays, he is working as a SW/HW testing engineer in the aerospace field for ALTER TECHNOLOGY.

Photonic Biosensors and Radiation detection

Shukai Duan received the Ph.D. degree in 2006 and has completed his postdoctoral studies in 2008 from the Chongqing University of China. Currently, he is a Professor with the college of Electronics and Information Engineering and the deputy director of Division of Science and Technology, Southwest University. He was also invited as a visiting professor in University of Michigan, University of Windsor, and Texas A&M University at Qatar, in 2011, 2013 and 2014, respectively. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and conferences.

Dr. Duan’s research interests include (i) memristive devices and systems: memristive device modeling, analysis and applications in nonvolatile memory and advanced information processing; (ii) industrial biotechnology: detection of bacteria, analysis of odors based on electronic nose (iii) nonlinear systems and circuits: chaos systems, chaotic circuit implementation, nonlinear dynamic systems and pulse control; (iv) Artificial intelligent: artificial neural network algorithms, neuromorphic computing systems.

V.B. Oliveira completed a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2009 and since then has been a postdoc researcher and an invited Auxiliary Professor at Faculty of Engineering/University of Porto (FEUP). She is member of Transport Phenomena Research Center at FEUP. She has authored 22 papers in international journals and published a book chapter in the IWA publishing. She has been invited to review manuscripts in top-ranked international peer-review journals, namely Journal of Power Sources, Electrochimica Acta, Biochemical Engineering Journal and Applied Energy. She was member of the organizing committee of the 12th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference, CHEMPOR.

Dr. Vânia Oliveira research interest focus on chemical fuel cells (Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells (methanol and ethanol) and Hydrogen Fuel Cells), Biological fuel cells (Microbial Fuel Cells) and on the transport phenomena and numerical modelling of both chemical and biological fuel cells. Dr. Vânia Oliveira works on the optimization of operating and design parameters of chemical and biological the fuel cells and on the fuel cells construction, application and miniaturization.

Dr. Nipunjot Kaur has a long academic career of 9 years with active involvement in teaching and research. She has a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Punjabi University, Patiala and received the Ph.D. degree on topic “Designing of protease deficient strain of S. pombe using gene silencing approach.” from Punjabi University, Patiala. Her current research focus is on Molecular Biology and Microbial Genetics. She has published two research articles in reputed national and international journals.

“Designing and validation of Vector construct for secretory production of hPTH in S pombe.” Praveen P. Balgir and Nipunjot Kaur Soni in Journal Punjab Academy of Sciences, Volume 5&6, No. 1&2 Jan-Dec 2008-2009. “Heterologous production of hPTH in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.” Nipunjot K. Soni1 and Praveen P. Balgir in European Journal of Experimental Biology, 3(1):298-302, 2013. “RNAi mediated silencing of host specific protease in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe” Nipunjot Kaur Soni-Bains and Praveen P Balgir in International Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical analysis, Volume-2, Issue-2, 2015, (Scientific Journal Impact Factor: 3.362).)

Dr. Saeed El-Ashram (PhD Vet. Med.), now is an Associate professor of immunoparasitology at Faculty of Science, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt.

Dr. Saeed El-Ashram scientific interests include parasitology, Immunology, Veterinary Medicine. His recent publications include Gel Mapping to Differentiate between Sporozoites of Two Immunologically Distinct Strains of Eimeria maxima (Strains M6 and Guelph), ) Interferon-Gamma Release Assay,Exploring Early and Late Toxoplasma gondii Strain RH Infection by Two-Dimensional Immunoblots of Chicken Immunoglobulin G and M and Mycoplasma gallisepticum MGA_0676 is a membrane-associated cytotoxic nuclease with a staphylococcal nuclease region essential for nuclear.