Program
Monday, october 24
Tuesday, october 25
Wednesday, october 26
Thursday, october 27
Friday, october 28
8:00-
9:00
Registration
9:00-9:30
Workshops
Dr. Marco Baralle
“General Overview of the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) activities”
Plenary Conference Dr. Gustavo Viniegra "Solid-State Fermentation with yeast and bacteria"
Plenary Conference
Dr. Alfredo Herrera Estrella “Molecular Signaling in the Response to Injury of Trichoderma atroviride”
Plenary ConferenceDr. Sukhwinder Singh
"Exploring Wheat Biodiversity for Next Generation Climate-Ready Cultivar Development"
9:30-
10:00
Plenary conference Dr. Vittorio Venturi "Signaling and beneficial bacteria in the rice microbiome"
10:00-10:30
Oral presentation
Awards
10:30-11:00
Plenary conference Dr. Marco Baralle“Research and Capacity building for biopharmaceutical production”
Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
Plenary conference
MS Robert F. Burgoyne "UPLC & Mass Spectrometry Techniques for Protein Structure Characterization"
M.C. José Miguel Segura Candelas
“Applications of the Next Generation Sequencing in the Ion Torrent Platform”
Closing
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
Plenary conference Dra. Susana Lozano "Sc & Biotech early stimulation, divulgation and biosafety"
Plenary ConferencePhD. Nguyen (Win) Ly"Label Free Molecular Interaction Studies for the Advancement in Human Disease Research"
PhD. José Luis Avanzo
“Laboratory Automation: Solutions by Hamilton Robotics”
12:30-13:00
Ana Rivera Fuentes
“How Acoustic Cytometry can help with veterinary and aquaculture samples”
Symposium 1: "Bioelectrochemical approaches for environmental sciences and energy production" sponsored by CIDETEQ
Symposium 2: "Harnessing of biodiversity for food security and sustainable development", sponsored by MasAgro Biodiversity
Symposium 3: Nuclear and related techniques for soil conservation at watershed level, sponsored by IAEA.
13:00-13:30
PhD. Ananda M. Chakrabarty "Bacterial Proteins/Peptides as Anticancer Drugs: Clinical Trials and Intellectual Property Right Issues"
Symposium 1: ICGEB - Title PendingSymposium 2: ICGEB - Title PendingSymposium 3: ICGEB - Title Pending
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
Meal
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
Plenary conferenceDr. Luis Herrera Estrella "Engineering abiotic stress tolerance in plants"
Plenary ConferenceDr. Enrique Galindo Fentanes "Looking inside fermenters, measuring spots in mangoes and the science behind making foamy chocolate: multidiscipline in action"
PhD. Laura Albarellos
"The regulatory challenge of biotechnology in México"
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
Plenary ConferenceDr. Leobardo Serrano"Researchers turned into entrepreneurs to put in the market a biofungicide: the history of Fungifree"
Poster presentation
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
Opening
18:00-18:30
18:30-19:00
WELCOME
ITSON ART GALERY
19:00
DINNER
Oral Presentation Program
Poster Presentation Program
Symposium 1: Speakers/Title
PhD. Mariano Gutiérrez: Biotechnological approaches for depolluting soil and water with fungi exposed to a controlled electric current.
PhD. Nancy Velasco: Enhancing virulence of entomopathogenic fungus exposed to an electric current in a model system.
PhD. Luis Ortiz-Frade: Electron transfer for redox enzymes mediated with metal complexes for energy production.
PhD. Yolanda Reyes-Vidal: Energy production using bioelectrochemical systems.
Symposium 2: Speakers/Title
PhD. Kevin Pixley, MasAgro Leader and Program Director of Biodiversity and Genetic Resources CIMMYT
PhD. Pedro Figueroa López, Researcher of the experimental Wheat Program INIFAP Norman Borlaug
Symposium 3: Speakers/Title
PhD. Claudio Bravo Linares: Determination of soil erosion sources in forest catchments in central Chile using Compound-Specific Stable Isotope technique (CSSI)
PhD. Roberto Meigikos dos Anjos: Costal changes due to subglacial volcanic eruptions on Deception Island (West-Antarctica)
PhD. Hugo Velasco: Identification of suitable fingerprint elements to distinguish sedimentary sources in an agricultural catchment of Argentina
PhD. Olgioly Domínguez-Quintero: Diffuse reflectance mid-infrared spectroscopy: An economic alternative for soil evaluation analysis in countries with emergent economies.
Workshop title
Institution
Number of participants
Requirements
Surface Plasmon Resonance Technology for the applications in drug discovery, cancer research and nanobiotechnology
BIOSENSING
6
Metabolic characterization of Plant Growth Promoting Microorganisms
COLMENA
10
Analysis and Manual Curation of a Viral Genome with Importance in Aquaculture (Shrimp Farming)
ITSON
15
Basic knowledge of molecular biology and bioinformatics.
Digital PCR and their application
Thermo Fisher Scientific
12
Innovations in the analysis of genes and protein expression
BIORAD
Postgraduate students, researchers and / or laboratory technicians with or without knowledge in real-time PCR techniques and western blot.
Cell Analysis and measurement of water quality effect in an automatic platform
Merck
Postgraduate students or researchers.
Phenotyping wheat germplasm for identification features relevant to climate change
MasAgro-Biodiversity
and MasAgro-Wheat
20-25
Postgraduate in agronomy, plant physiology, agricultural biotechnology, biology, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, or other related area.
Basic Aspects of PCR and Qualitative Analysis Using Real Time PCR.
Probiotek
Basic knowledge of molecular biology.
If you are interested in one of these workshop, please send your CV, intention letter, and the title of the workshop to workshopBS16@gmail.com