AFOB Regional Seminar on- BIOBUSINESS & BIOECONOMY IN INDIA- THE EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES, November 25-26, 2016

IIT Kharagpur
November 25-26, 2016 [Friday & Saturday].
Venue: NKN Virtual Studio, Sir JC Bose Laboratories Complex

November 25 (Friday), 2016

Registration- 15.00 to 18.00 hr-

Inaugural program- 18.00 to 19.00 hr-

Welcome address by Professor SK Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur, Head of the Department, Biotechnology

Address by Professor VS Bisaria, IIT Delhi, President, AFOB- India RBO

Address by Professor S Dey, , IIT Kharagpur, Vice President, AFOB- India RBO

Address by Professor PP Chakrabarti, Director, IIT Kharagpur

Vote of thanks, Professor TK Maiti, , IIT Kharagpur, Secretary, AFOB- India RBO

Tea break

Plenary talk- 19.00-19.30: Professor Sudhansu Vrati, Executive Director, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, (DBT/UNESCO), Faridabad. Rotavirus vaccine development: The India story.

November 26 (Saturday), 2016

Technical session-I: Healthcare Biobusiness (10.00- 12.30)

Dr. Goutam Ghosh, Senior Vice President, Panacea Biotech, New Delhi. Fast-tracking the Vaccine & Biopharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing in India - the Opportunities and Challenges

Dr. R Gaikaiwari, Managing Director, HighTech Bioscience India Ltd, Pune. Biocatalysis.

Tea break: 11.00-11.30 hr

Professor DK Mitra, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Healthcare immunotechnology: multidisciplinary convergence

Professor Shyamol Roy, Vice Chancellor, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, Rationally designed multi-antigen T cell epitope-enriched DNA vaccine against Leishmaniasis

Technical session-II: Biodiversity, IPR, Innovation & Bioentrepreneurship (12.30- 13.30) Dr. Goutam Bhattacharya, M/s K & S Partners, Hyderabad. Innovation and intellectual properties

Prof. (Dr) A.K.Ghosh, Director, Centre for Environment & Development. Bio-prospecting and future economic growth in India

Lunch break- 13.30- 14.15 (Sir JC Bose Laboratories Complex)

Technical session-III: Agri-Food & Energy Biobusiness (14.15- 15.15 hr)

Professor VS Bisaria, IIT Delhi, Bioethanol technology

Dr. SK BardhanRoy, Krishi rasayan Pvt Ltd, Kolkata. Biobusiness for farm sector

Panel discussion (15.30-16.15 hr)

Industry-Institute consortium for promoting biobusiness- Asian networking

Tea break: 16.15-17.00 hr

Poster session for Research students 16.30-18.00 hr

All concerned are requested to visit- www.afob-india.org for updates.