BIOSCIENCES

19th IBCAST Biosciences (BS) Module aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of “Biosurveillance, Microbial Detection and Countermeasures”. This may result in exploring collaborations and to spark new ideas, with the aim of developing new projects and exploring new technologies.

The sub themes includes

• Components and tool of effective biosurveillance program
• Biosurveillance utility, effectiveness and challenges
• Process of sample collection, analysis , interpretation and dissemination of data
• GIS mapping and disease prediction modeling
• Zoonotic and vector borne emerging / reemerging infectious diseases
• Factors contributing to emergence / re emergence of infectious diseases with special emphasis on COVID-19
• Biological risk assessment
• Recent innovations, trends, concerns and practical challenges in lab and field based biodetection technologies
• Advancement made in the treatment, vaccine development, control / prevention of microbes and their vectors