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The 2nd International Biotechnology Conference

Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

Overview

Biotechnology has become the most prominent field of science in recent decades. This conference comes to cover and discover various disciplines of Biotechnology such as Medical, Pharmaceutical, Environmental, Agriculture Biotechnology along with the newly emerging, promising field, Bioinformatics.

An invitation to participate in one of the most important conferences in the field of biotechnology, in the presence of a group of American, Finnish, French, and Danish researchers. with a group of Egyptian scientists in various fields of biotechnology.

Poster preparation hints

First, a good poster should catch the audience’s eye and draw people in. That can be accomplished with an exciting title and attractive figures. Next, the poster should be readable from a distance. This means big font and fewer words. Further, the poster should be easily navigable and efficient; your questions, data, and conclusions should be clearly identified and interpreted in less than a couple of minutes.

The easiest way to prepare a poster is to use a simple PowerPoint slide. The poster size is 90 cm x 120 cm. The next are guidelines to prepare your content.

Sections of your poster

In almost all scientific posters you will find a title, author names and affiliations, introduction, methods, results, conclusions, and acknowledgments sections. Some other additions you might wish to include are a references section, contact information, and potentially a photograph of yourself. A photo can be very useful in the event that you will not be physically present at your poster at all times, so other participants can identify you. You may also wish to make creative use of a footer in your poster. This is a section where you can insert your references and contact information, and it is generally acceptable for the font here to be much smaller than in other poster sections, so you can include a lot more.

Font size: Making your poster readable

While we are talking about font, remember this: bigger is better! Your poster should be readable from several feet away. It can also be useful to use two different font styles; one for your section titles, and a different one for the body of those sections. This strategy helps your sections stand out and makes the entire poster more navigable.

Choose your content wisely

Remember that less is more! Posters should not look like a primary research article condensed into one big page. Your sections should be as concise as possible, communicating only the most important results to your audience. With a poster, you have the advantage of being able to verbally communicate your work, so you don’t need every little detail on the board.

Poster layout

While it’s good to let your ingenuity shine, and you generally have free reign over how you put your poster together, be aware that there are some particular styles recognized to work well. It is important that your readers can navigate your poster and follow the logical progression of your work, and you can accomplish this by employing a neat and organized format.

Background and color

One of the best ways to grab your audience’s attention is with the background and color of your poster. You can choose essentially any background, but two common approaches are either a solid color, or a “themed” background that is relevant to the work you are presenting. The latter is catchy but beware. A distracting background or clashing colors can take away from what should be the focus of your poster – the data and your story. If you choose a single-color background but want to add a bit more “flash,” you can include a subtle gradient (as is shown in all of our illustrations above) so that the color fades to a lighter or darker version of itself from the top of the poster to the bottom. Depending on the color you select for the background, you’ll want to make sure that the color of your font is compatible. Use high contrast between these colors so that your text is easily read. Similarly, be cognizant of audience members that are color-blind; avoiding red and green is a good idea for this reason but there are many other ways to make your poster more accessible.

Final thoughts

Though we’ve just presented some standard formatting guidelines for making a scientific poster, you shouldn’t hesitate to be creative. After all, your poster is a representation of your work and a reflection of you, so make it your own!

Scientific Commmitte

Mokhtar El-Zawahry, MD, PhD (Egypt)

Hala Eissa, Ph.D. (Egypt)

Mohamed Mustafa, Ph.D. (Egypt)

Hussein Sabit, Ph.D. (Egypt)

Sameh Hassanein, Phd (Egypt)

Nabil Awad, Ph.D. (Egypt)

Martin Malmsten, Ph.D. (Denmark)

Mariana van der Plas, PhD (Denmark)

Didier Montet, PhD (France)

Brice Sorli, PhD (France)

Pirta Hotulainen, PhD (Finland)

PR commmitte

Tahseen Shoala, PhD

Moez El-Saadany, PhD

Marwa Amer, PhD

Heba Radwan, PhD

Conference Agenda

Day One

Conference Agenda

Day One

Day 1: Feb. 15, 2022

TimeDetails
8:30-10:00Registration
10:00-10:30Opening Remarks:
H.E. Amr Ezzat SALAMA, Secretery General,
Association of Arab Universities.
H.E. Abdel-Kader ABDELKAREEM, Preseident of
MUST.
PLENARY

PLENARY SESSION
CHAIRPERSONS: ADEL EL-BELTAGY ANDMOKHTAR EL-ZAWAHRI

TimeDetails
10:30-10:55

Nadia ZAKHARY
Professor of Cancer Biology, NCI, Cairo University,
Former Minister of Scientific Research, Egypt.
Molecular Basis of Cancer

10:55-11:20

Adel EL-BELTAGY
Prof. of Plant Physiology, Former Minister of
Agriculture, Egypt.
Navigation towards the future.

11:20-11:45

Mokhtar ELZAWAHRI
Prof. of Molecular Medicine, College of
Biotechnology, MUST, Egypt.
Stem cells and regenerative medicine.

11:45-12:10

Naglaa ABDALLA
Prof. of Genetic Engineering, College of Agriculture,
Cairo University, Egypt.
Genome editing techniques in plants.

Coffee Break (12:10-12:30)

Day 1: Cont. Session I (Medical Biotechnology Chair Person: Wagida ANWAR and PIRTA HOTULANEN)

TimeDetails
12:30-12:50

Pirta HOTULAINEN
Ass. Prof. of Biomedical Science, University of
Helsinki, Finland.
Dendritic spines: The memory units of the brain.

12:50-13:10

Martin GÖTTE
Prof. of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of
Münster, Germany.
Syndecan-1 as a pathogenesis factor and
therapeutic target in breast cancer.

13:10-13:30

Wail ABUL-KHAIR
Prof. of Stem Cells and Immunology, Cairo
University, Egypt.
Stem cell research and medical applications.

13:30-13:50

Chandan K. SEN
Associate Vice President of Military & Applied
Research, Indiana University, USA.
Tissue nano transfection technology for in vivo
tissue reprogramming in regenerative medicine

13:50-14:10

Wagida ANWAR
Prof. of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
Ain Shams University, Egypt.
Genomic and Publich health.

14:10-14:20

Sponsor talk 1- Analysis

LUNCH BREAK/POSTER SESSION (14:20-15:10)

Day 1: Cont.Session II CHAIR PERSONS: MANSUR A. KHAN AND DIDIER MONTET

TimeDetails
15:10:15:30Elsayed E. WAGIH
Prof. of Virology, College of Agriculture, Alexandria
University, Egypt.
Antisense technology and its use in controlling
gene expression.
15:30-15:50Brice SORLI
Associate Prof. of Sensors and Associated Systems,
University of Montpellier, France.
Biosensors and bioelectronics: interest of FRID
technology.
15:50-16:10Mohamed ELHADIDY
Prof. of Biomedical Sciences, Zewail City for Science
and Technology, Egypt.
Application of microbial genomics as a one-stop-shop
epidemiological tracking of bacterial
pathogens from different ecological niches.
16:10-16:30Mansoor A. KHAN
Director of Research and Development, EMDA
International, Saudi Arabia.
Utilization of NGS in every science.
16:30-16:50COFFEE BREAK
16:50-17:10Noha RADWAN
Ass. Prof. of Clinical pathology, College of Medicine,
Cairo University, Egypt.
Could Sanger sequencing fill the gap in prognosis
of COVID 19 outcome?
DAY 1: CONT.
17:10-17:30Rehab ABDALLA
Adjunct Prof. and Postdoc fellow at the AUC, Guest
Scientist at the Max Plank Institute, Germany.
Meta-omics approaches to unravel Egypt’s
terrestrial and marine habitat unexplored microbial
communities and their metabolic potentials.
17:30-17:50Tahsin SHOALA
Associate Prof. of Nanobiotechnology in Plant
Pathology, College of Biotechnology, MUST, Egypt.
Nanobiotechnological Approach to Manage
Phytopathogens.
17:50-18:10Alexzander A. ASEA
Professor and Executive Director of the Precision
Therapeutics Protogenomics Diagnostics Center at
the University of Toledo College of Medicine, USA.
Use of Proteogenomics in Combination with AI and
ML in the Diagnosis of Triple-Negative Breast
Cancer.
18:10-18:30CONCLUDING REMARKS

 

Day 2: Feb. 16, 2022

TimeDetails
9:00-9:20Reception

SESSION III
CHAIR PERSONS: NABIL FIKRY AND EMAD EL-ZAYYAT

TimeDetails
9:20-9:50

Didier MONTET

Prof. of Food Safety, University of Montpellier, France.

9:50-10:10Mahmoud ABDELATY
Prof. of Quantum Information, Zewail City for Science
and Technology, Egypt.
Cyber security and its biological applications.
10:10-10:20Sponsor talk 2- Technoscientific
10:20-10:40Nabil FIKRY
Prof. of Gynecology, Head of Scientific Council, Ministry
of Interior, Egypt.
Breast cancer in pregnancy
10:40-11:00Gargi ROY
Prof. of Dental Genetics, Founder and Director at
KROYNAS Pvt. Ltd, India
Saliva: The new hope of the pandemic.
11:00-11:10Sponsor talk 3- Nawah Scientific
11:10-11:30Magda ASEM
Prof. of Clinical Pathology, NCI, Cairo University, Egypt.
Diagnostic and prognostic potential of several
Circulating MiRNAs in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Coffee Break (11:30 – 12:00)

Day 2: Cont.SESSION IV CHAIR PERSONS: OLA KHORSHID AND BRICE SORLI

TimeDetails
12:00-12:20

Ola KHORSHID
Prof. of Medical Oncology, Cairo University, Egypt.
Role of liquid biopsy in lung cancer.

12:20-12:40

Emad EL-ZAYYAT
Prof. of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology,
College of Science, Cairo University, Egypt.
Bee venom and its active component Melittin
synergistically potentiate the anticancer effect of
Sorafenib against HepG2 cells.

12:40-13:00

Ahmed EL-HASHASH
Prof. of Regenerative Medicine, University of
Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, USA.
Stem cell technology in lung repair, regeneration,
and disease: current applications and future
promise.

13:00-13:20

Menattallah ELSERAFY
Ass. Prof. of Genomics, Zewail City for Science and
Technology, Egypt.
Transcriptional analysis of nuclear-encoded
mitochondrial genes in eight neurodegenerative
disorders: the analysis of seven diseases in reference
to Friedreich’s ataxia.

13:20-13:40

Curigliano GIUSEPPE
Clinical Director, Division of Early Drug Development
for Innovative Therapy, European Institute of
Oncology, Italy.
Treatment of HER2 positive Metastatic Breast
Cancer.

13:40-14:00

Mohamed HEGAZY
Prof. of Cardiology, Cairo University, Egypt.
Cardiac glue: is it a dream or true?

LUNCH BREAK/POSTER SESSION (14:00 – 15:00)

Day 2: Cont.SESSION V CHAIR PERSONS: AMR EGAIZ ANDMOHAMED HEGAZY

TimeDetails
15:00:15:20

Amr EGAIZ
Prof. of Bioinformatics, College of Biotechnology,
MSA, Egypt.
Designing multi-epitope vaccine against
SARS-CoV-2 delta variant.

15:20:15:40

Mariena VAN DER PLAS
Associate Prof. of Health and Medical Science,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Host defense peptides in health and disease

15:40-16:00

Hussein SABIT
Prof. of Cancer Epigenetics, College of
Biotechnolgy, MUST, Egypt.
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated activation of CDH1
suppress metastasis of breast cancer in rats.

16:00-16:20

Ahmed M. ELZAWAHRY
Associate Prof. of Urology, Illinios University,
USA.
Cell-free DNA and its future role in diagnosis of
urinary tract cancer.

Coffee Break (16:20-16:40)

Day 2: Cont.SESSION VI Chair Persons: Mahmoud WAFIK AND Mohamed MOSTAFA

TimeDetails
16:40-17:00Mariam HAIKAL
Ass. Prof. of Microbiology, College of Pharmacy,
Cairo University, Egypt.
Orchestration between microalgae and
wastewater microbiome in photo-bioreactors
established for coking wastewater treatment.
17:00-17:20Mahmoud WAFIK
Prof. of Microbiology, College of Agriculture, Cairo
University, Egypt.
Biosynthesis and characterization of silver
nanoparticles produced by novel strains of
cyanobacteria.
17:20-17:40Moez ELSAADANY
Ass. Prof. of Biotechnology, College of
Biotechnology, MUST, Egypt.
Detection of Ochratoxins A in food production
using advanced Aptasensor.
17:40-18:00Roberto CIBOLDI
Technical specialist, Technopharmacy, Italy.
Biopharmaceuticals advances in research,
development and scaling up.

Concluding Remarks (18:20-18:40)

Conference Agenda

Day Two

Conference Agenda

Day Two

Registration
Fees & Payments

To register for the BioTech-2022, please fill out the registration form

Egyptian Undergrad Students

Fees* Early Bird (31/12/2021) => 350 LE

Late registration (after (31/12/2021)) => 400 LE

Egyptian Postgrad Students

Fees* Early Bird (31/12/2021) => 450 LE

Late registration (after (31/12/2021)) => 500 LE

Egyptian Staff Members

Fees* Early Bird (31/12/2021) => 500 LE

Late registration (after (31/12/2021)) => 550 LE

None-Egyptian Participants

Fees* Early Bird (31/12/2021) => 200 USD

Late registration (after (31/12/2021)) => 300 USD

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