The conference is also promoted by the International Society for Environmental Biotechnology (ISEB), the Environmental Biotechnology section of the Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB), the Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (SIMGBM), the Italian Society of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology (SIMGBM),  the International Association on Mediterranean Agroindustrial Wastes (IAMAW), and the Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology section of the Technology Platform SusChem Italy.

Its overall aim is to explore the advances, frontiers and applications of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology in the modern area of the knowledge-based bio and green economy. In particular, the conference will focus on the sustainable decontamination of polluted habitats, water resource purification and reuse, biofixation of climate change-inducing gases and the production of biobased chemicals, materials and fuels from biowaste or/and via the exploitation of novel microbes from non conventional or impacted habitats. These are aspects of modern Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology which should enable this forum to address several of the major Europe 2020 priorities and to contribute to build up a more sustainable and competitive knowledge-based economy in Europe and in the Partner Countries.

A dynamic and R&D-oriented program, highly qualified speakers and scientists from academia and industry as well as the opportunity to publish the best papers presented as full papers in the international journal New Biotechnology (IF 2.0) will be other major features of the event.

Low registration fees, awards for excellent young scientists together with the opportunity to publish your work in a peer-reviewed international journal have been planned to facilitate and better valorize your participation in EMB2012.

Source: Email by Fabio Fava (Chair of the Environmental Biotechnology section of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB)  www.efb-central.org/

Date:
From: 10 April 2012
To: 12 April 2012