ISBR 2025: Relevant topics of ISBR Symposium
| Science communication | Advancing social license, public perception, science communication and a science-based understanding of bio-innovation. |
| Capacity building | Opportunities, challenges and advancements in global capacity building and knowledge-building for emerging technologies and bio-innovation. |
| Sustainability and food security | Leveraging bio-innovation for improved climate, sustainability, and food security. Understanding the socio-economic considerations of emerging technologies. |
| Risk Analysis | Risk analysis, risk assessment, risk communication, and risk management for bio-innovation. Examples include hazard assessment, exposure assessment, problem formulation, data transportability, etc. |
| Global regulations, policy, and governance | Exploring the global landscape of regulations, policy, and governance of bio-innovation. |
| Genetically modified (GM) crops | Scientific advancements, challenges, and regulatory considerations related to genetically modified crops. Examples include food, feed, and environmental safety assessment, integrated pest management, new-product offerings, etc. |
| Genome editing in plants: | Scientific advancements, challenges, risk assessment, and regulatory considerations related to genome editing in plants, including Plant Breeding Innovation (PBI), New Breeding Techniques (NBTs), New genomic techniques (NGTs), etc. |
| Gene Drives | Scientific advancements, challenges, risk assessment, and regulatory considerations related to gene drives and super- mendelian inheritance. |
| Animal Biotechnology | Scientific advancements, challenges, risk assessment, and regulatory considerations related to animal biotechnology, including gene edited animals, genetically modified animals, etc. |
| Agricultural biologicals | Scientific advancements, challenges, risk assessment, and regulatory considerations for agricultural biologicals, including> genetically modified microbes, gene edited microbes, as well as other microbial, biochemical, semiochemical, and biological-based solutions. |
| Other Bio-innovation | Other bio-innovation topics highlighting scientific advancements, risk assessment, or regulatory considerations. Examples include industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, genetics-based health biotechnology, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in sustainable bio-innovation, etc. |
Important Dates
January 15, 2025
Open call - Abstracts for oral presentations and posters
January 15, 2025
Early Bird Registration opens
March 10, 2025
Call for Photo Competition opens
March 15, 2025
Call for Student scholarships closes
March 17, 2025
Booking for Symposium Dinner opens
May 15, 2025
Call for Abstracts for oral presentations and posters closes. EXTENDED to May 15, 2025
June 15, 2025
Notification to authors
June 15, 2025
Regular Registration
June 30, 2025
Presenters to be registered
October 26, 2025
Photo Competition closes
November 2, 2025
Symposium begins
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