Conference "Biotechnology: Ecology of large cities" and exhibition "World of Biotechnology-2010"

Moscow International Scientific and Practical Conference "Biotechnology: Ecology of large cities"
and the VIII International Specialized Exhibition "World of Biotechnology – 2010"
held within the framework of the Moscow International Congress
"Biotechnology: state and prospects of development"
(March 15-17, 2010, Moscow, Novy Arbat, 36/9,
Moscow Government Building)

The main thematic areas of the conference:

Section 1. Problems of ecology of large cities. Biodiversity and sustainability of urban ecosystems
Supervisor: Corresponding member. RAS S.A. Shoba, Dean of the Faculty of Soil Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University

Section 2. Ecology of water of megacities
Head: S.V. Khramenkov, General Director of MGUP "Mosvodokanal", President of the Russian Association of Water Supply and Sanitation.

Section 3. The air environment of the metropolis
Supervisor: Professor V.O. Popov, Director of the A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Section 4. Ecology of megapolis soils
Subsection 4.1. Bioremediation of contaminated soils and soils
Supervisors: Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.A. Shoba, Dean of the Faculty of Soil Science, Head of the Department  Geography of Soils of Lomonosov Moscow State University; Professor, D.B.N.B. Gradova, Department of Biotechnology of the D.I. Mendeleev Moscow State Technical University.

Subsection 4.2. Microbiological monitoring, preparations and fertilizers for urban landscapes
Head: Academician RASKHN I.A. Tikhonovich, Director of the National Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology of the Russian Agricultural Academy, St. Petersburg.

Section 5. Biotechnological waste processing. Environmental and engineering problems
Supervisors: Professor D.A. Baranov, Rector of the Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering; Academician I.A. Rogov, President of the Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology; Corresponding member. RAS V.G. Sister, Head of the Department of "Engineering Ecology of Urban Economy", Director of the Research Institute "Technological Processes and Equipment of Alternative Energy" MGUE; Chairman of the Board of Directors of ROAO "Rosagrobioprom", Candidate of Technical Sciences S.V. Kryukov.

Subsection 5.1. Engineering and environmental problems of megacities
Supervisor: Corresponding member. RAS V.G. Sister, Head of the Department of "Engineering Ecology of Urban Economy", Director of the Research Institute "Technological Processes and Equipment of Alternative Energy" MGUE.

Subsection 5.2. Biotechnological waste processing
Heads: Academician of RASKHN I.A. Rogov, President of the Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology; Candidate of Technical Sciences S.V. Kryukov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ROAO "Rosagrobioprom".

Section 6. Biofuels
Managers: corresponding member. S.D. Varfolomeev, Director of the N.M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; E.B. Balashov, Deputy Head of the Department of Science and Industrial Policy of Moscow.

Section 7. Biodegradable polymers and bio-damages
Supervisors: Professor A.A. Popov, Deputy Director of the N.M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor M.I. Shtilman, D.I. Mendeleev Russian Technical Technical University.

Section 8. Environmental education and enlightenment
Supervisors: Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences G.A. Yagodin, D.I. Mendeleev Russian State Technical University; Academician of RASKHN E.I. Titov, Rector of Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology; Professor T.V. Ovchinnikova, Head of the Scientific and Educational Center  Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry named after Academicians M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences; representative of the Moscow Department of Education (under approval).

Section 9. Allergy problems in the metropolis
Heads: Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences R.M. Khaitov, Director of the SSC RF Institute of Immunology of the FMBA; A.I. Martynov, Deputy. Director of the SSC RF Institute of Immunology FMBA.

Section 10. Monitoring of water flows, atmosphere, soils
Supervisors: Professor I.N. Kurochkin, Lomonosov Moscow State University Professor V.K. Donchenko, Director of the St. Petersburg Research Center for Environmental Safety of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Round table. Connection of ecology and epidemiology Head: Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences A.M. Egorov, Head.
Laboratory of Engineering Enzymology of the Chemical Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.  

Round table. Biotechnology and sustainable development of the metropolis. Criteria and indicators
Heads: Candidate of Economics L.A. Bochin, Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection of Moscow; Head of the Department  Ecology of megacities of the D.I. Mendeleev Russian State Technical University;  member-correspondent. RAS N.P. Tarasova, Director  Institute of Chemistry and Problems of Sustainable Development of D.I. Mendeleev Russian State Technical University.

Round table. Legislation and regulations in the field of ecology
Chairman: Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation or the Moscow City Duma (under approval) Co-Chairman: I.A. Shiryaeva, beginning. Management of the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection of Moscow.

Acceptance of abstracts until January 30, 2010 (registration rules are available on the Congress website). 

Competition of young scientists (terms of participation – on the website Congress).

VIII Specialized exhibition "WORLD OF BIOTECHNOLOGY - 2010"

The theme of the exhibition:

• Processes and devices for biotechnological production and laboratory research.
• Laboratory and analytical equipment and bioanalytical complexes.
• The whole range of biological products for the pharmaceutical and food industries, agriculture, veterinary medicine, geology, industrial production, as well as bioagents for environmental protection and restoration.
• Biologically active additives.
• Test systems for the determination of alcohol and narcotic substances.
• Biocatalysis and biocatalytic technologies.
• Nutrient media.
• Biologics for medicine and cosmetology, as well as finished products based on them.
• Alternative energy sources, including solar, wind, geothermal, nano-molecular energy converters.
• Industrial and laboratory safety.

Traditionally, an international competition is held: "The best products of the specialized exhibition "World of Biotechnology 2010"".