Topic #1 – Environmental Microbiology & Biotechnology
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Emergent contaminants
Microbes and Climate change
Biotransformation
Blue Biotechnology
Green Biotechnology
Sustainability
One Health
Challenges for the Green Deal
Natural Resources
Topic #2 – Food Microbiology & Biotechnology
Food safety and food security
Food quality
Next generation challenges and innovation in food biotechnology
Food packaging and transporting
One Health
Topic #3 – Health Biotechnology
Biopharmaceuticals and Biomaterials
Design and delivery of new therapeutic drugs
Diagnostic tools
Regenerative Medicine
New biopharmaceutical approaches: advanced therapies, vaccines engineering
Demand for new or improved technologies
Topic #4 – Health Microbiology
Microbiota in Health and Disease
Antimicrobial resistance
Microbe-Host interactions
One Health
Public Health Microbiology
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Infection control
Topic #5 – Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Physiology
Gene Expression and Regulation
Genome Dynamics
Microbial Metabolism and Physiology
Signal Transduction
Stress Responses
Transport Systems
Biofilms, Motility and other microbial cooperation
Topic #6 – Bioprocess Engineering
Continuous Manufacturing
Bioprocess miniaturization and automation
Biorefineries
Bioreactors, Scaling-up (scaling-down) strategies
Process Analytical Technology (PAT)
Downstream processing (Separation technologies, Membrane processes, Adsorption…)
New products (Stem Cell, viruses, VLPs, antibody-drug conjugates…)
Topic #7 – New and Emerging Technologies
Omics
Nanotechnologies
Systems Biology
Artificial intelligence and machine learning, Industry 4.0, digital twins, IoT (internet of things)
Digital data
Topic #8 – From Science to Society
Knowledge and technology transfer
Entrepreneurship
Sustainability and circular (bio)economy,
Teaching & Communication & Career development
Topic #9 – Biological Resources centers and Networks
COST ACTIONS
EATRIS – ATMP platform
MIRRI, the pan-European research infrastructure for microbial resources.