Bangalore, India
2017-09-11 – 2017-09-13
Taj West End
Video & PDF Presentations are now available
The South Asia Biosafety Conference (SABC) is the preeminent regional gathering of scientists, regulators and other stakeholders who are interested in biotechnology applications for sustainable development, environmental risk assessment, and biosafety regulation in South Asia. This year’s conference was held at the Taj West End in Bangalore, India from September 11-13, 2017. Under the auspices of the South Asia Biosafety Program, SABC was co-organized by the ILSI Research Foundation and Biotechnology Consortium India Ltd, with cooperation from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Government of India) and other regional partners.
Missed the sessions?
View the video recordings of the presentations on Youtube. Click on the links below for the playlist for each session.
Inaugural Session, Plenary Session I, Plenary Session II, Lighting Round, Plenary Session III, Plenary Session IV, Plenary Session V
Congratulations to 1st Place
Poster Winner Sundaresha Siddappa!
Congratulations to Sundaresha Siddappa for his poster Transgenic Potato Conferring Field Resistance to Late Blight Difficulties in Generating Food Safety Data of Pure RB Protein winning first prize and receiving a two year membership for the International Society of Biosafety Research, a USD $500 cash prize, and an award certificate.
Congratulations to Michael Chhandama
for winning 2nd Place in the Poster Competition!
Congratulations to second place winner, Michael Chhandama for his poster on Estimation of Lipid Content from Stress Induced Microalgae for Biodiesel Production. He received a two year membership for the International Society of Biosafety Research, a USD $200 cash prize, and an award certificate.
Who Should Attend?
The South Asia Biosafety Conference is open to all scientists, academics, researchers and officials from industry, research institutions, universities, government departments and ministries.
What was new this year?
This year's program featured sessions on Soil and Plant Microbiomes; New Applications of Biotechnology: Focus on Forestry and Biofuels; Designing Confined Field Trials to Maximize Data Transportability; Best Practices for Public Sector Genetically Engineered Product Development Programs; the Intersection of the Cartagena Protocol and the Indian Biosafety Regulatory System. This year also included a lightning round for students and young scientists as well as three optional half day workshops.
Speakers
Dr. C. Appunu
ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute
Dr. Manju Bansal
Indian Institute of Science, India
Dr. Alok Das
ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research
Dr. Tomal Dattaroy
Reliance Industries Limited, India
Mr. Jambay Dorji
Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority, Bhutan
Dr. James Germida
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Aparna Islam
BRAC University, Bangladesh
Dr. Bhavanath Jha
Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, India
Dr. Shashi Kumar
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India
Dr. Atul Kumar Johri
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Dr. HsiangChun Lin
International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
Dr. Stephen Mayfield
University of California, San Diego, United States
Dr. Mathish Nambiar-Veetil
Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, India
Dr. Jasdeep Chatrath Padaria
National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, India
Dr. Jacob Parnell
Novozymes BioAg, United States
Ms. Surani Pathirana
Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, Sri Lanka
Dr. Jayashree Radha
Rubber Research Institute of India
P.H. Ramanjini Gowda
University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, India
Dr. Andrew Roberts
ILSI Research Foundation, United States
Dr. Shilpa Sharma
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Dr. Timothy Strabala
Environmental Protection Authority, New Zealand
Dr. John Teem
ILSI Research Foundation, United States
Dr. Yuichiro Tsuchiya
Nagoya University, Japan
Dr. K. Veluthambi
Madurai Kamaraj University, India