Conference Scope and Broad Topics

The conference will cover all aspect /issues related or collateral to bioprocessing in its broader meaning as specified above. It also aims to focus deliberations on development and advancement of sustainable products and viable processes related to food, nutrition, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and chemicals, vaccines, flavors, fragrances, phytochemicals, biogenic structural materials, probiotics, prebiotics, nutrient fortification, synthetic biology, industrial enzymes, biotransformation, chemical and pyrolytic transformation of biomass, green chemistry, catalytic chemistry, process integration, biorefinery, biometallurgy, biopesticides, natural products of plant, animal or microbial origin, agri-chemicals, biogenic dyes, resins, gums, fibre etc.


The conference is relevant to a wide spectrum of researchers from diverse disciplines like (but not limited to) biology and biotechnology, synthetic and systems biology, genomics and metagenomics, microbial and metabolic engineering, molecular and computational biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, biomaterials engineering and environmental engineering. Science and major domains of bioproduct-centric discussion aimed at the conference are:

  1. Biomass Processing
  2. Biomaterials Engineering
  3. Biopharmaceuticals & Vaccines
  4. Bio-Process/chemical process integration/consolidation
  5. Bioresource Processing
  6. Bio-value from Processing Byproducts
  7. Biosimilars and Biosubstitutes
  8. Catalytic Processes for Bioproducts
  9. Computronal Biology for Bioproducts
  10. Downstream Processing & Product Quality
  11. Enzymes Engineering
  12. Farm Gate Processing-Farmer Centric Innovations
  13. Fermentation and Cell Culture Products
  14. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Chemistry
  15. Industrial Enzymes
  16. Metabolic Engineering for Bioproducts
  17. Metabolic Pathway Engineering
  18. Metabolic Product Pathways
  19. Nutraceuticals and Functional Food Formulations
  20. Preliminary Processing of Biomass for Precursors-Value Densification
  21. Process Up-Scaling and Economization
  22. Processes & Formulations for Food and Nutrition.
  23. Processes & Products for Environmental Health
  24. Processes & Products for Soil Health
  25. Resource Recovery
  26. Synthetic & Systems Biology for Bioproducts
Important Dates
Last date of Abstract submission Nov 05, 2016
Decision on abstract acceptance Nov 10, 2016
Registration last date for BPI-2016 Conference Nov 15, 2016

Conference Chairs
Dr. R.S. Sangwan: CIAB, Mohali
(E-mail: sangwan@ciab.res.in)
Dr. D.K. Sahoo: CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh (E-mail: debsahoo@imtech.res.in)
Prof. Anand Bachhawat: IISER, Mohali (E-mail: anand@iisermohali.ac.in)
Sponsors
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Organizers
CIAB, Mohali
IISER, Mohali
CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh
Venue
Knowledge City, Sector-81,
Mohali, Punjab (India)
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