Biotechnology and Health Meetings: Spain is the place to go this autumn
Spain is the venue of two major European conferences in autumn. The first one is the 13th European Congress on Biotechnology to be held in Barcelona on 16 to 19 September. This will be followed by the European Conference on Synthetic Biology (ECSB) in Costa Brava on 24 to 29 November.
The Biotech Conference’s main theme this year is Symbiosis (Science, Industry and Society). In additi
on, other themes on Health & Medicine, Functional Genomics & Systems Biology, & Green Biotechnology will also be addressed. The conference always draws big names in the field of biotechnology. Among this year’s plenary speakers are Prof. Svante Päävo, head of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics of the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and Prof. Donald Hilvert, director of the Hilvert Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. Under Health & Medicine, sessions on targeted medicines, nanobiotechnology, and gene delivery systems will especially be relevant for medical researchers.
The scope of ECSB is narrower since it deals with the relatively new, cutting-edge field of synthetic biology. This year’s theme is on Design, Programming and Optimisation of Biological Systems. However, the potential application of synthetic biology in our society is enormous “with its effects being felt across a range of activities such as the provision of healthcare, environmental protection and remediation to the construction of smarter more ubiquitous bio-integrated computing systems…” Topics on genomics, natural and directed evolution, and cell cycles & circuits promise to be especially interesting.
Both conferences are supported by the European Science Foundation, the European Federation of Biotechnology and several industry sponsors consisting of global movers in the field of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
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