International Conferences

Recommended Conferences for microbial biofuels

microbial biofuels

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As per available reports about 1 national symposiums is presently dedicated exclusively to microbial biofuels. 

Fossil fuels like coal and oil have played a critical role in humanity’s recent history, providing a vast energy source which has fueled much of society’s development and industrialization. These fuels are still the primary source of energy for the world’s developed nations, and yet it is agreed that these traditional sources of energy cannot continue to power humanity’s growth into the future. The demand for oil production is at an all-time high, and will only increase as developing nations continue to grow.
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Scope and Importance: 

Many experts predict that the rate of world oil production has already peaked, and that it will only decrease from now onwards as fewer and fewer oil reserves are discovered. Microbial biofuel production is already in use, principally in the form of sugar fermentation by yeast to produce ethanol. Although many microbes have been used in ethanol production, the yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae is primarily used in industry, using starch and sugars from plants as the starting material for the process .The most common feedstocks (carbon source utilized by the microbes) are agricultural products which can easily be processed to create the simple sugars needed for fermentation. This is primarily corn in the United States, wheat in the European Union, and sugar cane in Brazil. Ethanol fermentation by S. cerevisiae is primarily done via the standard glycolysis pathway. In the case of corn and other starch-containing plants, the simple sugars necessary are formed via the hydrolysis of starch to yield monosaccharide subunits, whereas the sugars in sugarcane are hydrolyzed only once and then go straight into the pathway. In the process, a single molecule of glucose is oxidized to two molecules of pyruvate. Anaerobic conditions are required so that molecular oxygen is not available for use as an electron acceptor, and instead pyruvate must be used as the terminal electron acceptor. This fermentative process involves the decarboxylation of pyruvate to form carbon dioxide and acetaldehyde, and the subsequent reduction of acetaldehyde to produce ethanol. Ethanol fermentation by yeast also helps to address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, although it does not represent a perfect solution from an environmental perspective either. All biofuels with a positive NEB should theoretically emit less carbon dioxide, because the process of carbon fixation occurring within the growing plants should counterbalance the carbon dioxide emissions of both the invested fossil fuel energy and the combustion of ethanol. However, in reality the nitrogen-rich fertilizer used to sustain the plants and the addition of extra plant matter into the soil supports communities of bacteria that produce nitrous oxide, a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Considering this entire system, producing ethanol via corn fermentation emits approximately 88% of the greenhouse gas content of gasoline yielding the same amount of energy. This mediocre improvement, coupled with the other environmental implications such as pesticides, make most current ethanol fermentation techniques of limited use, although they are nevertheless a positive alternative to fossil fuels.
 

Market Analysis-

An overview of global biofuels is provided by a number of reports (included in the EBTP Reports Database. In August 2013, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance GRFA announced an interactive map showing the current mandate and planned targets for biofuel production in countries across the globe. The GRFA forecasts that global fuel ethanol production will exceed 90 billion liters in 2014. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the US produced more than 13.3 billion gallons of ethanol in 2013 (slightly up on the 2012 figure). Various projections for global growth of biofuels production to 2020 have been made by international organisations, independent consultants and biofuels associations. The PEW Trusts report Who's winning the clean energy race? 2012 indicates that the US is currently the world leader in biofuel investments with $1.5bn invested in 2012. However, globally, investment in biofuels fell 47% between 2011 and 2012.

Conferences :

1.   2nd World Congress and Expo on Applied Microbiology,
October 31- November 2, 2016  Istanbul, Turkey

2.      Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs Conference,
May 12-13, 2016  Chicago, USA

3.      Infection Prevention and Control Conference,
Aug 1-2, 2016  Frankfurt, Germany

4.      Human Papillomavirus Conference,
May 2-3, 2016  Chicago, USA

5.      Lupus Conference,
Oct 27-28, 2016  Chicago, USA

6.      Allergy Conference,
March 29-30, 2016  Valencia, Spain

7.      Mycology Conference,
Sept 12-14, 2016  San Antonio, USA

8.      Medical Parasitology Conference,
Oct 17-19, 2016  Houston, USA

9.      4^th HIV/AIDS, STDs & STIs Conference,
Oct 3-5, 2016, Miami, USA

10.  5^th Virology Conference,
Dec 1-3, 2016, Baltimore, USA

11.  2^nd Influenza Conference,
Sept 12-14, 2016  Berlin, Germany

12.  2^nd Parasitology Conference,
Oct 10-12, 2016  Manchester, UK

13.  6^th Euro Virology Conference,
March 10-12, 2016  Madrid, Spain

14.  3^rd Hepatitis and Liver Diseases Conference,
Oct 17-19, 2016  Dubai, UAE

15.  4^th Epidemiology & Emerging Diseases Conference,
Oct 3-5, 2016 London, UK

16.  2^nd Flu Conference,
Nov 17-19, 2016  San Francisco, USA

17.  3^rd Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Conference,
July 11-12, 2016  Brisbane, Australia

18.  European Infectious Diseases Conference,
Aug 1-3, 2016  Frankfurt, Germany

19.  4^th Bacteriology and Infectious Diseases Conference,
May 16-18, 2016  San Antonio, USA

20.  Infectious Diseases and Diagnostic Microbiology Conference,
Oct 3-5, 2016  Vancouver, Canada

21.  2^nd Retroviruses and Novel Drugs Conference,
June 30-Jul 1, 2016  Capetown, South Africa

22.  72^nd Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Conference,
San Antonio, USA

23.  26^th European Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Conference, Istanbul, Turkey

24.  Infection Prevention and Control Conference, Tübingen, Germany

25.  17^th Infectious Diseases Conference, Hyderabad, India

26.  34^th Annual Infectious Diseases Conference, Sacramento, California

27. ASM-Microbe 2016

28. 17th International Conference MPMI

29. MSBJ Annual Meeting

30. Problems in Listeriosis Conference

Socities :

1. American society for Micro Biology
2. Society for General Micro Biology
3. Swiss Society for Micro Biology
4. Society for applied Microbiology
5. International Union of Microbiological societies
6. Federation of European Microbiological Societies

Companies :

• Gilead Sciences, Inc.
• Amgen, Inc.
• Celgene Corporation
• Biogen Idec, Inc.
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Illumina, Inc.
• BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.
• Agilent Technologies, Inc.

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