Program Chair: Se-Kwon Kim, Director of Marine Bioprocess Research Center (MBPRC) at Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea Scientific Committee: Antonio Trincone Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Italian National Research Council, Italy Alexander Kharlamov Independent Researcher in Interventional Vascular Medicine and Nanobiotechnology Arun K. Bhunia Food MicrobiologyDepartment of Food ScienceDepartment of Comparative Pathobiology, Purdue University B. Sharma Biochemistry &Ex-Chairman, Department of BiochemistryEx-Coordinator Bansi D Malhotra Department of Biotechnology,Delhi Technological University, Indian Bharat Bhushan Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) Chutiwan Dechsakulwatana Institute of Marine Science, Burapha University, Thailand Chien-Sheng Chen National Central University, Taiwan Daniel E. Morse UCSB-MIT-Caltech Institute for Collaborative BiotechnologiesUniversity of California Do Vo Anh Khoa Department of Animal Sciences, Can Tho University, Viet Nam G.Narasimha Department of Virology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati Gaetano Valenza Processing unit of the Neuroscience Statistics ResearchLab, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (MA, USA) Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, USA Ipek Kurtboke University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Jin-Soo Kim Center for Genome Engineering, Institute for Basic Scienceand Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, South Korea John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University K.Navaneetha Pandiyaraj Surface Engineering Laboratory, Department of PhysicsSri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology Malihe S. Poormasjedi M Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima University Masroor Ellahi Babar T.I. Science and Technology,Virtual University of Pakistan Mohamed T. Rakha AVRDC- The World Vegetable Center MOHAMMAD FAISAL Department of Botany & Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University Mohammad Reza Daliri Iran University of Science and Technology N. Nikolaev Laboratory of biological mass spectrometry at the Institute of Biochemical Physics Russian Academy of Sciences Narendra Reddy Center for Emerging Technologies Jain University Naveen Kumar Division of Surgery, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Indian Noriaki MINAKAWA Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima University Prasun Kumar CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road campus, Delhi, India Qingzhong Yu U.S. National Poultry Research Center (USNPRC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Research Service (ARS), RAM CHANDRA Environmental Microbiology DivisionCSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) Rimantas Kodzius Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) SABU THOMAS International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarshini Hills P. O. Santi M Mandal Anti-Infective Research Lab, Department of Microbiology, Vidyasagar University Shaukat Ali National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB), National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) Tariq Mahmood Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Central Punjab Thomas Maskow Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig Timothy Saunders Mechanobiology Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore Tobias Haber PeterOsypka Institute for Pacing and Ablation at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences Tomonori SONOKI Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University V.R.Singh Sensors and Biomedical Measurements & Standards National Physical laboratory Venkataraman Dharuman Department of Bioelectronics and Biosensors, School of Life SciencesAlagappa University Vishal Gupta Plant Transformation Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Yanika Kowitlawakul Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Study/Yong LooLin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore Yoshikazu Ohya Department of Integrated Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Japan