Participants Registration

EVENT OPENING

Chairperson: Manuela Elisabeta Sidoroff

10:00 – 10:15

ROMANIAN SOCIETY OF BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT BIOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES
Dr. Manuela Elisabeta Sidoroff, President of RSBB

10:15 – 10:30

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGIES-STRATEGIES, POLICIES AND SMART SPECIALISATION
Dr. Tudor Prisecaru, State Secretary, Romanian Ministry for Research, Innovation and Digitization

10:30 – 10:45

Dr. Mihaela Paun, General Director of INCDSB

10:45 – 11:15

ICGEB ROLE AND IMPACT ON BIOTECHNOLOGIES, LIFE SCIENCES AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Lawrence Banks, ICGEB

11:15 – 11:30

Coffee Break

Section A. MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGIES

Chairperson: Iris Maria Tusa

11:30 – 11:45

POLYMERIC COMPLEXES WITH POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES USED FOR TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION
Dana-Maria Miu, National Institute for Chemical Pharmaceutical Research & Development

11:45 – 12:00

OPTIMIZATION OF LAB BIOTECHNOLOGIES FOR PREPARATION OF NEW NATURAL SPONGE BIOMATERIALS FROM INDUSTRIAL RESIDUES FOR WOUND HEALING
Oana Craciunescu, National Institute of Research And Developement for Biolgical Sciences

12:00 – 12:15

COLLAGEN-BASED ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT WOUND DRESSING LOADED WITH MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES AND GALLIC ACID
Madalina Gaboreanu, Research Institute of the University of Bucharest—ICUB, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

12:15 – 12:30

THE FORMULATION OF HYDROPHILIC-HYDROPHOBIC BIOPOLYMER COMPOSITE SUPPORTS, A NEW PERSPECTIVE IN THE FIELD OF THERAPY OF SKIN INJURIES

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

SECTION B. BIOENGINEERING AND BIOPROCESSING

Chairperson: Simona Litescu

13:30 – 13:45

SUSTAINABLE BIOMASS PRODUCTION FROM DAIRY BY-PRODUCTS
Diana Pasarin, Institutul Național de Cercetare – Dezvoltare pentru Chimie și Petrochimie – ICECHIM

13:45 – 14:00

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHARMACOGNOSTIC AND PHYTOBIOLOGICAL STUDY OF PRUNUS SPINOSA SPECIES
Oana Apreutesei, National Institute Research and Development for Biological Sciences/“Stejarul” Research Centre for Biological Sciences

14:00 – 14:15

QUALITY OF PLANT-BASED FOOD SUPPLEMENTS AND RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONSUMPTION OF NON-COMPLIANT PRODUCTS
Ancuța Cristina Raclariu-Manolică, National Institute Research and Development for Biological Sciences/“Stejarul” Research Centre for Biological Sciences

14:15 – 14:30

EXPLORATION AND VALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL OF CAVERNICOLEAL MYCOBIOTA IN THE MEDICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL FIELD
Georgiana Grigore, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest

14:30 – 14:45

EVALUATION OF AGRO-INDUSTRIAL BY-PRODUCTS AS SUBSTRATES FOR BIOSURFACTANT PRODUCTION BY PSEUDOMONAS STRAINS
Roxana Madalina Stoica, National Institute for Chemical-Pharmaceutical Research and Development-ICCF

14:45 – 15:00

NEW PLANT BIOSTIMULANT BASED ON BIOGENIC SILICA NANOSTRUCTURES
Diana Constantinescu-Aruxandei, Institutul Național de Cercetare – Dezvoltare pentru Chimie și Petrochimie – ICECHIM

15:00 – 15:15

Coffee Break

SECTION C. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Chairperson:

15:15 – 15:30

MULTIFACETED PHENOTYPIC ADAPTATIONS OF GAMMARUS BALCANICUS TO CAVES: HYPOGEAN VERSUS EPIGEAN ECOTYPES
Octavian Pacioglu, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences

15:30 – 15:45

METAGENOMIC SNAPSHOT OF THE DANUBE DELTA RESERVOIR OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND ASSOCIATED MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS
Corneliu Ovidiu Vrâncianu, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences

POSTER SESSION

15:45-16:45

Conference wrap-up